Kresge Auditorium
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 | Kresge Auditorium |
| Designer | Eero Saarinen |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date | 1950 to 1955 |
| Building Type | school auditorium |
| Construction System | thin shell concrete dome, copper roof |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban park campus |
| Architectural Style | Structuralist Modern |
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| Notes | At MIT campus. Spherical-segment dome with triangularized plan. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Kresge_Auditorium.html |
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"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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- "The Story of Saarinen's John Deere Headquarters", by Louise A. Mozingo, ArchitectureWeek No. 542, 2011.1207, pC1.1.
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.
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. unit to whole diagram, p161.
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.
Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.
