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| Architect | Eero Saarinen |
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| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts map | ||||
| Date | 1950 to 1955 timeline | ||||
| Building Type | school auditorium | ||||
| Construction System | thin shell concrete dome, copper roof | ||||
| Climate | temperate | ||||
| Context | urban park campus | ||||
| Style | Structuralist Modern | ||||
| Notes | At MIT campus. Spherical-segment dome with triangularized plan. | ||||
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| Discussion | Kresge Auditorium Commentary
"This festival hall on the banks of the Charles River contains a little theater, a concert hall, and rehearsal rooms. It is noted for its graceful white dome: one-eighth of a sphere anchored on hidden abutments at three points. On the three faces between, glass walls arch upward to meet its thin concrete shell." — from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p116. | ||||
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Sources on Kresge Auditorium
Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan and section drawings, p160. — Available at Amazon.com Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. unit to whole diagram, p161. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com Toshio Nakamura, ed. Architecture and Urbanism Extra Edition: Eero Saarinen. A + U E8404, April, 1984. Tokyo: A + U Publishing Co.. Color photo of exterior, p50. Eero Saarinen. Eero Saarinen on his work. xNA737.S2852 1968. p40. Aline B. Saarinen, ed. Eero Saarinen on His Work. London: Yale University Press, 1968. section, p40. William S. Saunders. Modern Architecture—Photographs by Ezra Stoller. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3816-2. exterior photo, p124. — A wonderful & inspiring book of beautiful photographs by the master of architectural photography. available at Amazon.com Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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