Maclaurin buildings, including No.3, No.4 and 10, have a U-shaped structure around Kirian's courtyard, which is the farthest from the Charles River. This outdoor area is the venue for the official graduation ceremony in May every year, and it is also the classic perspective of many posters.
The Grand Dome, 17, is on the top of the building 10. It is designed by McGinn, Meade and White after the design of the Cicero Memorial Library of Columbia University. This library is also an imitation of the Pantheon in Rome. The dome was originally planned to be used as a huge auditorium, but the limited budget completely prevented the construction of the dome.
So a smaller library (Barker Engineering Library) and lecture hall (No.65438 +00-250) occupied this space. Mark Jarzombek, an architectural historian, later described the library space as "a huge round hole with light holes, surrounded by a row of Corinthian columns."
The four arc-shaped buildings at the top add anti-punctuality elements. Although more baroque style is expected by Bosworth style, the building actually looks like a complete replica of St. Paul's Cathedral in Christopher Lane. "
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Richard C. maclaurin, president of MIT, directed the relocation of MIT from Boston to the "New Institute of Technology" campus in Cambridge, and the building was named in his honor. The facade of the building 10 is a colonnade composed of 10 Ionian columns. The handle of MIT graduation ring (brass mouse) features the front of building 10, including the depiction of the big dome.
Bosworth noticed that the pillars of the Pantheon porch were not placed in a straight line, but slightly bent toward the central axis. The Parthenon in Athens also used this classic illusion to make the lines of the pillars look straight visually. Bosworth repeated this technique at MIT; If you want to observe it, you must lie down and look along the front of the steps.
Based on the psychological and digital centrality of its main campus, people in the MIT community usually call the Big Dome "the center of the universe".
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