MIT by Douglass Shand-Tucci

Author:Douglass Shand-Tucci [Shand-Tucci, Douglass]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2016-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

McKim, Mead and White did use the corridor in some of the university buildings that they designed, but because these buildings were basically conceived as “pavilions”—which was the popular form of university building in the United States at the time—they cannot compare to the grand German Korridoren. The notable exception among the U.S. universities was the design in 1913 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which—modeled specifically on the German university—featured a wide corridor that soon became nicknamed “the infinite corridor,” that ran through the entire building. For decades, until the construction of the Pentagon (begun, 1941) [the Bosworth complex] was the largest corridic building in the world.

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