Frank Gehry's $300 million white elephant?

Figure as an architecture student, before I leave MIT for good I should at least take some pics of the new Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (aka CSAIL or Stata Center), the latest multi million addition to the school campus. Afterall, my tuition must have contributed, however insignificantly and minutely, to this overbudgeted architectural whimsy.

Monstrosity or work of architectural ingenuity? I'm still on the fence. On the outside, the building looks like a gimmicky bunch of crushed cans, cardboard rolls and boxes; but on the inside, Gehry celebrates natural light, form, colour and space like no other. The deal is: why does good architecture always come with a hefty price tag?