Baker House Mit Dorms
Alvar aalto designed the baker house in 1946 while he was a professor at the massachussets institute of technology.
Baker house mit dorms. Year after year baker is the top choice in the housing lottery. The baker residents are known for being very social and friendly and so baker tends to become a place to congregate on the weekends to hang out or on weekdays to work in the lounges. Dance conference team dining. Opened in 1949 baker house was the first mit dormitory on west campus and the first with a dining hall.
The design forms a poetic and purposeful response to the charles river the mit campus and its students charrington 324. Although the architecture is magnificent the students are what make baker house an enjoyable and dynamic place to live. Its distinctive design has an undulating shape which allows most rooms a view of the charles river and the dining hall features a moon garden roof aalto also designed custom furniture for the building s rooms many of which are wedge shaped. At the baker house dormitory.
Aalto used the constraints of the river in his favor to express the fluidity of the water and render views to roughly 90 percent of the dormitories. Mit campus police 617 253 1212 or 100 from campus phones. Baker house welcome to baker click here for covid updates. For the class of 2013 almost twice as many freshmen chose baker as their top choice 305 than the second most popular dorm 157.
Mit campus police 617 253 1212 or 100 from campus phones dean on call 5pm to 9am on weekdays. Overall baker is a great community where you can meet great people make great friends and have a ton of fun while making your way through an awesome time here at mit. When described it is commonly referred to as a social dorm baker house was designed by the famed finnish architect alvar aalto at the time a visiting professor of architecture. To edit your guest list make sure you are on mit or mit secure wifi.
Mit baker house dormitory alvar aalto 29 may 2010. Maija holma alvar aalto foundation. Baker house located at 362 memorial drive is a co ed dormitory at mit designed by the finnish architect alvar aalto in 1947 1948 and built in 1949.