Founded in Boston, in 1861, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first university in the US to offer an architecture programme, its classes beginning in 1868, its curriculum based on a Beaux Arts model by William Robert Ware. A School of Architecture was formally established in 1932, with William Emerson as the first Dean, and a City Planning programme was introduced the following year. The School moved from Boston to the Rogers Building on the Cambridge campus in 1938. In 1944 the School was renamed the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and was to play a major role in the introduction of modernism in the US, the MIT Cambridge campus itself including works from the 1950s by architects including Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen, together with major structures by more recent architects including IM Pei, Stephen Holl and Frank Gehry.