“The Stata is always going to look unfinished,” @BostonGlobe architecture columnist Robert Campbell wrote when #MIT’s Ray and Maria Stata Center (Building 32) first opened in 2004. “It also looks as if it's about to collapse. Columns tilt at scary angles. Walls teeter, swerve, and collide in random curves and angles. Materials change wherever you look: brick, mirror-surface steel, brushed aluminum, brightly colored paint, corrugated metal. Everything looks improvised, as if thrown up at the last moment. That's the point. The Stata's appearance is a metaphor for the freedom, daring, and creativity of the research that's supposed to occur inside it." Photo courtesy of @tomberrigan . . . . . . . . #cambridgema #mit #boston #bostonma #mitpics #stata #frankgehry #architecture #igarchitecture #massachusettsinstituteoftechnology #longexposure #nightphotography #scenesofnewengland #canon #massachusetts