Designing MIT : Bosworth's new tech / Mark Jarzombek.

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Jarzombek, Mark [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Description
viii, 164 pages ; 26 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • From the Rogers Building to the new Tech. The changing identity of MIT: why the move?
    • President Maclaurin and the new site
    • The first design of Stephen Child
    • Désiré Desparadelle's alternative
    • A third design: Ralph Adam Cram's?
    • The Eastman millions
    • Freeman to the rescue
    • "Study no. 7"
    • Selection of Cass Gilbert
    • William Welles Bosworth becomes a candidate
    • Bosworth's early architectural training
    • Vanderlip, Vail, and Bosworth
    • Bosworth gets the nod
    • The gentleman and the architect
    • Bosworth's designs for MIT
    • Bosworth-Freeman synthesis
    • Between the lines of modernity
    • The grand opening
    • Architectural notes. The campus plan
    • The dome
    • The portico
    • The court
    • The statue of Minerva
    • The genisis of MIT's Ionic Capitals
    • Walker Memorial, the dormitories, and the president's house
    • The unbuilt MIT chapel
    • 77 Massachusetts Avenue entrance.
    ISBN
    • 9780998117010 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0998117013 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016042673
    OCLC
    958963057
    Other standard number
    • 40027000899
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