 Alvar Aalto 's Baker House ( 1947 ) , Eero Saarinen 's MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium ( 1955 ) , and I.M. Pei 's Green , Dreyfus , Landau , and Wiesner buildings represent high forms of post @-@ war modernist architecture . More recent buildings like Frank Gehry 's Stata Center ( 2004 ) , Steven Holl 's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ) , Charles Correa 's Building 46 ( 2005 ) , and Fumihiko Maki 's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area 's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture " . These buildings have not always been well received ; in 2010 , The Princeton Review included MIT in a list of twenty schools whose campuses are " tiny , unsightly , or both " . 
