Horizontal Genius

Three pictures to tell the story of MIT.

The old Building 20. Low, horizontal, nondescript as a barn. Or a New England factory, which happens to have been the original inspiration for MIT, the Greek Revival exterior notwithstanding.

 Frank Gehry's brilliant Stata Center will some day be recognized as the transformative building it is. Meanwhile, what was horizontal has become vertical, and locked, and any ten minute conversation on any floor above the first will be interrupted by lost people looking for unknown destinations.

But this is what MIT makes MIT: the corridors that connect buildings to buildings, people to people, that bridge disciplines, that go a long way toward making a complicated place a coherent whole. And these are the connections that will drive the sustainability work at MIT. Hence our salute to the genius of that spirit here at the launch of our blog.

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