CONTENTS
Ix Acknowledgments
Introduction 01 Linguistics, Not Grammatology: Architecture's A Prioris and Architecture's Priorities Arindam Dutta
Humanities 72 The MIT Chapel: An Interdiscursive History
Reinhold Martin
Sponsorship
106 How Useful? The Stakes of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism at MIT, 1945-1976 John Harwood
144 The Middleman: Kepes's Instruments Anna Vallye
188 Centerbeam: Art of the Environment Matthew Wisnioski
226 The Pedagogy of Prefabr-ication: Building Research at MIT in the Postwar Avigail Sachs
252 Experimental Dwellings: Modern Architecture and
Environmental Research at the MIT Solar Energy Fund, 1938-1963 Daniel A. Barber
The City 288 From Master-Planning to Self-Build: The MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1959-1971 Eric Mumford
310 Fuzzy Images: The Problem of Third World Development and the New Ethics of Open-Ended Planning at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies M. Ijlal Muzaffar
342 DISCOURSE, SEEK, INTERACT: Urban Systems at MIT Felicity D. Scott
394 Disoriented: Kevin Lynch, around 1960 Hashim Sarkis
Systems 436 Predictive Machines: Data, Computer Maps, and Simulation Catherine R McMahon
474 Alexander's Choice: How Architecture Avoided Computer-Aided Design c. 1962 Alise Upitis
506 Artist/System Caroline A. Jones
550 The Alternative Firmitas of Maurice Smith Mark Jarzombek
Networks 578 CASE and MIT: Engagement Stanford O. Anderson
652 Two Cambridges: Models, Methods, Systems, and Expertise Mary Louise Lobsinger
686 Toward a "Nation of Universities:" Architecture and
Planning Education at MIT circa the 1940s
Memories 718 1955-1956 : Bigraphy of a year in graduate School
Julian Beinart
740 Three Episodes, Three Roles William L. Porter
770 Arts/Science/Technology : Otto Piene in interview with Matthew Wisnioski
794 We were Bricoleurs : Nicholas Negroponte in interview with Molly Wright Steenson
810 Structure-Infill, Wittgenstein and other Matters
N. John Habraken in interview with Alexander D’Hooghe
And Arindam Dutta
Brendan D. Moran
Memoirs
718 1955-1956: Biography of a Year in Graduate School Julian Beinart , , ,
740 Three Episodes, Three Roles William L. Porter
770 Arts/Science/Technology : Otto Piene in interview with Matthew Wisnioski
794 We Were Bricoleurs: Nicholas Negroponte in interview with Molly Wright Steenson
810 Structure-Infill, Wittgenstein, and Other Matters:
N. John Habraken, in interview with Alexander D'Hooghe
and Arindam Dutta
Caveat 840 Newton's Apple Tree: A Non-Standard Version Edward Eigen
884 A "Techno-Social" Timeline
898 Contributors
904 Illustration Credits
905 Index