Images of Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Eero Saarinen, 1954, Boston, Massachusetts. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.

Kresge Auditorium, MIT campus

Eero Saarinen
1954

The dome-like roof, a concrete shell, is supported only on three points. Saarinen said it was "one-eighth of an orange." The three "walls" are of glass.




Details with Kresge Chapel in the background

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Kresge Auditorium, MIT campus

The dome-like roof, a concrete shell, is supported only on three points. Saarinen said it was "one-eighth of an orange." The three "walls" are of glass.

Details with Kresge Chapel in the background