MIT: An Architectural Tour

by Douglass Shand-Tucci

Book Overview

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in 1861 as the cornerstone of Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay, then the center of a progressive, proto-globalist Brahmin culture committed to intellectual modernism and educational innovation. MIT founder William Barton Rogers's radical vision to teach by "mind and hand" was immediately successful.

In 1916 MIT, growing by leaps and bounds, moved its campus to the nearby Charles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616892749
• ISBN13: 9781616892746
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.9"