Do you know the way to the Stata Center?
By adamg on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 10:11am
Could you hum a few bars? In any case, Suzie reports beginning to feel just a bit more like a Bostonian: Sure, she got lost on the way to a meeting at the Dr. Seuss building, but on the way back to the T, somebody else asked her if she knew where the building was:
... I couldn't help my excitement at actually being able to help another lost citizen. I walked back to the T station feeling like a true Boston resident who even knows my way around Cambridge. Next weekend I might even venture into Somerville. ...
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Whimsy's House @ MIT?
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When they were building the Stata Center, I used to bike by it all the time. (bows head in memory of Building 20, oh temporary pile of activity). I thought it was interesting that nobody got put in stocks for it, but they did use some red brick I guess.
Anyway, my kids were younger at that time and they used to watch a PBS series called Whimsy's House. Whimsy and her friends and family, muppets all, lived in spaces with woozy doorways and rooms with wacky angles and furniture that warped and wiggled.
I always thought the Stata Center must be "Whimsy's Lab", or might have been inspired by a pre-school muppet show? Who knows.
The real mystery: how is it that an MIT building east of Mass Ave is primarily known by a name and not a number? Heresy!
Stata Center
I prefer to think that this movie inspired the building design.