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Imagining MIT : designing a campus for the twenty-first century / William J. Mitchell ; afterword by Charles M. Vest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Campus planning--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Campus planning.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Buildings.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche.
- Contents:
- The American campus
- William Welles Bosworth: Taylorism and classicism
- Postwar pragmatism
- Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen: midcentury modernism
- Kevin Roche: Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center
- Steven Holl: Simmons Hall
- Frank Gehry: Stata Center
- Charles Correa: Brain And Cognitive Sciences Complex
- Fumihiko Maki: Media Laboratory
- Planning a campus in real time
- Charles M. Vest, afterword: transforming the MIT campus-a personal journey.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09868-3
- 9786612098680
- 0-262-27999-1
- 9780262134798 (hbk.)
- OCLC:
- 290589282
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