05/14/2008, 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Learning Units: 2.00-Walking Tour
Training Units: 0.50-Training Area 17 (Energy Conservation)
The Ray and Maria Stata Center building, completed in 2004, continues the tradition of creativity and innovation that took place in its predecessor, World War II Building 20. Frank Gehry's Stata Center replaces a timber framed temporary building where many great ideas were born and developed. We will visit this new 720,000-square-foot building that Gehry Partners and associate architects, Cannon Associates, designed from the inside out to promote creativity, innovation, collaboration, and community.
The building is home to the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. The striking design, featuring tilting towers, many-angled walls, and whimsical shapes, challenges much of the conventional wisdom of laboratory and campus building.
When the building opened in 2004, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Robert Campbell, FAIA wrote in the Boston Globe that the building is "a work of architecture that embodies serious thinking about how people live and work, and at the same time shouts the joy of invention."
The tour will be led by members of the team responsible for developing and implementing the design.
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate the visual and functional impact of an unconventional academic building
- Identify at least two ways in which the building's form accommodates and enhances its program
- List at least three of the measures that enabled the Stata Center to be designed to achieve LEED silver certification
TP24b Wednesday, Noon-2:30 p.m., $60
Sponsored by Nitsch Engineering
Core Disciplines: Design
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