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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822767303321

Autore

Mitchell William J (William John), <1944-2010.>

Titolo

Imagining MIT : designing a campus for the twenty-first century / / William J. Mitchell ; afterword by Charles M. Vest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-09868-3

9786612098680

0-262-27999-1

9780262134798 (hbk.)

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

378.744/4

Soggetti

Campus planning - Massachusetts - Cambridge

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.