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Pre-school architecture critics
By adamg on Tue, 03/22/2005 - 9:11pm
Ezra reads a Cambridge Chronicle article about pre-schoolers (yep) defending the looks of MIT's Stata Center (that Gehry building). Ezra, who works across the street from the building, addresses one of the tykes:
... You are wrong, young Ben Donaldson, the Stata Center is actually very ugly.
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Stata center
That building was donated to MIT by Ray Stata, former CEO of Analog Devices. Interestingly enough, there is a Mulberry Preschool on Rte. 1 in Westwood nearby Analog's HQ with somewhat similar architecture.
no news
Hmm, guess there was no actual news that day. Of course kids are going to like that building. It looks exactly like every single building a kid draws! Fortunately, kids don't need to worry about things like leaking roofs or falling ice sheets.
HEE!
You're hanging out with some cool kids then. All the "normal" house pictures in art therapy texts etc. are a square with a triangle roof and some strangely placed windows. For a school, it's the same building with a bell on top, because, you know, schools have bells on top of them. For a store or something, you add a "Target" or whatever sign to said house.
:o)
Dr. Seuss
I'm betting pre-schoolers like the building because it looks like the buildings in Dr. Seuss books.
Or...
Also a bit like the buildings in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -- but that's definitely not suitable fare for pre-schoolers.
Funky Buildings
People said the same thing about another Gehry building, the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota -- I always kinda liked it.
And don't you think this part of the Stata Center looks like one of the Easter Island heads?