Building 20 on MIT, home of a string of critical innovations that came out of WWII, designed as a temporary building, is beguilingly crappy looking. In reality,

Building 20 on MIT, home of a string of critical innovations that came out of WWII, designed as a temporary building, is beguilingly crappy looking. In reality, Building 20 ended up being an ideal incubator: you could knock down or put up a wall anytime you wanted (nobody cares if everything is temporary), you could stick your head out of the corridor and as for some Barium or copper wires from the guys across the hall. The entrances encouraged smart people working on different project to bump into each other. Building 20's replacement, a piece of Magazine Architecture designed by I.M. Pei caused the same innovators to be blissfully unaware they were working at cross purposes because they never saw each other in the glistening gloom of interior of that slab. http://mit2016.mit.edu/campus-cambridge/evolving-frontier/magical-incubators http://mit2016.mit.edu/campus-cambridge/evolving-frontier/ma...