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Put a new light where you want, knock out a wall.вЂќ Says a Stata linguist: вЂњAny kind of scientific work is always under construction, always still being built. Says Gehry: вЂњIвЂ™m happy when the building is forgiving enough so you can do things to it without destroying it. And like any good public space, itвЂ™s open day and night.

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вЂњItвЂ™s full of nooks and crannies where people stop and talk.вЂќ The Street is a deliberate reinvention of MITвЂ™s famed вЂњInfinite Corridor,вЂќ the drab heart of the old campus. ItвЂ™s also a place to promenade.вЂќ Students can plug in their laptops almost anywhere on the Street. вЂњThereвЂ™s a random collection of tables where students flop and study. Visitors stare at the life-size porcelain cow, enthroned atop a coffee shop, that MIT student hackers once, um, liberated from a suburban steakhouse. Student advocates push petitions or memberships. Classes spill regularly from lecture halls and classrooms. Undergrads in gym shorts head for the health club and pool.

At five oвЂ™clock, tots pile out of the day-care center to meet their parents. In the morning, professors climb stairs from the underground garage, stop for a cappuccino, then stride the Street to their elevators (the Street, wisely, is the sole pedestrian way out of the garage). The Street is like the high street in a British village. Walls angle in and out, often in bright colors. Sometimes itвЂ™s narrow, sometimes wide, sometimes high, sometimes low.

ItвЂ™s an indoor walkway that meanders through the StataвЂ™s ground floor. The Student Street is a great architectural space. He says of the Stata, вЂњIвЂ™m fine with it.вЂќ But he works mostly at home. He misses the squirrels that used to run around inside the walls of his old office. He complains about his sloping wall, which means he canвЂ™t put bookshelves on it and canвЂ™t reach the sunshade in its window. He says he never meets anyone by accident. Interiors provide a variety of spaces to gather.ДЄ voice of mild disagreement is that of Noam Chomsky, the linguist and political activist who is the StataвЂ™s best-known inhabitant.