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Autore |
Mitchell William J (William John), <1944-2010.> |
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Titolo |
Imagining MIT : designing a campus for the twenty-first century / / William J. Mitchell ; afterword by Charles M. Vest |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007 |
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1-282-09868-3 |
9786612098680 |
0-262-27999-1 |
9780262134798 (hbk.) |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Campus planning - Massachusetts - Cambridge |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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