The Ray and Maria Stata Center (/steɪtə/ STAY-ta) or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot (67,000 m) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The building opened for initial occupancy on March 16, 2004. It sits on the site of MIT's former Building 20, which had housed the historic Radiation Laboratory, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.