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TP26a From the Infinite Corridor into the Future: MIT's Evolving Campus HSW
05/14/2008, 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM


Learning Units: 3.00-Walking Tour
Training Units: 0.75-Training Area 17 (Planning)

Boston is one of the great academic capitals of the world and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is one of its greatest institutions of higher learning. MIT is renowned for its innovations in engineering, architecture, and science. This world-class level of innovation and leadership is reflected in MIT's architecture and has been since it created the first school of architecture in the United States.

Recognizing the needs of today's emerging technologies, globalization, and communication innovations, MIT has embarked upon its Evolving Campus program to ensure the university's preeminence as a 21st-century teaching and research institution as well as a supportive student community. The heart of the campus has been its historic Main Group core buildings, dating from the 1930s. Recently MIT has initiated a major renovation for this core through its Physics, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Infrastructure (PDSI) Project.

The PDSI project provides 50,000 gross square feet of new space connecting on three sides to existing space, complete renovation of the 80,000 square feet of contiguous existing space and core infrastructure to nearly one-quarter of the Main Group's 1 million square feet.

We will tour the new and renovated spaces of the Main Group, including the Infinite Corridor; linger in the Great Court facing the Charles River; and continue across the campus to the List Visual Art Center, designed by I. M. Pei and other distinguished architects. On the way we will enjoy MIT's outstanding sculpture collection, including Henry Moore's Reclining Figure and Calder's Grande Voile.

Our guides will be Pam Delphenich, FAIA, director, MIT Campus Planning and Design and John Hawes, senior project manager, MIT Department of Facilities. TP27a and TP27c includes a box lunch.

Learning Objectives:
  • Explore how MIT is meeting contemporary academic and social challenges through campus planning and academic and student life facilities projects
  • List multiple methods and approaches for integrating a large institutional campus into the surrounding urban community
  • Identify key challenges and management strategies for constructing multiple simultaneous projects
TP26a Wednesday, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., $85

Core Disciplines: Design