For more than 150 years, MIT's interconnected campus has harbored groundbreaking research across its expanding departments. Within these walls, innovations have transformed human understanding and experience.

Break Through reimagines MIT's historic spaces of innovation through abstract reconstruction. Some vanished rooms will be temporarily rebuilt, while others will be spatially recreated at the installation site. These replicas serve dual purposes: memorializing significant discoveries and humanizing the inventors who shaped our world within these campus walls. At Kresge Oval, where space, time, and history converge, these four walls complete MIT's infinite corridor—bringing hidden spaces of innovation to the forefront.

The project, embracing MIT's collaborative spirit, combines research from the Distinctive Collections archive with design that bridges departments, creating new connections across the Institute.

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