Mit Baker House

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Mit baker house. Mit campus police 617 253 1212 or 100 from campus phones dean on call 5pm to 9am on weekdays. Until amherst alley was moved in 1984 pianos were be dropped directly onto amherst street. The famous finnish architect alvar aalto designed this beautiful dormitory building. Links and contact information.
Baker house located at 362 memorial drive is a co ed dormitory at mit designed by the finnish architect alvar aalto in 1947 1948 and built in 1949. Baker house is a student dormitory for the massachusetts institute of technology built by aalto when he moved from finland to mit in the 1940s to take up a teaching position one of many mit masterpieces built by eminent architects fleeing europe at the time. Baker house is well known for its annual piano drop the residents of baker first conducted piano drop in november 1972 dropping a deceased piano from the roofdeck to the ground below. 24 hours on weekends 617 253 1212 or 100 from campus phones mit medical 617 253 4481 violence prevention response 617 253 2300.
All rooms and common areas wiring. Alvar aalto 1948. His creative design promotes communication and interaction among all residents on six floors by having open study areas and lounges as well as a luminous dining hall overlooking the charles river. Baker house 362 memorial drive.
Division of student life. If you are looking for a great place to live on the water with excellent proximity to campus and great people baker is the place. Its distinctive design has an undulating shape which allows most rooms a view of the charles river and gives many of the rooms a wedge shaped layout the dining hall features a moon garden roof that is also very distinctive. Internationally recognized as a masterpiece of modernism baker house underwent a painstaking four phase renovation marking its 50th anniversary on the mit campus.
Cambridge ma 02139 usa. Welcome to baker house. He described the building design as a mix between a ski lodge and a ship. The renovation project team led by perry dean rogers architects associate architects for the original construction carefully balanced the integrity of aalto s design with functional upgrades.
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