Ray & Maria Stata Center, MIT

Talk about unique architecture!  This is the Stata Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.  It was designed by Frank Gehry, and opened in 2004.

According to Wikipedia, "The building has a number of small auditoriums and classrooms used by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (EECS, Course 6), as well as other departments and on-campus groups. Research labs and offices of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), as well as the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Course 24) occupy the upper floors. Academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky and Ron Rivest, World Wide Web Consortium founder Tim Berners-Lee, and free software movement founder Richard Stallman also have offices in the building."

We had a nice tramp around the MIT campus this afternoon, followed by a delicious lunch in an old, converted fire house to top things off.  A gorgeous sunny day, and it was actually warm enough that I didn't have to zip up my winter coat!