Architecture of MIT

Francis Amasa Walker Memorial
Alternative names	Building 50
General information
Type	Dining hall (main floor) and gymnasium (top floor)
Architectural style	Beaux-arts
Location	142 Memorial Drive
Current tenants	WMBR, Muddy Charles Pub, W1MX, other student activities
Completed	1916
Technical details
Structural system	Reinforced concrete, limestone cladding
Floor count	4
Design and construction
Architect	Williams Welles Bosworth

Senior House
Senior House entrance on Amherst Street.
Alternative names	Building E2
General information
Type	Dormitory
Architectural style	Beaux-arts
Location	70 Amherst Street
Current tenants	Undergraduate student residences
Completed	1916
Technical details
Floor count	6
Design and construction
Architect	William Welles Bosworth

Gray House
Alternative names	President's House, Building E1
General information
Architectural style	Beaux-arts
Location	111 Memorial Drive
Current tenants	President's residence
Completed	1917
Technical details
Floor count	4
Design and construction
Architect	William Welles Bosworth

Rogers Building
Building 7 atrium
Alternative names	Building 7
General information
Type	Academic offices, architectural studios, library
Architectural style	Beaux-arts
Location	77 Massachusetts Avenue
Current tenants	School of Architecture, MIT Corporation
Completed	1939
Technical details
Structural system	Reinforced concrete, limestone cladding
Floor count	5
Design and construction
Architect	Bosworth & Carlson

Building 20
Building 20 time capsule to be opened in 2053. Until then, it is on display in the Stata Center, which replaced the older structure.
General information
Type	Academic offices and laboratories
Current tenants	(Demolished)
Completed	1942
Demolished	1996
Technical details
Structural system	Wooden post-and-beam, asbestos-cement shingle cladding
Floor count	3

Baker House
Detail of Baker House facade onto the Charles River
Alternative names	Building W7
General information
Architectural style	Modern, International Style
Location	362 Memorial Drive
Current tenants	Undergraduate dormitory
Completed	1949
Technical details
Structural system	Reinforced concrete, brick masonry cladding
Floor count	6
Design and construction
Architect	Alvar Aalto

The campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located on a 168-acre (68 ha) tract in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The campus spans approximately one mile (1.6 km) of the north side of the Charles River basin directly opposite the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

The campus includes dozens of buildings representing diverse architectural styles and shifting campus priorities over MIT's history. MIT's architectural history can be broadly split into four eras: the Boston campus, the new Cambridge campus before World War II, the "Cold War" development, and post-Cold War buildings. Each era was marked by distinct builds representing neoclassical, modernist, brutalist, and deconstructivist styles which alternatively represent a commitment to utilitarian minimalism and embellished exuberance.

The geographical organization of the MIT campus is much easier to understand by referring to the MIT map, in online interactive, or downloadable printable form. There is also an MIT Accessibility Campus Map available for download, which is useful for mobility-impaired visitors.

Buildings 1–10 (excepting 9) were the original main campus, with Building 10, the location of the Great Dome, designed to be the ceremonial main entrance. The actual street entrance leads from 77 Massachusetts Avenue into the lobby of Building 7, at the western end of the "Infinite Corridor", which forms the east-west axis of the main group of buildings. Buildings 1–8 are arranged symmetrically around Building 10, with odd-numbered buildings to the west and even-numbered buildings to the east. In general, higher numbers are assigned to buildings as distance from the center of campus increases.

The east side of main campus has "the 6s", several connecting buildings that end with the digit 6 (buildings 6, 16, 26, 36, 56 and 66, with building 46 across the street from 36). The "30s" series buildings run along Vassar Street on the north side of main campus. Buildings that are East of Ames Street are prefixed with an E (e.g. E52, the Sloan Building); those West of Massachusetts Avenue generally start with a W (e.g., W20, the Stratton Student Center).