The newly-opened Simmons Hall, on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is part of M.I.T.'s ambition to
impart unique contemporary architecture on their expanding campus.
Including buildings by Frank Gehry, Kevin Roche and Fumihiko
Maki, Steven
Holl's undergraduate residence hall (with Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects) stands
out with its conceptual clarity and brazen imagery. Envisioned
with the idea of "porosity", the building is seen as
part of the city and campus form, slices of each stacked ten
stories tall and almost 400 feet long.
