September 2004
The Idea Factory
Can Frank Gehry's phantasmagoric architectural forms inspire innovation?
By Rodney Brooks
It looks like a large-scale sculpture, in which leaning steel towers are fused with elements that resemble brick warehouse buildings, a bright yellow kiva, crushed soda cans, and a blindingly silver beached whale with a smokestack in its center. This spring, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory moved into a new building -- but not just any new building. We moved into the $300 million Ray and Maria Stata Center, created by the often controversial postmodern architect Frank Gehry.
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