MIT: A Historical and Architectural Tour

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Preface
Foreword: Thoughts on the MIT Campus
Author’s Acknowledgments
PART ONE: Global Portals
	The Great White City of the Gods of Copley Square
	PORTAL ONE: Cornerstone
		William Barton Rogers: Brahmin Acropolis, Immigrant Dreams
	PORTAL TWO: Foundation
		The Boston Money Tree
	PORTAL THREE: Laboratory
		Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Sullivan
	PORTAL FOUR: Factory
		Industrial Revolution, Entrepreneurial Vistas
	PORTAL FIVE: Keystone
		MIT’s Cofounder: Emma Savage Rogers’s Passion for Science
	PORTAL SIX: Pediment
		Unitarians as the First American Modernists
	PORTAL SEVEN: Frieze
		Artistic Engineers, Lefty Pundits
	PORTAL EIGHT: Court of Honor
		Charles Eliot’s Charles River Basin
PART TWO: Campus Walks
	Inventing the Future on Boston’s Left Bank
	WALK ONE: Neoclassical Reflections
		William Welles Bosworth’s New Tech
		1 The View from Harvard Bridge
	WALK TWO: “Marble Index”
		The Outward Sign of the Inward Force
		2 Second Rogers Building
			Building 7
		3 The “Infinite Corridor”
			First Leg Building 3
	WALK THREE: Centerpiece
		Cambridge Rites, American Pantheon
		4 Memorial Lobby of Maclaurin Buildings
			Building 10
		5 The Great Court of MIT
		6 The Divisions of the Great Court
			Killian, Lowell, and du Pont Courts
		7 Barker Engineering Library
			Building 10 (Fifth Floor)
		8 Walker Building Blashfield Murals
		9 George Eastman Laboratories
	WALK FOUR: Indoor Muse
		Corridor Art, Infinitude Parsed
		10 Walker Memorial Blashfield Murals
		11 Eastman Lobby and Laboratories
			Building 6
		12 The Sol LeWitt Floor
		13 Infinite Corridor Murals
		14 The Stella Conference Room
	WALK FIVE: The New Architecture
		Unitarians Again: Aalto and Saarinen
		15 The Aalto-Saarinen Group
		16 Baker House
		17 MIT Chapel
		18 Kresge Auditorium
		19 Kresge Court
	WALK SIX: Heroic Form
		I. M. Pei and Jhumpa Lahiri—MIT and Asia
		20 McDermott Court I
			The Pei Ensemble
		21 Cecil and Ida Green Center for Earth Sciences (Building 54)
		22 The Camille Edouard Dreyfus Chemistry Building (Building 18)
		23 The Ralph Landau Building (Building 66)
		24 The Pei Gateway
		25 Wiesner Building Center for Arts and Media Technology
		26 McDermott Court II
	WALK SEVEN: Outdoor Muse
		Jewish Muse: The Tasks of Twentieth-Century Art
		27 The Hayden Memorial Library and Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Sculpture Courtyard
		28 Elmo (MIT)
		29 La Grand Voile (The Big Sail)
		30 Transparent Horizon
		31 Wiesner Building
			List Visual Arts Center
			Here-There
		32 Figure découpée (Cut-Out Figure)
		33 Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped
		34 Alchemist
		35 Collier Memorial
	WALK EIGHT: Metaphors
		Gehry, Holl, Correa, Maki
		36 Simmons Hall
		37 Ray and Maria Stata Center
		38 MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex
		39 Media Lab Extension
		40 Kendall Square
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