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...across the Charles River Basin on the M.I.T. cam pus. In 1950, M.I.T. commissioned Michigan Architect Eero Saarinen, whose wicketlike design for a Jefferson memorial in St. Louis caused a sensation five years ago (TIME, March 8, 1948), to submit plans for a new campus center with auditorium and chapel. Saarinen's idea: to challenge the age-old rectangle with a new pattern of spheres, cylinders and triangles...
Saarinen's small (130 seats) chapel is just as unusual: a simple cylinder of brick or stone that belongs to no century and looks somewhat like an oil storage tank. Since there are no windows, Architect Saarinen has set it on arches in a moat to get a dappled light effect something like Capri's Blue Grotto. The altar is near the wall, dramatically spotlighted from a small bell tower in the ceiling. Outside, to tie the whole project together, Architect Saarinen has designed a majestic plaza set with a mosaic of colored stones, possibly pink, grey...
Compulsory Chapel...
...estimated 2,000 students, alumni, and dignitaries marched around the Yard into the Tercentary Theatre for the exercises. The program officially opened earlier this morning with a Chapel service for seniors in Memorial Chapel...
Compulsory Chapel...