[Mitworld] New: Arts Forum celebrating Stata: Gehry and Venturi

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The MIT Office of the Arts
2004 Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art presents

  "The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture" (Part One)
in celebration of the opening of the Ray and Maria Stata Center for 
Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences

Featured speakers:

Jane Farver
Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center

James Ackerman
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University

Kimberly Alexander
  Architectural Historian

Charles Vest
MIT President

Part One provides an overview of MIT's architectural history as well 
as the history of campus design in general.  MIT President Charles 
Vest shares his insights about the Stata Center and overseeing one of 
the most ambitious building initiatives in MIT history.

  Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/218.


"The University as Patron of Cutting Edge Architecture" (Part Two)

  William Mitchell leads this lively and insightful panel that 
features two Pritzker Prize Laureates-- a must-see series of 
exchanges between Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi.

MODERATOR
  William J. Mitchell
Head, Media Arts and Sciences
Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences
Architectural Advisor to the President of MIT

PANELISTS:
Frank Gehry
  Architect
  The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and 
Intelligence Sciences
1989 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Robert Venturi
  Architect
1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Kyong Park
Founder/Director of International Center for Urban Ecology

John Curry
  MIT Executive Vice President

  Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/219.


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year of operation. There are now 202 videos in the MIT World archive. 
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