Bosworth's plan was notable for rejecting the prevailing conventions of separated buildings and retreat from the urban area, as was found in other new American campuses. The Great Court, renamed Killian Court in 1974 after President James Rhyne Killian, faces the river and the Boston skyline and "emphasizes the institution's openness to the urban environment and fulfills Maclaurin's ambition."[2] Killian Court was originally hard-paved, but was converted into a park-like area of grass and trees in the late 1920s. Bosworth had planned to install a three-story-high statue of Minerva at the center of the court, but funds for this embellishment were never appropriated. Today, Killian Court is the site of the annual Commencement ceremony, and is otherwise used for studying, relaxing, and playing Frisbee games in good weather.
killian, court, part, massachusetts, institute, technology, campus, cambridge, massachusetts, united, states, court, 2008general, informationtown, cityboston, massachusettscountryu, contents, history, features, references, sources, external, linkshistory, edit. Killian Court is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge Massachusetts United States 1 Killian CourtThe court in 2008General informationTown or cityBoston MassachusettsCountryU S Contents 1 History 2 Features 3 References 3 1 Sources 4 External linksHistory edit nbsp The court during a blizzard in 2015 Bosworth s plan was notable for rejecting the prevailing conventions of separated buildings and retreat from the urban area as was found in other new American campuses The Great Court renamed Killian Court in 1974 after President James Rhyne Killian faces the river and the Boston skyline and emphasizes the institution s openness to the urban environment and fulfills Maclaurin s ambition 2 Killian Court was originally hard paved but was converted into a park like area of grass and trees in the late 1920s Bosworth had planned to install a three story high statue of Minerva at the center of the court but funds for this embellishment were never appropriated Today Killian Court is the site of the annual Commencement ceremony and is otherwise used for studying relaxing and playing Frisbee games in good weather Features editThe friezes of the marble clad buildings surrounding Killian Court are carved in large Roman letters with the names of Aristotle Newton Franklin Pastevr Lavoisier Faraday Archimedes da Vinci Darwin and Copernicvs each of these names is surmounted by a cluster of appropriately related names in smaller letters Lavoisier for example is placed in the company of Boyle Cavendish Priestley Dalton Gay Lussac Berzelivs Woehler Liebig Bvnsen Mendelejeff sic Perkin and van t Hoff 3 The names are carved in the classic Roman square capitals using the Latin alphabet with V instead of U also I should have been used instead of J since the latter letter of each pair did not exist in ancient times Inexplicably the letter J is used anyway along with W which are both blatant anachronisms in the typographic styling of the inscriptions References edit The Backstory of Killian Court Jarzombek 2004 pp 94 113 Names on Attics of Pavilions MIT Archives Archived from the original on 2010 05 19 Retrieved 2011 04 20 Sources edit Jarzombek Mark 2004 Designing MIT Bosworth s New Tech Boston Northeastern University Press ISBN 978 1 55553 619 0 External links edit nbsp Media related to Killian Court at Wikimedia Commons 42 21 32 N 71 05 29 W 42 35877 N 71 09148 W 42 35877 71 09148 nbsp This Middlesex County Massachusetts geography related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Killian Court amp oldid 1134147261, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
