Building 20

Former home of the MIT Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy

One portal through which entrance is gained.

A couple of views from the back illustrate the variety of inspirational modern art (brown in left photo, orange in right photo) available for midday meditations.

Here, we see the corner of the building most distant from the RTG computer room.

From the inside, Building 20 has the futuristic feel you come to expect from MIT.
Left: a learning chamber is shown, right: an inter-chamber transport structure.

Other stuff about Building 20

As you surely know, the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy has now left Building 20 (as of August 1997) for our new home in Building E39. Building 20 will remain standing for around a year until everyone has been relocated, and then it will be torn down and replaced by a new building with the same number.

The Magical Incubator A fine collection of Building 20 lore.

• Building 20 (specifically D wing) on the MIT map
• Archives' building 20 page.
• The story of the H.B. Lasnik Memorial Hole.
• "Building 20: A survey" (article)
• Tech article - the fate of Building 20.. :(
• Tech article (boring asbestos stuff)
• Wired article (passing mention)
• Hacker's dictionary (Passing mention in the definition of 'kluge')
• TMRC The Tech Model Railroad Club, now in building N52.

The new building 20

• The new Building 20 page

Other Buildings 20

• Honolulu Community College
• Dirac Science library at Florida State University
• Chemistry building at University of Otago
• Bolling Field, historical Air Corps dormitory
• Marshalville School (c. 1825).