Interior view, with the MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra. Kresge Auditorium is an auditorium building for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located at 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by the noted architect Eero Saarinen, with ground-breaking in 1953 and dedication in 1955. It was designed together with the MIT Chapel, the two buildings separated by a "green." The ensemble is recognized as one of the best examples of mid-Century modern architecture in the US. Though unassuming by today's standards, the buildings were part of an attempt to define MIT's social cohesion. The Auditorium was where MIT students and faculty could gather for formal events, the chapel was intended for marriages and memorial; the green that stretches between the two buildings, in the tradition of early-American urban planning, was to serve as the setting for civic events. Though the campus has grown around the buildings, the essential features of this idea are still easily legible. The building was named for its principal funder, Sebastian S. Kresge, founder of Kresge Stores and the Kresge Foundation. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1683, 872 KB) Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
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Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
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An auditorium is the area within a theatre, concert hall or other performance space where the audience is located in order to hear and watch the performance. ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
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Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ...
Exterior. ...
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The auditorium is defined by an elegant thin-shell structure, one-eighth of a sphere rising to a height of 50 feet, and sliced away by sheer glass walls so that it comes to earth on only three points. Thin shelled concrete technology was innovative for the times. The dome weighs only 1200 tons and is clad with copper. Sitting on a circular brick platform, the dome contains a concert hall (with seating for 1226 people), with a lower level that houses a small theater (seating 204), two rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, offices, bathrooms, and lounges. The concert hall also contains a Holtkamp organ. The opening ceremony in 1955, that featured the organ, included a pice of music that was commissioned for the event, Aaron Copland's "Canticle of Freedom." The worlds first double curvature lattice steel Shell by V.G.Shukhov (during construction), Vyksa near Nizhny Novgorod, 1897 Thin-shell structures can be defined as curved structures capable of transmitting loads in more than two directions to supports. ...
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Every seat in concert hall has an unobstructed view since there are no interior supports for the overarching dome. Working with renowned acoustical architects Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Saarinen employed free-hanging acoustic "clouds" that absorb and direct sound, instead of a traditional plaster ceiling. These clouds also contained lights, loudspeakers, and ventilation. Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. ...
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A loudspeaker is a device which converts an electrical signal into sound. ...
Return inlet (left)Supply outlet (right). ...
While standing on either side of the entry lobby, one can distinctly hear people on the other side speaking in as low a voice as a whisper. A lobby is a room in a building which is used for entry from the outside. ...
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Reference http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/saarinen/
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PSFC logo The Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a research laboratory for the study of plasma physics and nuclear fusion. ...
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MIT Class of 2007 ring. ...
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Exterior. ...
Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
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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. ...
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