The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in 1861 as the cornerstone of Copley Square in Bostons Back Bay; then the center of a progressive; proto-globalist Brahmin culture committed to intellectual modernism and educational innovation. MIT founder William Barton Rogerss radical vision to teach by "mind and hand" was immediately successful.In 1916 MIT; growing by leaps and bounds; moved its campus to the nearby Charles River Basin in Cambridge; where it now stretches along the shore overlooking the Back Bay. MIT: The Campus Guide presents the history of the Institutes founding and its two campuses. Today; the campus is studded with buildings designed by noted architects such as William Welles Bosworth; Alvar Aalto; Eero Saarinen; I. M. Pei; Steven Holl; Charles Correa; J. Meejin Yoon; Frank Gehry; and Fumihiko Maki; among others. Alongside the architecture is a distinguished array of public art including works by Picasso; Henry Moore; Alexander Calder; Louise Nevelson; Frank Stella; Sol LeWitt; and Jaume Plensa.
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