{"id":2418,"date":"2004-06-06T00:54:04","date_gmt":"2004-06-06T04:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/06\/06\/harvard-follows-mit-lead\/"},"modified":"2004-06-06T00:54:04","modified_gmt":"2004-06-06T04:54:04","slug":"harvard-follows-mit-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/06\/06\/harvard-follows-mit-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Follows MIT Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3444'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/laghery.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\"><i>Frank Gehry&#8217;s almost<br \/>\n        finished <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/11\">Stata<br \/>\n        Center<\/a> has been called &quot;the ugliest building in Cambridge&quot;<br \/>\n        and &quot;an eyesore on the MIT campus.&quot; Appearantly, beauty is in the eye<br \/>\n        of the beholder, as the controversial architect has just been hired to<br \/>\n        head the overall design team responsible for Harvard&#8217;s next-generation<br \/>\n        expansion into the Allston riverfront property it is currently developing&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Harvard University chose a team that includes Frank Gehry, the architect<br \/>\n      behind MIT&#8217;s much-lauded Stata Center, to create a long-range planning<br \/>\n    framework for the development of a new 200-acre campus in Allston.<\/p>\n<p>Gehry is world-renowned for such projects as the Guggenheim Museum in<br \/>\n      Bilbao, Spain, and Disney Hall in Los Angeles (pictured above). Last month,<br \/>\n      the $300 million Ray and Maria Stata Center debuted at the Massachusetts<br \/>\n      Institute<br \/>\n      of Technology;<br \/>\n      it will serve as MIT&#8217;s home for computer, information, and intelligence<br \/>\n    sciences.<\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2004\/06\/05\/harvard_taps_architect_gehry\/\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dowbrigade photo<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Gehry&#8217;s almost finished Stata Center has been called &quot;the ugliest building in Cambridge&quot; and &quot;an eyesore on the MIT campus.&quot; Appearantly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the controversial architect has just been hired to head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/06\/06\/harvard-follows-mit-lead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}