The worlds of architecture and campus planning are buzzing over the news that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is suing Frank Gehry over leaks in the $300 million Stata Center, one of his ...

Lawrence Biemiller was a senior writer who began working at The Chronicle of Higher Education in 1980. He wrote about campus architecture, the arts, and small colleges, among many other topics.

Gehry was paid $15 million to design the building, which was partly funded by Bill Gates. Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell wrote in 2004 that the building "is always going to look ...

Gehry, for instance, told The New York Times that “MIT is after our insurance.” In a Boston Globe article on November 6, meanwhile, an anonymous executive at Skanska’s Boston office blamed Gehry for ...

Digital Journal — The suit says MIT paid Gehry Partners $15 million to design the celebrated Stata Center, but sooner after its completion in 2004, the building didn’t live up to expectations ...

Lawrence Biemiller was a senior writer who began working at The Chronicle of Higher Education in 1980. He wrote about campus architecture, the arts, and small colleges, among many other topics.

MIT is saying that “deficient design services and drawings” have led to leaks, cracks, mold and a $1.5 million reconstruction of the amphitheater at the Stata Center.

The suit says MIT paid Los Angeles-based Gehry Partners $15 million to design the Stata Center, which cost $300 million to build. It houses labs, offices, classrooms and meeting rooms.

One of MIT’s most recognizable buildings on campus, the Stata Center, designed by Frank Gehry, has apparently been having maintenance problems for the last few years. Since the building’s ...

The suit says Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid Los Angeles-based Gehry Partners $15 million to design the Stata Center, which cost $300 million to build. It houses labs, offices ...

The lawsuit alleges that Gehry Partners submitted flawed designs for MIT’s Ray and Maria Stata Center, a 400,000-square-foot complex that opened in 2004 and that reportedly cost $300-million.