Mississippi State’s School of Architecture’s annual Field Trip Week was Sept. 24-29. These field trips allow for students to travel to metropolitan areas to meet with architecture professionals, visit sites, and observe urban environments.
First-Year Studio: Dallas, Texas
Professors: Andrew Tripp, Francesca Hankins, and Ryan Fierro
Some of the places that the students were able to visit were:
- The Interfaith Peace Chapel by Philip Johnson
- Kimbell Art Museum by Louis I. Kahn
- Marty Leonard Chapel by E. Fay Jones
Kimball Art Museum
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Second-Year Studio: Washington, D.C.
Professors: John Poros and Alexis Gregory
Students were able to visit the following places:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
- National Building Museum
- Finnish Embassy
- Washington Cathedral
- Sidwell Friends
- Perkins + Will DC Office
- National Gallery of Art
- United States Capitol Building
- National Mall
- Monticello
- School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
- University of Virginia Lawn
Third-Year Studio: Chicago, Ill.
Professors: Bryan Norwood and Justin Taylor
Fourth-Year Studio: Boston, Mass.
Professors: Jacob Gines and Fred Esenwein
While in Boston, the students were able to visit several different locations:
- Old North Church
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MIT Chapel
- Kresge Auditorium
- MIT Media Lab
- Ray and Maria Stata Center
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex
- Baker House
- Simmons Hall
- Harvard University
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Sever Hall/Grossman Library
- Harvard Yard
- Austin Hall
- Gund Hall
- Harkness Commons
- Design Research Building
- Harvard University Science Center
- Peabody Terrace
- Boston City Hall
- John F. Kennedy Federal Building
- Boston Government Service Center
- Historic Otis House
- Massachusetts State House
- Granary Burying Ground
- Boston Common
- Paul Revere House
- The Institute of Contemporary Art
- University of Massachusetts
- Design Building
- Integrative Learning Center
- Fine Arts Center
- Northeastern University Museum of Fine Arts
- Trinity Church
- Boston Public Library
- John Hancock Tower
- Copley Place
- Church of the Covenant
- Phillips Exeter Academy Library
