Inside the Sponge
Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 August 2006 to 19 November 2006
Inside the Sponge
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Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Wilfried Kuehn, Anousheh Kehar, Gili Merin, Dubravka Sekulić, Milica Tomić, Mark Lee, Talia Dorsey, Francesco Garutti, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Ross Exo Adam, IZK, Graz
24 September 2022, 3pm to 7:30pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Wilfried Kuehn, Anousheh Kehar, Gili Merin, Dubravka Sekulić, Milica Tomić, Mark Lee, Talia Dorsey, Francesco Garutti, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Ross Exo Adam, IZK, Graz
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Inside the sponge : students take on MIT Simmons Hall / edited by Carlo Ratti and Talia Dorsey.
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79, [1] pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans, portraits ; 18 x 25 cm
Montréal, Québec : CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture, ©2008.
Inside the sponge : students take on MIT Simmons Hall / edited by Carlo Ratti and Talia Dorsey.
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79, [1] pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans, portraits ; 18 x 25 cm
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Montréal, Québec : CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture, ©2008.
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Utopia sought : architecture's paradox of being / Talia H. Dorsey ; Christine Boyer, Mark Wigley.
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i, 96 leaves, [42] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
c1998.
Utopia sought : architecture's paradox of being / Talia H. Dorsey ; Christine Boyer, Mark Wigley.
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i, 96 leaves, [42] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
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c1998.
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The exhibition Inside the Sponge was the first in the series Students@CCA, which presents projects developed in association with universities and forms part of the CCA's mandate as an international research centre to initiate partnerships with academic and cultural institutions worldwide. This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition Inside the Sponge,(...)
Inside the sponge: students take on MIT Simmons hall
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$15.95
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The exhibition Inside the Sponge was the first in the series Students@CCA, which presents projects developed in association with universities and forms part of the CCA's mandate as an international research centre to initiate partnerships with academic and cultural institutions worldwide. This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition Inside the Sponge, organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and presented at the CCA from 10 August 2006 to 19 November 2006.
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