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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cambridge, Massachusetts campus has a diverse and varied architecture, reflecting its hundred years history.^[1] Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments and 53 interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programs. ... Shown within Cambridgeshire Geography Status: City (1951) Region: East of England Admin. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ...

The organization of building numbers on campus may appear random, but there is some order to it and it is believed to roughly correspond to the order in which the buildings were built. Buildings 1-10 were the original main campus, with building 10, the location of the Great Dome, designed to be the main entrance. Buildings 1-8 are arranged symmetrically around building 10, with odd-numbered buildings to the west and even-numbered buildings to the east.

The east side of campus has "the 6s", several connecting buildings that end with the digit 6 (buildings 6, 16, 26, 36, 56 and 66, with building 46 across the street from 36). The 30s buildings run along Vassar street on the north side of main campus. Buildings that are East of Ames Street are prefixed with an E (e.g. E52, the Sloan Bulding); those West of Massachusetts Avenue generally start with a W (e.g., W20, the Stratton Student Center).

Boston Tech (1865-1916)

MIT's was founded and first held classes in the Back Bay of Boston. Back Bay is the name of several places and neighborhoods in the world, including: Back Bay, Boston Back Bay, New Brunswick This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ...

MacLaurin Buildings (1916-1940)

Frieze on Building 2 dedicated to Newton

The first buildings constructed on the Cambridge campus are known officially as the Maclaurin buildings, completed in 1916, after Institute president Richard Maclaurin who oversaw their construction. Designed by William Welles Bosworth, who based his plans to some extent on studies developed by the noted alumnus and hydraulic engineer John Ripley Freeman, these imposing buildings were built of concrete, a first for a non-industrial — much less university — building in the U.S.^[2] Bosworth's design was drawn so as to admit large amounts of light through exceptionally large windows on the first and second floors, many internal windows—not only on office doors but above door-level, and skylights over huge stairwells. Newton Tower at MIT Photograph taken by Jackson Frakes. ... Newton Tower at MIT Photograph taken by Jackson Frakes. ... Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [ OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science. ... Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1870 - 1920), was a U.S. educator and physicist. ...

Killian Court, which is at the center of the Bosworth's design, was originally paved, but was converted into a park-like area of grass and trees in the late 1920s. Killian Court is used for the annual Commencement ceremoney.

The friezes of the marble-clad buildings are carved in large Roman letters with the names of Aristotle, Newton, Franklin, Pasteur, Lavoisier, Faraday, Archimedes, da Vinci, Darwin, and Copernicus; each of these names is surmounted by a cluster of appropriately related names in smaller letters. Lavoisier, for example, is placed in the company of Boyle, Cavendish, Priestley, Dalton, Gay Lussac, Berzelius, Woehler, Liebig, Bunsen, Mendelejeff [sic], Perkin, and van't Hoff. Aristotle (Greek: AristotélÄ“s) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. ... Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [ OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ... Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist. ... Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. ... Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. ... Archimedes (Greek: ) (c. ... Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15,1452 to May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, and painter. ... Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change, at the same time proposing the scientific theory that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs. ... Nicolaus Copernicus (in Latin; Polish Mikołaj Kopernik, German Nikolaus Kopernikus - February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and economist who developed a heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system in a form detailed enough to make it scientifically useful. ...

The great dome, which is featured in most publicity shots, is modeled on the Pantheon in Rome. The dome - accessed on the fifth floor - was to house the Institute's library and still today is the home of the Barker Library. ^[3]

On the north side of Killian Court is the so-called Infinite Corridor. It connects Building 7, with its smaller dome, surmounting what is known as "Lobby 7" (after its building number) to Building 8 and serves as a main artery connecting east campus with west campus. Building 7, which is adjacent to Massachusetts Avenue, is a popular entrance as well as the official address of the entire Institute. The Infinite Corridor is the hallway, 251 meters (825 feet) long, that runs through the main building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

Walker Memorial

East Campus dormitory

Senior House

President's House

Post-war Expansion (1940-1990)

The Green Building behind a sculpture, The Great Sail.

Over the years, MIT has made an effort to bring noted architects to campus for particular commissions. Image File history File linksMetadata MIT-Green-Building. ... Image File history File linksMetadata MIT-Green-Building. ...

Dormitories

Alvar Aalto, the Finish architect, designed Baker House (commissioned in 1946) Finlandia Hall. ...

Student Life

Eero Saarinen designed the MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium(1955). The Stratton Student Center was completed in the mid 1960s. Saarinens Gateway Arch frames The Old Courthouse, which sits at the heart of the city of Saint Louis, near the rivers edge. ... Exterior. ... Kresge Auditorium from rear, looking toward I. M. Peis Green Building. ...

I.M. Pei

I. M. Pei, a graduate from MIT's Department of Architecture (class of '40), designed a number of MIT buildings, including the Green Building (Building 54), headquarters of the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science Department and the tallest building on campus; the Dreyfus Building (Building 18), the Chemistry Department; the Landau Building (Building 66), the Chemical Engineering Department; the Weisner Building (Building E15), the Media Laboratory, whose tiled exterior was designed by Kenneth Noland; and the master plan for the southeast corner of the central campus. The Louvre Pyramid, Paris Ieoh Ming Pei (Chinese: 貝聿銘; Pinyin: Bèi Yùmíng; b. ... Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Kenneth Noland (born April 10, 1924) is an American painter. ...

Building 20

Building 20 was erected hastily during World War II as a temporary building that housed the historic Radiation Laboratory. Over the course of fifty-five years, its "temporary" nature allowed research groups to have more space, and to make more creative use of that space, than was possible in more respectable buildings. Professor Jerome Y. Lettvin once quipped, "You might regard it as the womb of the Institute. It is kind of messy, but by God it is procreative!"^[4][5] The Radiation Laboratory or often RadLab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was in operation from October 1940 until December 31, 1945. ... Jerome Ysroael Lettvin is a cognitive scientist and professor Emeritus of Electrical and Bioengineering and Communications Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ...

Evolving Campus (1990-present)

A major building effort has been underway for several years in the wake of a $2 billion development campaign.

Student Life

Simmons Hall (designed by Steven Holl), built in response to the freshmen-on-campus Krueger settlement stipulation, opened in 2002. The Zesiger sports and fitness center (Z-Center), featuring an Olympic-class swimming pool, also opened in 2002. Simmons Hall. ... Steven Holls design for Simmons Hall of MIT won the Harleston Parker Medal in 2004. ...

Research

Building 46 (designed by Charles Correa) which houses the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research opened in November 2005. The Broad Institute opened its new headquarters in May 2006. The Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center opened in March, 2004. Charles Correa is an Indian architect, Planner, activist, theoretician and a fundamental figure in the world-wide panorama of the contemporary architecture. ... The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is, along with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the department of cognitive science, one of the three neuroscience groups at MIT. It is run by Nobel Prize laureate Susumu Tonegawa. ... The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a research and teaching center, which conducts Integrated Research in neuroscience, molecular neurobiology, cognitive science, computation and related areas. ... The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, formerly the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research (WICGR), is a multidisciplinary institution dedicated to fulfilling the potential of genomics for the biomedical sciences. ... May 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → May 1, 2006 (Monday) Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association outraged Vatican by planning to ordain another bishop, Liu Xinhong in Anhui Province. ... Gehrys most famous work, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Canada) is an architect known for his sculptural approach to building design. ... Stata Center Building 32 at Night View from a window The Ray and Maria Stata Center is a 430,000-ft² (40,000 m²) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

Technology Square

Whitaker School & Medical Center

Artwork

Like many colleges and universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sculptures and other art-related installations scattered across its campus. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments and 53 interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programs. ...