This MIT Hall is like the echo of past futurism
This is an image from another of those geektastic Boston Photomob walks. I love how they make me re-see my own city.
That day, we went out on a Saturday of polar frigidity. Everything was sharp, blue and white and cold. We wandered through the already deep and rigid snow banks, and shot the architecture of powerful, clever, techno-chic MIT.
This building, Simmons Hall, has an air of Asimovian melancholy to me. It's futuristic, but in a retro way, like the worn cover of a 1970s sci fi novel in a used bookstore bin.
At the very same time, I'm delving into the wonderful book Cityscapes of Boston, by Robert Campbell, which weaves the story of the city's built landscape going back to the 1600s, and its many layers.
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It has the effect of making me see buildings in terms of gestures and poses and pop cultural costumes, making a Georgian townhouse on Beacon Hill, and this lovely smartboy box, very much closer then they might appear.
