Project by IM Pei, the plaza is often compared to the similarly large City Hall Plaza, yet is more successful in enlivening the area despite both being modernist plazas.
The Carpenter Center is LeCorbusier's only work in the United States. So influential, LeCorbusier is on the Swiss 10fr note.
By Frank Gehry, the building was supposed to mimic the Infinite Corridor, providing a "student street" on the ground floor.
The outer screen's opacity was specially calculated to ensure the building met Cambridge's strict 50%-closed surfaces mandate on buildings.
IM Pei's original building for the Media Lab had worked closely with Nelson, the artist of the colored bars on the building's interior facade.
The first of the modern buildings on campus came as then President Killian sought to "humanize" the environment on campus and invited Alvar Aalto to do a building on campus.
The exquisite original McKim, Mead and White building received a modernist, referential extension by Phillip Johnson, architect of the famed Glass House and chippendale Sony Center in NYC.
The ICA proved that Boston could be a home to both contemporary art and contemporary architecture. It was the first major building for Diller, Scofidio + Renfro of NYC.
The much maligned plaza is fanned shaped, as a reference to the famed palazzo in Siena, Italy (home to the Palio).
One of many buildings by Luis Sert during his time at Harvard. Others include the Holyoke Center.
The exciting residence building by Office dA (now Nadaa) of Boston. Office dA are National Design Award recipients and the former partners are the leaders of UMichigan's and MIT's programs in arch.
A small but beautiful work by Eero Saarinen, famous for the TWA Flight Center (Terminal 5) at JFK Airport and the St. Louis Arch.
