Self-Guided Walking Tour of the MIT Campus

P AInformation Center MIT Museum → B Stratton Student Center → N52 C

➔ DMIT Chapel → E Hart Nautical Galleries

TECHNOLOGY Building 5 ➔ SQUARE M F Bldg. 3/Design and A Manufacturing Display S S A C GKillian Court H U HHayden Memorial S E Library Building T T S I McDermott Court A V

E JTech Coop

N M ➔ A U IN KAn Athena Computer E ➔→ S ➔→→ TR Cluster →→ E

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STRE Stata ➔ R VASSA Alley ➔ Center MBarker Engineering TREET AR S ➔ T SS → Library - Bldg. 10-500 VA E J E E19 Tech Coop → → R NCompton Gallery 57 T → → S T T Bldg. 10-1st floor 68 S ➔ → E Kendall

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B ➔ 56 E17 E25 E38 P MIT Museum ➔

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N → Whitaker College

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➔ → 7➔→ M 4 A → E23 Information 54 C Center L 18 → E15 MIT Medical

F → D ➔ W16 I 62 64

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D O R M I T O R I E S MEMORIAL DRIVE

MEMORIAL DRIVE

Welcome to MIT! held at 10:00 am and names. The numbering you see a number on the route, letters of the alpha- , a problems. Today education The following suggested 2:00 pm. system might appear office doors, the first bet are used to avoid distinguished natural and research, with tour route and description confusing at first, but there number refers to the confusion with the building scientist, founded MIT to relevance to the practical should aid you in exploring We suggest that you begin is a logical explanation as building number and then numbers. establish a new kind of world as a guiding the campus on your own. your tour in the Lobby of to how it runs. The following the hyphen is the independent educational principle, continues to be The Information Center Building 7 (Rogers Bldg.) buildings east of the Great room number. Buildings Enjoy your visit! institution relevant to an MIT’s primary purpose. (Building 7-121) offers 77 Massachusetts Avenue Dome and Killian Court west of Massachusetts increasingly industrialized William Rogers was student guided tours of the (Letter A on the map). (Building 10) have even Avenue begin with a “W”, First off some back- America. He believed that President of the Institute campus, Monday through Even though many of the numbers and those west those north of the railroad ground information on professional competence from 1862-70 and 1879-81. Friday at 11:00 am and buildings are named, of it have odd numbers. tracks “N”, and those east MIT to get you started: was best fostered by 3:00 pm, excluding legal people usually refer to the Thus you will find building of Ames Street “E”. Although founded in 1861, coupling teaching and holidays. Admissions buildings by their assigned 1 and 2 on opposite sides To help you navigate the MIT did not admit its first research and by focusing Information Sessions are numbers instead of the of Killian Courtyard. When suggested self-guided tour students until 1865. attention on realworld

MIT is independent, co- MIT’s 2009-2010 enrollment Thirty-five current and In the basement there is a Kresge Auditorium Ashdown House, Tang of stairs and turn left educational, and privately is 10,384 students. former members of the U.S. Post Office, an (Bldg.W16): The building Residence Hall, Edgerton into Bldg. 5 wing: Enter endowed. Its five schools Undergraduate enrollment MIT faculty have received optical shop, two hair was designed by Eero House, The Warehouse, the Hart Nautical Gallery and one college encompass is 4,232 students. Graduate the National Medal of salons ,a tailor and Saarinen. Its initial Sidney-Pacific Residence. The Hart Nautical numerous academic depart- enrollment is 6,152 Science. Six former dry cleaning. occupancy was 1955. Approximately 400 graduate Collections of the MIT ments, divisions, and students. Women have members of the MIT The main auditorium and undergraduate students Museum is one of the most degree-granting programs, attended MIT since 1871. faculty have been Take the center stairway to seats 1,200 people. with families live in two important collections of as well as interdisciplinary In fall 2009, there were, awarded the Kyoto Prize. the second floor to see the The Little Theatre, with a campus apartment nautical materials in the centers, laboratories, and 1,916 women enrolled as There are 74 Guggenheim Lobdell dining facility, the capacity of 212, is complexes, Westgate and country. The gallery is programs whose work cuts undergraduates (45 Fellows, 7 Fulbright Catherine N. Stratton used for the theatrical Eastgate. About 80 open weekdays from 10 am across traditional depart- percent) and 1,916 as Scholars, and 21 Lounge, and the Jerome productions including the graduate students live in to 5 pm. mental boundaries. graduate students (31 MacArthur Fellows among B. Wiesner Student Art Drama Shop and undergraduate dorms as current MIT faculty and Gallery. You can exit the graduate resident tutors. Exit the main gallery MIT is located on 168 acres percent).Minority groups Shakespeare Ensemble. staff. building from this level. and turn right and that extend more than a are represented by 48% Downstairs are rehearsal undergraduates, and 18% rooms for the Choral Student Family Housing: continue back to Lobby mile along the Charles River. graduate students. There The Alumni Association, The 4th and 5th floors Society, Concert and Westgate - this five-building 7, (A) are 2,722 international consists of approximately house many of the student Jazz Bands, and various complex located at the Along the route you will students registered at 122,000 former students. activities. There are ensembles. west end of campus Enter Lobby 7 (A) and see sculptures and MIT, 391 undergraduates approximately 200 provides 210 apartments turn right to enter the buildings by distinguished and 2,331 graduate Walking recognized organizations Among Kresge’s interesting for student families. center hallway, known artists and architects. students, for the current and clubs. Many of them features is its outer shell Eastgate - located adjacent as “The Infinite Corri- The central group of MIT’s academic year. There are Tour are open to both faculty which is one eighth of a to Kendall Square, Eastgate dor”: The hallway is interconnecting buildings, approximately 1,025 and students. sphere that floats free from is a 29-story apartment almost 1/6 of a mile long. dedicated in 1916, was faculty members, about Route: the rest of the auditorium. tower with 201 family units. Twice a year the sun designed by architect W. 213 of whom are women. (A) Leave Building 7 Before visiting Kresge Three deeply sunk There are 95 one-bedroom shines the length of the Welles Bosworth (Class of The total teaching staff, lobby and cross Massa- Auditorium you may want abutments support the apartments, 84 larger one- corridor (weather permit- 1889). Many other including faculty, lecturers, chusetts Avenue: Central to visit our new sports shell, while the auditorium’s bedroom apartments, and ting) and people gather to buildings have been instructors, and teaching and Harvard Squares are to facility the Zesiger Center. interior is built up from the 22 two-bedroom watch. Many of the your right, and the Harvard designed by leading assistants, is 1,704. ground. The roof of the apartments. buildings on campus architects, among them, Bridge leading into Boston (C)After leaving the connect. MIT is said to MIT employs about 10,500 is on the left. building is only supported Alvar Aalto, Eduardo people. Student Center walk in three places and in the have about 7 miles of Catalano, I.M.Pei(‘40), D (B) Enter the Julius toward Kresge Audito- middle it is only 3 1/2 ( ) Proceed to the connecting corridors and Stephen Holl, Frank Seventy-four present and Adams Stratton rium (Bldg. W16): inches thick. A Woltkampf Chapel (Bldg. W15) buildings. Gehry, and Eero Saarinen. former members of the Building(Bldg. W20 ) which As you walk towards Organ is located in the You can enter the Chapel Sculptures, murals, and MIT community have won houses the Student Center: Kresge you will see the main auditorium. unless it is being used for (F) Turn right into Bldg. paintings, including works the Nobel Prize, including The architect for the athletics facilities on your a service or function.The 3 and look at the 2.007 of Alexander Calder, Henry eightcurren tfacult y building was Eduardo right, including the new While in Kresge Plaza architect for the building (Design and Manufactur- Moore, and Louise members: H. Robert Horvitz, Catalano - 1965. A major Zesiger Sports and Fitness you can view some of was Eero Saarinen, 1955. ing 1) display in the Nevelson are found medicine/physiology (2002); renovation was completed Center. the living groups located There are currently 32 glass case. Signs in the throughout the campus. in 1989 and the architect Wolfgang Ketterle, physics for the renovation was along the River: Most active and long-standing case will explain the (2001); Richard R. Schrock, Bruner/Cott Associates. M.I.T. offers one of the undergraduates live in MIT’s student religious organiza- contest. chemistry (2005); Philip A. most extensive men’s and 11 Institute houses or in 36 tions. The Chapel bell You may wish to visit the Sharp, medicine/physiology women’s programs of MIT-affiliated fraternities, tower and bell were (G) Proceed to the end When you enter the MIT Museum, 265 (1993); Samuel C. C. Ting, NCAA Intercollegiate sororities, and living groups. designed by sculptor of the Bldg. 3 corridor Student Center on the first Massachusetts Avenue physics (1976); Susumu Sports competition of any Because of the importance Theodore Roszak. and exit left into Killian floor you will find Laverde’s (Bldg.N52), and several Tonegawa, medicine/ college or university in the of the residential program in Sunlight striking the moat Court. As you enter the Market, Dunkin Donuts galleries on campus. physiology (1987); country. Physical education students’ social and around the windowless courtyard on your left is the and Cambridge Grill, The campus newspaper Frank Wilczek, physics is required for all under- intellectual development, Chapel is reflected upward sculpture “Three-piece Anna’s Taqueria, Copy (available in (2004); and Peter Diamond, graduates. Approximately all unmarried first-year into the arches at the base Reclining Figure, Draped” Tech “Express”, Bank of Lobby 7 in the Kiosk economic sciences (2010). 20% of the undergradu- students live within one of and appears in sparkling by Henry Moore. On the America, and a small Display Space bins) ates also compete in the Institute’s residence dots of light on the interior other side of the courtyard branch of the Tech carries campus, research intercollegiate athletics, halls--except for those who walls. Behind the altar is a is the 11-piece granite Coop(MIT’s Bookstore). and arts news and and about 75% of all commute from the homes sculpture by Harry Bertoia. sculpture “Guennette”, by The main store of the Tech features. students (graduate and of their parents or close This sculpture is also used Michael Heizer, placed on Coop, which sells books, undergraduate) take part in relatives. to help scatter light extended loan to the M.I.T. is located in Kendall intramural sports. There throughout the room. Permanent Collection by Square, 3 Cambridge are 33 varsity teams. MIT Graduate Single Student the Metropolitan Museum Center (Building NE 20). competes mostly against Housing: Approximately (E) Walk across of Art in New York City. Laverde’s Market carries a Division III New England 2,000 single graduate Massachusetts Avenue, The sculpture’s title is the wide variety of items colleges and Ivy League students live in MIT’s five Enter the main complex name of the town in including take-out-food. schools. campus houses-- At 33 Mass. Ave., Bldg. Quebec where the quarry 1: Go up the short flight is located from which the granite was taken. music, theater, creative To your right is Buildings E40 and E51 Fleischner as part of the Chemical Engineering and study atomic bomb writing, and visual arts Walker Memorial, house several groups. collaboration between building is five stories high explosions. Seen from the courtyard, events, and pursue a (Bldg. 50); East Located in building E40 artists and architects who and triangular in shape the Great Dome, patterned double major or a joint Campus, Dormitories is The Center for designed the Wiesner with two floors below With support from the after Rome’s Pantheon, major in science or (Bldg. 62 & 64), Technology, Policy and building. ground. National Geographic provides the Institute’s engineering and the arts Senior House, (Bldg. Industrial Development, Society, Dr. Edgerton architectural focus. Inside and humanities courses. E2). In front of you the Laboratory for Energy Other commissions for the Adjacent to the Ralph pioneered in the develop- the dome is the James The MIT List Visual Arts is the Green Building and the Environment, and are a Landau Building stands a ment of underwater Madison Barker (Class of Center’s permanent (Bldg. 54), and the other research groups. large painted wall by artist sculpture by Louise electronic flash equipment 1907) Engineering Library. collection contains over Chemistry Building E51 is the headquarters Kenneth Noland, a Nevelson entitled and cameras capable of Conceived in the classic 1,000 paintings, sculp- (Bldg. 18). for The Science, Technol- gridwork of color that is “Transparent Horizon”. making pictures miles tradition by architect tures, photographs and ogy, and Society Program derived from the stee l plates beneath the sea. He William Welles Bosworth contemporary prints The Camille Edouard and has classrooms and of the building’s exterior, (K) Enter the doors at collaborated with such (Class of 1889), this was throughout the Institute. Dreyfus Building (Bldg offices used by the Sloan and concrete and granite the intersection of Bldg. renowned people as the grouping into which 18): The building was School. benches designed by 66 and 56 and turn left Captain Jacques-Yves M.I.T. moved in 1916 from The School of Humani- dedicated in 1970. It sculptor Scott Burton for to view an Athena Cousteau. Dr. Edgerton its original quarters on ties, Arts, and Social houses much of the the atrium and lower lobby. Computer Cluster. helped organize and build Boylston Street in Boston’s Sciences: The School Chemistry Department. The Jerome B. and Laya Athena provides comput- Boston’s New England Back Bay. includes Economics, W. Wiesner Building The large figurative ing access for all M.I.T. Aquarium and served as Humanities, Linguistics The Cecil and Ida Green (Bldg. E15): It is a sculpture is Henry Moore’s students, faculty and staff, one of its trustees. and Philosophy, Political Building (A Center for building for arts and Reclining Figure: working 24 hours a day, 365 days Science, and the Program Earth Sciences) (Bldg media technology. The model for the Lincoln a year through a distrib- (M) Proceed to Bldg. 10 Research at MIT: A in Science, Technology, 54). This building houses building was designed by Sculpture, 1963. This uted computing environ- and take an elevator or special feature of education and Society. the Departments of Earth, I.M. Pei and Partners. bronze cast is a smaller ment of over 1,000 stairs up to the 5th floor at MIT is the opportunity for Atmospheric, and The entrance to the version of the Moore workstations, 140 servers to enter the Barker students and faculty to The Department of Planetary Sciences and the building is marked by a sculpture which now is in and dozens of laser Engineering Library: participate together in Humanities: The Center for Meteorology portal that extends the the plaza of the Metropoli- printers. Athena worksta- The Engineering Library is research activities. There Department consists of a and Physical Oceanogra- main facade and serves tan Opera House in Lincoln tions are deployed in located in the Great Dome are more than 70 special number of autonomous phy. as a gateway between the Center in New York City. public clusters, like the one that you saw when you laboratories on the sections and programs, main campus and east M.I.T.’s sculpture was a gift in Building 56, in depart- were in Killian Court. It is a campus. Nearly all the each with its own Walker Memorial (Bldg. campus. The architecture of Vera Glaser List in mental clusters and private beautiful domed room and laboratories are shared by headquarters. There are 50): Walker Memorial is of the Wiesner Building is memory of her brother offices. Students can be worth the effort to see. undergraduates, graduate currently six such units: 1) one of the earlier buildings unique in that it repre- Samuel Glaser, a 1925 found here all hours of the In the center of the room students, and faculty Anthropology/Archaeology, on the Cambridge sents a working alliance graduate of M.I.T.’s day. attached to a long wire is a members working together 2) Foreign Languages and campus. It houses WMBR between the architects Department of Architec- Mobius Strip. It is a one- in close collaboration. It is Literature, 3) History, 4) - M.I.T.’s FM radio station, and three internationally ture. (L) Exit Building 56 sided object even though it not possible to enter Literature, 5) Music and along with other student known artists: Scott through the door at the looks to the eye as if it is laboratories during your Theater Arts, and 6) activities. The walls of the Burton, Richard Further along Ames Street end of the hall, turn two sided. The sculptor visit to MIT for safety Writing and Humanistic Everett Morss Hall are Fleischner, and Kenneth (on your right) is the Ford right, and follow the was Robert Engman. reasons. The MIT Bulletin Studies. decorated with murals by Noland. The collaboration Building (Bldgs. E19 & walkway to the entrance can provide you with Edwin Howland Blashfield between artists and E18) and the Seeley G. to Bldg. 8 and the (N) Take the elevator descriptions of the research The MIT Libraries: (Class of 1869), who also architects made the Mudd Building (E17), a “”. back down to the first groups and departments. The MIT Libraries painted the main dome of artists’ work an integral building that houses major Proceed straight down floor of Bldg. 10 and support the Institute’s the Library of Congress. part of the building’s interdisciplinary facilities in the hall to the first visit the Compton Undergraduate research programs of study and The central panel design. The building is the health sciences. These stairway on your left Gallery: The class of 1938 activity takes place in every research. Five major represents the Alma Mater faced with square panels include the Center for and go to the 4th floor raised funds to build this academic department from subject libraries, for with the world at her feet; of aluminum and is Cancer Research and the and turn left. If you gallery which is named for history to chemistry to Architecture and Planning, on her left, knowledge banded by windows in the Clinical Research Center. wish to take an elevator the wife of Karl Taylor engineering. Engineering, Humanities, through experiment, one same modular system. At to the 4th floor you Compton, President of of the founding principles its core is a four-story On your left is the Biology would continue down M.I.T. from 1930 to 1949. Exchange Programs with Science, Management and of M.I.T. Walker also experimental media Building (Bldg. 68). the first floor hallway Compton is a very Other Universities: Social Science, as well houses the Muddy Charles facility, designed to be the High-tech throughout, the and take the elevators important figure in the Cooperative arrangements as several specialized Pub. world’s most sophisticated building has six floors with located in the lobby of history of M.I.T., and the enable MIT Students to libraries and the Institute large-scale electronic two below ground levels. Building 10, turn left off Comptons were very take subjects for credit at Archives, offer access to a (J) If you wish to visit the environment for both You can enter the main the elevator when you popular with the students. Harvard University, wide range of materials, Tech Coop’s Main store research and perfor- floor of the building, but reach the 4th floor. In the Compton Gallery, the Wellesley College, the both print and electronic. you would pass by the mance. The Wiesner the other floors are M.I.T. Museum presents a Massachusetts College of The collection includes tennis courts (on your Building is intended to restricted due to safety. In Edgerton’s Strobe Alley: wide range of exhibits that Art and Design, and the more than 2.6 million printed volumes, 17,000 right), turn left on Ames bring together the the lobby there is a There are photographs and reflect the interests of the School of the Museum Street and proceed to Institute’s program in the petrified tree. It took more hands-on exhibits located M.I.T. Community. The of Fine Arts without paying current journal sub- scriptions, 478 online Cambridge Center (also visual arts and media than two years to find a along the 4th floor hallway. Compton Gallery is open additional tuition. Wellesley known as Kendall Square). studies. The Wiesner section of a petrified tree of Monday through Friday, operates a free weekday databases, and over 30,000 electronic journal titles Building consolidates an the right diameter and Dr. Harold Edgerton 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. A bus service between its portrait of Mrs. Compton licensed for access on The M.I.T. Press Bookstore extensive exhibition length that was small achieved international and campus and the Institute. hangs in the corridor the Institute’s network. (Bldg. E38) is located on program with academic enough to physically move lasting recognition as a Further agreements exist Main Street. It is one of offerings in film, video, and position in the pioneer in stroboscopy and outside the gallery. between specific depart- In the Humanities Library the country’s largest experimental music, building. Each of the four ultra-high speed photogra- ments and programs at MIT on the second floor are university presses. holography, electronic pieces, two and a half feet phy. His remarkable and their counterparts at sculptures by Antoine publishing, telecommuni- in diameter, weighs nearly photographs of stopped Boston University, Brandeis Bourdelle and August Along Ames Street are cations, and performance a ton. A projection system motion have been seen, (O) Exit the Gallery University, and Tufts Rodin. In front of the several buildings : technologies. Under- with a light source that used, and enjoyed by and turn right down the University. Students taking Hayden Library is a welded Facing the river are the graduate and graduate could run continuously for millions around the world stairs, through Lobby 13. advantage of these programs corten steel sculpture, Senior House Dormitories training in these areas is twelve to fourteen hours a for years. Edgerton, Leave the building and may enroll only in specified “Angola”, by Isaac Witkin. and the Gray House, both complemented by basic day projects images onto Germeshausen, and Grier, walk straight ahead to subjects. On the terrace outside the of Bosworth’s original research and by new the round white marble Inc., which he helped Vassar Street. Walk to the library stands a bronze design. The east end of media applications in the surface on the floor at the establish, characteristically, right and at the junction Independent Activities sculpture, “Elmo”, by campus is the focus for most modern of computer- far end of the lobby. Jim - with two of his former of Vassar and Main Street Period: IAP is a four Dimitri Hadzi. A group of many of the social science based information Sanborn designed the tree students, has grown to turn right and enter the week period in January sculptures by Jacques activities at M.I.T.. In the processing, display, and area which includes the become a major element in Stata Center. The Ray & that offers flexible teaching Lipchitz is located by the Alfred P. Sloan School of storage systems. The rough-cut limestone blocks the world’s electronic Maria Stata Center is home and learning for indepen- door leading to McDermott Management are six large principal occupants of the and the green quartz industry (EG&G). to the Computer Science dent study and research. Court. The sculpture murals by Francis Scott building are the Media benches. and Artificial Intelligence (H) Enter Bldg. 2 and walk adjacent to the library is Bradford in the first-floor Laboratory and the Albert Dr. Edgerton has been Laboratory (CSAIL), the to the Hayden Memorial “Curve XII” by Ellsworth lobby which depict familiar & Vera List Visual Arts Jim Melchert, a California referred to as the father of Laboratory for Information Library Building. Before Kelly, on extended loan to Boston scenes in the Center. sculptor, created the long electronic flash photogra- and Decision Systems (LIDS) you reach the Hayden the Permanent Collection. 1930s. Adjacent to the wall mural of glazed tiles, phy. Although he did not and the Department of Library note the bronze tab- Sloan School are the hand-painted with abstract invent the stroboscope (the Linguistics and Philosophy . let honoring Ellen Swallow Leave Bldg. 14 by the Grover M. Hermann Medical Department at shapes. The mural is 14 word coined in 1832) it Richards (Class of 1873). Music Library. Nearly 1/4 building (housing the the Health Services feet high and 225 feet long was his research that of M.I.T. undergraduates Dewey Library of Econom- Center (Bldg. E23): The covering the wall in the transformed it from a Medical Department is a Ellen Swallow Richards was enroll in music classes. ics and Management and lobby and along the outer scientific curiosity into an (P.) Exit back on to Vassa r multi-specialty group M.I.T.’s first woman gradu- Over 500 participate in the Political Science hallway. There are 2,529 important tool. The earliest Stree t and walk to the left practice which employs 24 ate and member of the organized musical groups. Department) and the one-foot square hand stroboscopes were toys and turn right onto full-time and 50 part-time teaching staff. A chemist by Eastgate Apartments. painted tiles. Melchert that produced optical Massachusett s venue, physicians as well as other A training, she was particularly (I) Enter McDermott The Alfred P. Sloan Fellows named the mural “Coming illusions using light flashes cross Albany Street to the professional support interested in the purity of Court (courtyard on the Program is a twelve-month to Light”, a title that has a to make rotating wheels MIT Museum at personnel. The drinking water. Her work in Memorial Drive side of the program, leading to the double meaning. First, he and discs appear to be 265 Massachusett sAvenue. department’s medical staff nutrition and sanitation of Green building) S.M. degree in manage- says it refers to things that stopped. Dr. Edgerton Visit the Mark Epstein provides primary care in food, water, and air helped McDermott Court was ment. There are approxi- are unknown being made saw that if rapidly flashing Innovation Gallery the areas of internal establish the modern field of named for Mr. and Mrs. mately fifty men and known through the activity light could be synchronized featuring the work of MIT medicine, orthopedics, ecology, including coining Eugene McDermott of woman selected each year of biology - new informa- with the rotation of motors, research groups, a variety of ophthalmology, urology, the word ecology. She was Dallas, Texas, who made from industry, government, tion coming to light. generators, and flywheels, exhibits on science and allergy, neurology, nutrition, the founder and first presi- the project possible. The and other institutions in the Second, it refers to the it would provide a means technology, and the MIT endocrinology, dermatol- dent of the American Home sculpture, The Big Sail (La U.S. and abroad for the nature of the tile itself, for engineers to study Museum Store with a unique ogy, otolaryngology, Economics Association. Grande Voile) is a 40-foot program. which is to reflect light. these parts while in action. selection of gifts. sculpture by Alexander gastroenterology, He and his former students pathology, radiology, Hours: From the Swallow Lobby Calder. Its 35 parts were Outside the Hermann Return down Ames spent years developing the OPEN DAIL Y you will pass through fabricated in France and building (Bldg. E53) stands psychiatry, and social Street and turn into the circuitry, the brilliant flash work. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm the Mathematics Dept. were shipped to Cam- an eleven-foot reproduc- walkway by the Chemi- tubes, the energy-storing Closed Major Holidays Now you will be entering bridge. Calder arrived at tion of Pablo Picasso’s cal Engineering Building capacitors, etc., to achieve Hayden Library where M.I.T. to direct the “Figure decoupee”, New (Bldg. 66). It is the this. the Humanities, Arts, assembly of 33 tons of England’s first large-scale The Wiesner Building triangular shaped and Social Sciences steel plates for the art building on your right. During World War II he Picasso sculpture. Plaza: The Whitaker (HASS) Requirement work. A crane with a 60- The Ralph Landau Building helped develop strobe Health Services/Health Office is located: M.I.T. foot boom was used in (Bldg. 66) houses the photography for aerial Sciences Building provides a substantial and erecting the stabile and , Chemical Engineering reconnaissance and went designed by architects varied program in the plates were fastened Department. The architect to the European War Mitchell/Giurgola, and the humanities, arts, and social together with 3,000 for this building, the Cecil Theater to direct the use of I.M. Pei designed Wiesner sciences that forms an pounds of nuts and bolts and Ida Green Building, this equipment in Building are connected by essential part of the and anchored to a massive and the Camille Edouard photographing enemy a plaza/sculpture garden education, both curricular concrete pad. Dreyfus Building for troop movements. After with walkways in geomet- and extracurricular, of organic Chemistry was I.M. World War II, he and his ric patterns and lawns. every undergraduate. Pei. Mr. Pei graduated partners were asked by the The plaza was designed by Students can participate in from the M.I.T. School of Atomic Energy Commis- landscape artist Richard and attend over 400 Architecture in 1940. The sion (AEC) to photograph