Designing MIT: Bosworth's New Tech

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Mark M. Jarzombek (Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Designing MIT

Bosworth's New Tech

Mark M. Jarzombek (Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P)
24 March 2017

Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; Universities

Series: Designing MIT

A generously illustrated account of artistic clashes, bureaucratic tangles, and contemporary politics that accompanied the design and building of MIT's Cambridge campus.

At the end of the nineteenth century, MIT occupied an assortment of laboratories, classrooms, offices, and student facilities scattered across Boston's Back Bay. In 1912, backed by some of the country's leading financiers and industrialists, MIT officials purchased an undeveloped tract of land in Cambridge. Largely on the basis of a recommendation from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., MIT hired the

cole des Beaux-Arts-trained architect William Welles Bosworth to build and design a new campus.

Designing MIT is the first book to detail Bosworth's challenges in the planning and construction of MIT's unique Cambridge campus. MIT professor of architecture Mark Jarzombek provides a fascinating sample of the architectural debates of the time. He examines the competing project proposals-including one from Ralph Adams Cram, noted for his gothic West Point campus-and describes how Bosworth found his classically oriented vision challenged by the engineer John Freeman, a proponent of Frederick W. Taylor's new principle of scientific management. Jarzombek shows that their conflict ultimately resulted in a far more innovative design than either of their individual approaches would have produced, one that employed new European concepts of industrialism, efficiency, and aesthetics in academic structures.

Generously illustrated with images from the MIT archives, the story of Bosworth's new ""Tech"" offers more than just insight into the planning of a campus. Fraught with artistic clashes, bureaucratic tangles, and contemporary politics, the story of MIT's design sheds light on the academic culture of the early twentieth century, the role of patronage in the world of architecture, and the history of the Beaux-Arts style in the United States.

By: Mark M. Jarzombek (Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Imprint: MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 251mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 486g
ISBN: 9780998117010
ISBN 10: 0998117013
Series: Designing MIT
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 24 March 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT. He is coauthor of A Global History of Architecture and Architecture of First Societies- A Global Perspective.