35mm, f/3.5, 1/2000 sec, ISO 800
Occupying 720,000 square feet and 2.8 acres and made of 2.6 million pounds of steel and one million bricks, the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has five classrooms, a cafe/food court, a pub, an athletic facility, and a 350-seat auditorium. Designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, the Boston Globe described it as “a work of architecture that embodies serious thinking about how people live and work, and at the same time shouts the joy of invention.” The great architect himself described the “geek palace” as resembling “a party of drunken robots [who] got together to celebrate.”