The Wiesner Building: Can Collaboration Vitalize Design?.

Newcomb, Leonard

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Publication Date: 1991

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The Wiesner Building: Can Collaboration Vitalize Design?

Newcomb, Leonard

Academe, v77 n4 p23-28 Jul-Aug 1991

In one Massachusetts Institute of Technology building, architect I. M. Pei gave up three crucial areas of the project to three other designers for the purpose of artistic experiment: the main public space; the atrium's skin, with its impact on material and color throughout the building; and the site itself. (MSE)

Descriptors: Art Education, Building Design, College Buildings, Cooperation, Higher Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Space Utilization

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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