Any no-name schmo could design a roof that didn't leak. But if you want to be avant garde, if you want to be daring, you must sacrifice your silly preconceptions about the function of a building and such pedestrian concerns as dryness.

"Because he's so daring, you figure you've got to be daring, too, if you're a client," Campbell said. "You know if you hire Frank Gehry there are going to be new kinds of problems."

I mean, you could keep rain off your head with a hat. But will people rubberneck just to see a hat? No! Be daring! Be wet! Leaks are the new thing in roofs! Wet is the new dry!

Building 20 will get its revenge on MIT. So, you want to replace a moldy, leaking, ice-throwing dump with ... another!

Perhaps Gehry thought that the building would have the same natural resistence to water as the paper cups and crunched up plastic bags that Gehry had his assistant scotch tape together in the mock-up.

The building design is a joke. Walking by, I feel like its 'skin' is going to slough off and onto the pedestrians below. Hopefully this means MIT is over its giddy obsession with starchitecture.