For most of its 150-year history, MIT’s architecture department has occupied residual spaces. When the university relocated from Boston to the marshlands of Eastern Cambridge in 1916, the department stayed behind, where it had free rein in MIT’s original building. It did not cross the Charles River for two decades, by which point the Cambridge campus’s maze of neoclassical buildings had grown big enough to accommodate architects. There it remained, a warren of hallways, mezzanines, offices, and studios nestled among other disciplines, until its move this August to a 195,000-square-foot converted warehouse across the street.
Source: A Warehouse is Converted Into the New Home for Architecture at MIT | Architectural Record