CultureNOW - Ray and Maria Stata Center (Bldg. 32) : Frank Gehry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Peter Vanderwarker

Ray and Maria Stata Center (Bldg. 32)
Recent Architecture: Educational

Frank Gehry was born Frank Goldberg in Toronto, Canada in 1929. In 1954, he received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Southern California, and later attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he studied city planning. He worked in architectural firms including Victor Gruen Associates and Pereira and Luckman Associates in California and also for a year in the office of Andre Remondet in Paris. He opened his first practice in Santa Monica, California in 1962. In 1979 this practice was succeeded by the firm Gehry & Krueger Inc., and by Gehry Partners, LLP, in 2002.
Gehry's dramatic and individual style, often referred to as Post-Modern and deconstructed, evolved from domestic and commercial buildings to large institutional structures, functioning between architecture and sculpture. A few highlights of his many works are Venice Beach House, California; Gehry House, Santa Monica, California; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Fishdance Restaurant, Kobe, Japan; Chiat/Day Office building, Venice, California; Dancing House, Prague; DG Bank Building, Berlin; and the Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington. As a teacher, Gehry has held the Charlotte Davenport Professorship in Architecture at Yale University, the Eliot Noyes Chair at Harvard University, and was a visiting scholar at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been widely recognized and honored, receiving the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture; the Pritzker Architecture Prize; the Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association; the National Medal of Arts; and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects. He has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; trustee of the American Academy in Rome; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Academician by the National Academy of Design; Honorary Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and has been a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects since 1974. Frank Gehry lives in Santa Monica and works from his offices in Los Angeles, California.

Courtesy of MIT Public Art Collection

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Architect
Frank Gehry

Owner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Photographer
Peter Vanderwarker

Dates

Constructed, 2004

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Description

The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences is built on the site of MIT's legendary Building 20, a "temporary" timber-framed building constructed during World War II that served as a breeding ground for many of the great ideas that were born at MIT. Designed by renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, the Stata Center is meant to carry on Building 20's innovative and serendipitous spirit, and to foster interaction and collaboration across many disciplines. The bu...

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Location

33 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

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