The laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE) was the answer to a necessary extension for the Department of Physics at Harvard University. The brief called for 3,000 square meters of free space, 1,400 square meters for high-performance
The MIT Design Center transforms an existing, underused courtyard, delimited by academic buildings, into an active laboratory shared by different disciplines focused on advancing knowledge on design, a creative activity that has long ceased to be exc
The New York firm of Robert A.M. Stern has renovated the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts), giving clarity to the complex through three constructions that effectively unite the four preexisting bu
En 1997, el empresario Ray Stata, antiguo alumno del Massachusetts Institute of Technology, anunció una importante donación a la institución, a la que se sumaron más tarde las de otros importantes mecenas, como Bill Gates y Alexander Dreyfoos. Se ini
Para responder a las necesidades de los laboratorios, parte del programa se construye enterrado; mientras que el cuerpo exterior, respetando el carácter del campus, se adosa a un edificio contiguo y se alza sobre tres enormes ‘patas’ que, modeladas s
El campus del Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology se halla inmerso en un ambicioso proceso de ampliación que incluye la construcción de más de una docena de nuevos edificios y la renovación de otros existentes. Poseedor de un valioso legado arquitec
Though alvar Aalto had a lifelongrelationship with the United States, it was particularly intense in the forties thanks to a series of prolonged stays. The first was in 1940, at the height of war in his country, when he busied himself with activities
Like most of the modem European masters, Stirling's first commission in the United States was for a university building: the extension to the Rice School of Architecture, in Houston, Texas. There he summoned all his contextualist resources to come up
