MIT Building 20
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MIT Building 20 was a famously makeshift World War II–era wooden structure at MIT that became an incubator for groundbreaking research and innovation across multiple disciplines.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
building
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research facility → temporary wartime building → |
| affiliation |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| approximateAddress |
Vassar Street, MIT campus, Cambridge, MA
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| architecturalStyle |
temporary military-style barracks
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| associatedWithPerson |
Amar Bose
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Claude Shannon → Harold Edgerton → Jerome Wiesner → Noam Chomsky → Walter Rosenblith → |
| constructedFor |
radar research
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war research → |
| country |
United States
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| demolished |
1998
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| era |
World War II
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| feature |
ad‑hoc modifications
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easily reconfigurable interior → labyrinthine corridors → |
| hasReputation |
cradle of innovation
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icon of creative disorder → |
| hostedDiscipline |
acoustics
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electrical engineering → electronics → linguistics → nuclear science → physics → psychology → |
| hostedOrganization |
MIT Acoustics Laboratory
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MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science → MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering → MIT Linguistics Section → MIT Radiation Laboratory → MIT Tech Model Railroad Club → Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT → |
| influenced |
MIT culture of hacking and experimentation
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design of flexible research spaces → |
| knownFor |
experimental atmosphere
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informal architecture → innovation incubator → interdisciplinary research → makeshift construction → |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus → |
| material |
wood
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| nickname |
Magical Incubator
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| partOf |
MIT main campus east side
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| replacedBy |
Ray and Maria Stata Center
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MIT Stata Center
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