The Carpenter Center is LeCorbusier's only work in the United States. So influential, LeCorbusier is on the Swiss 10fr note.
By Frank Gehry, the building was supposed to mimic the Infinite Corridor, providing a "student street" on the ground floor.
The outer screen's opacity was specially calculated to ensure the building met Cambridge's strict 50%-closed surfaces mandate on buildings.
The first of the modern buildings on campus came as then President Killian sought to "humanize" the environment on campus and invited Alvar Aalto to do a building on campus.
One of many buildings by Luis Sert during his time at Harvard. Others include the Holyoke Center.
A small but beautiful work by Eero Saarinen, famous for the TWA Flight Center (Terminal 5) at JFK Airport and the St. Louis Arch.
The much maligned plaza is fanned shaped, as a reference to the famed palazzo in Siena, Italy (home to the Palio).
