Building Stata: The Design and Construction of Frank O. Gehry’s Stata Center at MIT (MIT Press)

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The evolution of a Frank Gehry building, from planning and design and architect-client interaction to construction; with color illustrations all the way through.

This stunning, lavishly illustrated book chronicles all of the planning and construction process of the Frank Gehry-designed Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT. Taking us from the historical background and architectural context at MIT through the interaction of the clients’ needs and the architect’s vision to the number of building materials and construction methods, Building Stata offers a uniquely detailed have a look at the evolution of an immense work by a master architect. The purpose of the Stata Center is to bring the “intelligence sciences” — computer science, artificial intelligence, information and decision systems, linguistics, and philosophy — together into a space that emphasizes research-focused collaboration. Frank Gehry’s design integrates flexible and interconnected workspaces and contains a series of steps from public to private space, with places for social and intellectual interaction on lower levels giving way to space for study and contemplation at the upper floors; thus a two-level warehouse-like space is topped by two towers. The Center is wrapped around a series of out of doors terraces visible from a central court in both towers. The characteristic Gehry curves are clad in metal, the more block-like elements in brick. The architectural drawings and photographs — 300 of them in color — in Building Stata document the making of the Stata Center from concept to concrete reality. The photographs by Richard Sobol portray a work in progress, evoking the wonderful thing about its architectural form and capturing the telling detail — the building’s sculptured shape against a clear blue sky, or construction workers perched on a major curve of metal.

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