architecture archive

Making a splash in Zaragoza - An MIT-designed building featuring water walls that can be programmed to display patterns and images is being unveiled this week at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. June 12, 2008

Interview with the dean: Adele Santos - An interview with Dean Adele Santos, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, in which Santos discusses the school's goals and challenges and the role it can play in the future of sustainable cities across the world. June 11, 2008

Forum examines cities and climate change - The MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the Boston Society of Architects this week held its second symposium uniting leading urbanists from around the world and focusing on the challenges facing the modern city in a period of global climate change. June 10, 2008

Getting wrapped up in solar textiles - Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. June 9, 2008

Architecture awards - Awards given in MIT Architecture for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008

FEMA trailer gets new lease on life - A little bit of hurricane history has come to MIT. A FEMA trailer, one of thousands of mobile homes the Federal Emergency Management Agency purchased to shelter victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, is now parked in an MIT rental space. May 21, 2008

An earthquake's aftermath - Students and faculty from MIT's CityScope class visited a small Peruvian town over spring break to learn about the earthquake-stricken city's needs and how they might help restore water supplies, health-care and a sense of community. April 30, 2008

MIT Sloan's green future - Once it is completed in 2010, the new MIT Sloan building should be the greenest building on campus. April 16, 2008

Looking back at the Big Easy - A new book of essays on rediscovered photographs of New Orleans in 1867, written by the curator of architecture and design at the MIT Museum, shows how the city tried to rebuild its economy and retrieve its prestige in the aftermath of war. April 1, 2008

MIT symposium charts future of 'green' cities - The MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the Boston Society of Architects are staging the first of two symposia featuring leading urbanists from around the world discussing challenges facing the modern city in a period of global climate change. March 28, 2008

Book, exhibit showcase MIT faculty - When Andrea Frank came to MIT in 2003, she found world-class minds conducting cutting-edge research, eager to discuss their work. Today Frank, a lecturer at MIT, has woven together those voices and faces in the book "Visions: MIT Interviews." March 18, 2008

Grand pram: MIT chaise offers temporary escape - The coziest corner in MIT's Barker Engineering Library is Dreaming Lounge, a mocha-colored chaise with a green canopy at the head and a wooden lever on one side. January 18, 2008

Wearing their art on their sleeves - MIT students are always in motion, so their projects for the visual design course, Give Me Shelter, featured clothes and accessories to help navigate the gaps between work and home, self-confidence and unease, and under- or over-stimulation. January 3, 2008

Architecture students, alumnus saluted by magazine - Wallpaper, a prestigious international design magazine, has listed two MIT graduate students in architecture and a 2006 alumnus of MIT's master's program in architecture in its global directory, "110 Up and Coming Graduates" in art and design. December 27, 2007

Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. December 12, 2007

Awards and honors - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. December 5, 2007

PLAZmA calls for entries - The School of Architecture and Planning is seeking submissions for its PLAZmA Digital Gallery, an electronic showcase of SA+P work and events displayed on nine large monitors set up in the school's public areas across campus. November 19, 2007

Brazilian artist to visit MIT - Brazilian installation artist Ana Maria Tavares will be the 2007 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at MIT, visiting the campus from Nov. 12 to Nov. 17, and from March 2 to March 15. November 7, 2007

Joining the crowd - Two MIT architecture graduate students received global media attention over the summer after the MIT News Office publicized their idea for a "crowd farm," a device that would turn the mechanical energy of human footsteps into a source of electricity. September 26, 2007

Jarzombek named associate dean of architecture - Mark Jarzombek, professor of the history and theory of architecture, has been named associate dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. He succeeds Diane Davis, professor of political sociology. August 20, 2007

Lecturers top the iTunes U top ten - Professor Walter Lewin's lectures are legendary, and now his lectures and others from MIT are accessible worldwide through Apple's iTunes U. MIT lectures on physics, psychology, math and architecture have recently made the iTunes U top ten list. July 25, 2007

MIT duo sees people-powered "Crowd Farm" - Two graduate students at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning want to harvest the energy of human movement in urban settings, such as in a train station or at a concert, through a responsive sub-flooring that would covert footsteps into energy. July 25, 2007

'Digital water' walls this new MIT-designed building - MIT architects and engineers have designed a building featuring liquid curtains for walls, and it will be unveiled at next year's international exhibition in Spain. Its walls can be programmed to display images or messages and part to let people through. July 10, 2007

MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics - Engineers at MIT have devised a system for determining an area's landslide risk, a tool that could help planners improve building codes, determine zoning, and strengthen mitigation measures in mountainous tropical regions frequently hit by typhoons. June 25, 2007

New book shows ferment brews great architecture - As architect and architecture department head Yung Ho Chang points out in his introduction to "Certain Agendas," the renowned MIT design, planning and building community is "not trying to achieve a unified voice, since we are much too diverse to have one." June 22, 2007

Grad student revives Rivera's 1933 mural - Ben Wood, a second-year graduate student in visual arts in the Department of Architecture, started work on a project researching the murals of artist Diego Rivera in 2006. Wood seeks to bring Rivera's artwork and grandiose vision to light. June 13, 2007

Architecture - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007

Alumna heads L.A. renewal project - Martha Welborne, as managing director of Los Angeles' Grand Avenue Committee, is currently overseeing a project to revitalize downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Frank Gehry, the development will feature retail, office, housing, hotel, and park space. May 17, 2007

Ancient arches guide modern work - John Ochsendorf, assistant professor of architecture at MIT who studies historical design procedures, says we can learn a lot from studying exactly why and under what loads flexible lines will keep hanging and rigid arches will keep standing. May 16, 2007

Daylight device lightens electricity cost - By combining a tilting platform, an acrylic dome and a light source that mimics the sun, MIT researchers are creating a device that could lead to window systems that bring more daylight into buildings while controlling incoming solar radiation. May 9, 2007

Book portrays bold new campus architecture - The stories behind the conceptualization, design and construction of the Stata Center and four other major buildings are contained in William J. Mitchell's new book "Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century." April 26, 2007

Pritzker winner Hadid finds fluidity in architecture - Renowned architect Zaha Hadid presented an overview of her astonishing body of work to a capacity crowd April 10. Her talk, entitled "Total Fluidity on All Scales," was the 19th annual Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture. April 12, 2007

MIT conference portrays black architects' journey - Architecture has one of the worst track records for attracting minority practitioners. Why that is true, and what can be done to change it, was the topic of a two-day conference at MIT, "Architecture Race Academe: The Black Architect's Journey." March 21, 2007

Mentoring, inclusiveness draw aspiring architects - Wes Henderson got his first career counseling in elementary school, he told the audience at the Saturday, March 17 session of the two-day conference, "Architecture Race Academe: The Black Architect's Journey." March 19, 2007

Chapman foresees sustainable inclusiveness for MIT - Robbin Chapman (Ph.D. 2006) has joined the School of Architecture and Planning as manager of diversity recruiting, the first person ever to hold that position in the School of Architecture and Planning.  March 7, 2007

Exhibit shows work by Yung Ho Chang - MIT's first exhibition of work by Yung Ho Chang, head of the Department of Architecture, and his Beijing-based firm, Atelier FCJZ, opens at the Wolk Gallery with a reception Feb. 15 at 5:30 p.m. February 14, 2007

Suburbia gets neo-New Deal - An international architecture journal has devoted an entire issue to the results of an MIT urban design studio addressing how to rescue suburbia after the coming economic crash. January 10, 2007

Rich discusses how ideas drive building, city design - Damon Rich, a Loeb fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is interested in the "social dynamic of architecture and planning," he explained at a presentation Dec. 11 at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. December 20, 2006

Four centuries enrich architectural drawing - It's four centuries old and has been owned by a succession of architects and owners, but the Italian Renaissance drawing on display in the Compton Gallery (Room 10-150) is now a part of MIT's history. December 13, 2006

Koolhaas discusses future of cities - When a PowerPoint presentation by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas failed to work for his scheduled lecture, MIT staff quickly switched gears on Koolhaas' behalf and transformed the event into a "conversation" with faculty and students. November 22, 2006

Building expert describes studies of daylight - Using as much natural light in buildings as possible has many advantages over using artificial lights, if its penetration is appropriately controlled, said Assistant Professor Marilyne Andersen at a Building Technology Lecture Series talk November 8, 2006

Mitchell maps 'techno-sensual comfort zones' - "Visions of the future from a particular moment always tell more about that moment than they ever tell about the future," MIT Professor William J. Mitchell told his listeners at a recent lunchtime gallery talk. November 7, 2006

Green research unites Institute across disciplines - Green design research at MIT has one focal point in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where Professor Timothy G. Gutowski works on environmentally benign manufacturing processes. November 1, 2006

Lost Highway project designers will discuss cultural travel - Sarajevo native and architecture graduate student Azra Aksamija was among an international group of 40-100 artists and architects who, in summer 2006, traveled en masse along the so-called Highway of Brotherhood and Unity-a road made in Socialist Yugoslavia to connect the major cities of its republic. October 24, 2006

Homeless shelters - Students from Professor Jan Wampler's design studio course designed and built portable disaster shelters. October 18, 2006

Walking tall - Architecture Professor Wendy Jacobs, left, graduate student Hope Ginsburg and sophomore Adelaide Fuller cross Mass. Ave. on stilts they designed and built for Jacobs' Center for Advanced Visual Studies course. October 4, 2006

Urban housing showcased - The Wolk Gallery (Room 7-338) opens its 2006-07 season with an exhibition of past and current housing programs for people of limited income. September 20, 2006

Student design exhibit highlights creative process - With models that include a homeless shelter created from a used billboard and a children's AIDS center in Zambia, the MIT Undergraduate Architectural Design Program's exhibit, "Process of Designing," showcases how architects can explore social issues through their designs. September 20, 2006

Building bridges - Professor Jan Wampler of architecture tests the strength of a truss constructed by students for one of the architecture department's pre-orientation activities, held Aug. 26 in front of Kresge Auditorium. September 13, 2006

Freshmen to learn New Orleans' lessons - New Orleans will be used as a case study this year to teach MIT freshmen the complex dynamics of "cities at risk" -- cities that have faced destruction on a scale so huge that it calls into question their very survival. September 8, 2006

At MIT, coursework is an experience - The School of Architecture and Planning's new course on "cities at risk" is part of an Institute-wide initiative designed to make MIT's freshman year as meaningful as possible. September 8, 2006

Housing expert discusses work in bayou - For Reinhard Goethert, principal research associate in architecture, heading to Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck last summer seemed only natural given his extensive work on settlement housing around the world.  September 5, 2006

MIT Design Lab invents new urban systems - A new research lab, launched this spring by MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, is bringing design and engineering together in an entirely new way. August 28, 2006

MIT-Beijing design studio plans for urban future - For five weeks this summer, a group of 20 MIT graduate students in architecture, planning and real estate joined with a dozen graduate students from Beijing's Tsinghua University to work together on issues of urban design and development. August 18, 2006

eLens: A digital take on the streets where we live - A walk down the street may someday be as rich with information as the web, thanks to the emergence of location-aware technology. Not surprisingly, MIT is at the vanguard of this movement with a project called Electronic Lens (eLens). August 11, 2006

Three from MIT envision grow-your-own home - In the future, homeowners may grow their houses instead of building them. That's the vision of MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and colleagues, who have conceived a home that doesn't just use "green" design but is itself a living ecosystem. August 1, 2006

Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building - An innovative cell-shaped building will house a new biomedical research institute in Chengdu, China, thanks to an unusual crossdisciplinary collaboration between a world-renowned scientist at MIT and two former MIT students. July 28, 2006

Comfortable buildings -- hold the air conditioning - Operating commercial buildings consumes a sixth of all the energy used in the Western world. Getting rid of air conditioning could help, so MIT researchers are making it easier to design buildings that cool occupants with natural breezes. June 2, 2006

DUSP student aids New Orleans recovery - Members of the MIT community have had their waterproof boots on the ground in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi not only as civil engineers, soil engineers, architects and volunteers but also as community organizers. May 22, 2006

Skyscraper rises on campus - "Muscles," a 35-foot-high skyscraper designed to change posture thanks to a jointed spine and pneumatic muscles, was constructed in front of the Stratton Student Center at MIT on Friday, May 12. May 16, 2006

Architecture head Yung Ho Chang wins prize - Yung Ho Chang, head of MIT's Department of Architecture, will receive an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual award and induction ceremony in May. May 10, 2006

MIT dean judges sustainable projects - Adèle Naudé Santos, dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, presented $1 million in awards last month to winners of a global three-year competition on sustainable construction projects. May 2, 2006

Visiting professor chosen to design Rockport concert hall - MIT architect Alan Joslin, an MIT graduate and visiting faculty member, has been selected to design a new concert hall for the Rockport (Mass.) Chamber Music Festival. April 19, 2006

Conference explores cross-disciplinary work - Graduate students in architecture, engineering and political science will invite cross-disciplinary discussions of cutting-edge research projects at a two-day conference to be held on Friday, April 14, and Saturday, April 15, at MIT. April 12, 2006

Architect Holl builds on themes - Award-winning architect Stephen Holl shared some of the themes running through his building designs, including "porosity," a concept given concrete illustration in Simmons Hall, in his April 4 campus lecture. April 10, 2006

Housing designed with Louisiana in mind - Reinhard Goethert, principal research associate in architecture, is the director of a group that is working on a housing design and building initiative in part of hurricane-ravaged Louisiana. April 3, 2006

Famed sculptor Sze unveils Sidney-Pacific work - Sarah Sze, internationally acclaimed sculptor and installation artist and winner of a 2003 MacArthur "genius" award, has installed a whimsical miniature fire escape on the front of MIT's Sidney-Pacific graduate residence. March 22, 2006

Sze project shows arts funds at work - Sarah Sze's whimsical fire escape at Sidney-Pacific Graduate Residence is the ninth and newest project of MIT's Percent-for-Art Program, which allots up to $250,000 to commission art for each new major renovation or building project on the Institute's campus. March 22, 2006

New tool may reveal architectural past - A computer design tool originally created for animation may soon unlock the secrets of the structure of ancient cathedrals, according to MIT Assistant Professor John Ochsendorf of architecture. March 9, 2006

Three awarded MacVicars for great teaching - The 2006 MacVicar Fellows share a passion for education that has earned all three the respect of students and faculty alike. This year's fellows are Professor Leslie Norford, Associate Professor Dennis Freeman and Professor Samuel Bowring. March 8, 2006

Tsunami project exhibit - Rui Borges, house manager at Simmons Hall, checks out a panel from 'Sri Lanka: A Year After Tsunami,' an exhibition on the Tsunami Safe(r) Design, a project to build tsunami-resistant houses. March 8, 2006

New directions for digital design on display - "Digital_minimal," a new exhibition in the School of Architecture and Planning's Wolk Gallery, explores a number of alternative directions for our digital future. March 1, 2006

Prof offers perspective on hosting Olympics - The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, may have ended on Sunday, but hosting Olympic Games can affect cities for years to come, according to Julian Beinart, professor of architecture and author of several papers on the subject. February 28, 2006

Virtual forms for buildings and society - Two MIT faculty members presented research and offered innovative perspectives on building technology and digital literacy at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held February 16-20 in St. Louis. February 23, 2006

Wodiczko honored by exhibits in Poland - Krzysztof Wodiczko, professor of visual arts at MIT, returned recently to Poland in conjunction with two exhibitions of his work, one in Krakow and the other in Warsaw. December 21, 2005

Urban studies shines in series - Innovative design practices and recent research in urban security issues were highlighted in a series of talks presented to midcareer international students by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. December 14, 2005

MIT Museum shows pioneering designs - A new exhibit at the MIT Museum highlights the work of Richard Filipowski, a sculptor of international reputation who taught visual design here for 36 years. December 14, 2005

MIT opens world's largest neuroscience center - On Friday afternoon, Dec. 2, MIT officially opened the new Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, the largest neuroscience research center in the world. December 2, 2005

A celebration in pictures - The 90-foot-high atrium of the new Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex was the place to be on Thursday, Dec. 1, and Friday, Dec. 2, as MIT celebrated the official opening of the largest neuroscience complex in the world. December 2, 2005

New architecture brings scientists together - During the past two years, an extraordinary facility has risen from a dirt field intersected by a freight rail line: the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex. And although it won't be formally dedicated until Friday, Dec. 2, its occupants are already hard at work. November 29, 2005

Exhibit shows this wireless campus never sleeps - MIT unwired last month when Information Services & Technology installed the last of 2,800 wireless access points, making the MIT campus one of the largest geographic entities -- about 9.4 million square feet -- served by a single wireless network. November 1, 2005

Cuban architecture on view - The results of the Cuban government's ambitious national building program designed to support the socialist agenda of Fidel Castro's regime can be seen in "Architecture and Revolution in Cuba: 1959-1969," on view at the Wolk Gallery. October 26, 2005

Architectural wonders, chapel, Kresge turn 50 - Two once-controversial additions to MIT's evolving campus celebrate 50 years of service to the spiritual and creative life of the Institute community this year. October 19, 2005

Students design and build homeless shelters - You'd be surprised what students can make out of stuff other people throw away. Eighteen architecture majors were assigned the task this fall of designing and building one-person homeless shelters from recycled materials found in and around MIT and Cambridge. October 5, 2005

Architects build on history - Local architects looking for sustainable building materials might try the dirt under their feet, say a team of architecture students at MIT, who built a garden wall using an ancient construction technique called "rammed earth" to test the method with New England soils. September 16, 2005

MIT researchers map city by cellphone - Can you see me now? Researchers at MIT may not be able to hear your cellphone call, but they have found a way to see it. They mapped a city in real time by monitoring the usage of tens of thousands of cellphones. September 14, 2005

Reception set for winner of Schnitzer Prize - Video and photography by architecture graduate student Luis Berríos-Negrón won first prize in the 2005 Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts, and an exhibition of these works will open with a reception on Thursday, Sept. 15. September 14, 2005

Professor to appear on PBS - Krzysztof Wodiczko, professor of visual arts in the Department of Architecture, is one of the featured artists in the first episode of the series, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" premiering this week on PBS. September 14, 2005

Architecture's new head sees MIT 'treasure' - Yung Ho Chang, one of China's most accomplished contemporary architects and the founding head of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University, has been appointed head of MIT's Department of Architecture. September 13, 2005

Chang describes building blocks of his career - In an interview, new MIT architecture head Yung Ho Chang discussed his early experiences with built space, linking the young boy who played with wooden blocks to the seasoned architect and educator eager to work with his MIT students. September 13, 2005

Wampler plans African AIDS clinics - An MIT architecture professor has completed a design prototype to build at least 20 pediatric AIDS care centers in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. June 8, 2005

Architecture awards - 2005 awards listings. June 1, 2005

MIT team designs tsunami-resistant houses - Using high-tech engineering principles, an MIT/Harvard team has developed a low-tech solution to the problem of how to build homes in tsunami-prone areas. May 26, 2005

MIT to honor Daley - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley will be awarded MIT's 2005 Kevin Lynch Award on April 7 for his innovative, even dramatic measures for greening the Windy City. March 30, 2005

Architects honor Simmons Hall - Simmons Hall has received the 2004 Harleston Parker Medal as "most beautiful piece of architecture building, monument or structure" in the Boston area. March 16, 2005

Santos talks about women in architecture - Adele Santos, dean of the School of Architecture, presented an informal talk to the MIT Women's League that portrayed both the changes in opportunities and roles for women in architecture and planning. March 2, 2005

Poet of glass and steel - Santiago Calatrava, an internationally acclaimed architect, engineer and artist, will present a public lecture on Tuesday, March 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 10-250. March 2, 2005

Calatrava discusses recent work - Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish architect, engineer and artist, will present a public lecture, "Recent Work," on Tuesday, March 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 10-250. February 16, 2005

New Century Cities emerging - Some 150 invited participants convened Jan. 18 and 19 for the New Century Cities symposium. They hailed from four continents and from disciplines ranging from traditional city-builders to high-tech. February 2, 2005

Exhibit examines housing project - A new exhibition titled "Vertical City: The Life and Design of Pruitt-Igoe" offers a close look at the history of St. Louis's Pruitt-Igoe housing project. December 20, 2004

Pet Parthenon spruces up spartan doghouse - A pet-scale Parthenon made a brief appearance near the elevator in Lobby 7 on Oct. 12 and 13. November 10, 2004

Photos preserve Lebanon's architectural heritage - MIT administrator Joseph Homer Saleh discovered a true respect for architectural preservation in his native Lebanon. The photographic results can be seen in an exhibition at the Rotch Library titled "The (Fading) Poetry of Old Lebanese Houses." October 20, 2004

Artistry of Swiss bridge design on display - On Friday, Sept. 17, the MIT Museum begins a celebration of the work of a group of Swiss engineers who are widely recognized as the most innovative structural designers of the 20th century. September 15, 2004

Smart city cars in the 21st century - As part of the MIT Media Lab's concept car research project with architect Frank Gehry and General Motors, the Media Lab will present "Concept Car: A Work in Progress" on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 8. September 1, 2004

Architecture - 2004 awards listings. June 2, 2004

Architects trade views on Stata - Architects and administrators discussed the Institute's new Stata Center at the annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art on May 8. May 19, 2004

Novel idea - Books arranged around a bedroom theme provided IAP students with a novel solution to an old problem--how to recycle books. February 11, 2004

Novel idea - Books arranged around a bedroom theme provided IAP students with a novel solution to an old problem--how to recycle books. February 9, 2004

Adele Santos to be dean of architecture - Adele Naude Santos, an internationally acclaimed architect and urban designer and highly respected educator, has been appointed dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. January 14, 2004

A lens on landscape - Throughout her career, photographer and MIT professor Ann Whiston Spirn has sought not only to explore natural beauty, but also to plumb the invisible forces that create landscape. January 14, 2004

Photos exhibited in Compton - How do we read a landscape and what does it tell us? Photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn, in an exhibition of 45 color works, explore these questions. October 8, 2003

Dream village rising in wake of quake - The dream of a safe new Turkish community, hatched in the wake of an earthquake that killed at least 15,000 and destroyed dozens of towns and villages, is becoming a reality for 50 displaced families this summer. July 22, 2003

Lab homes in on home life - A "living laboratory" operated jointly by MIT and TIAX will allow researchers and companies to study how new technologies, materials and design strategies will change the way people live. June 24, 2003

Architecture prof models the future - The view from his office window at MIT isn't much, but Lawrence Sass can peer out and see the future of architecture. April 16, 2003

Mitchell to step down - William J. Mitchell, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, has announced he will step down at the end of this academic year. January 8, 2003

Team works toward energy-efficient Chinese homes - Researchers demonstrated that a group of energy-efficient low-rise buildings could provide the same living conditions as energy-consuming high-rise structures. December 11, 2002

Van Zante architecture curator - Gary Van Zante has been appointed as the MIT Musuem 's curator of architecture and design. December 11, 2002

Architectural resource to be launched - On September 27, 2002, www.ArchNet.org will be launched, the world's largest online resource of historical and contemporary materials on architecture, urbanism, landscape design and related issues of concern to the Muslim world. September 27, 2002

Architecture Dept. awards - The Department of Architecture honored 33 graduate students and seven undergraduates with awards for accomplishments this year. June 5, 2002

Site to help building designers save energy - An MIT web site will soon enable architects to see whether they can save energy and increase comfort by facing their new building south rather than west. February 6, 2002

Mitchell offer look at campus - Professor William J. Mitchell showed slides of the early days of the MIT campus and outlined the overall framework for the "largest, most ambitious building program in MIT history." November 7, 2001

Architects ponder skyscrapers - Tall buildings will persist in high-density urban cores, but enthusiasm for "super-tall trophy towers" may soon wane. September 26, 2001

Architecture lecture series - The fall 2001 Department of Architecture lecture series continues on Oct. 2 with "Nature and Architecture" by Takashi Yamaguchi. September 26, 2001

Eco-friendly Chinese buildings identified - An international research program is underway at MIT to identify new technologies, and applications of current technologies, that will increase the environmental efficiency of Chinese buildings. September 26, 2001

House may be architectural first - An architectural historian at MIT has provided the scholarly foundation for activists seeking to preserve what may be the first modernist house in Massachusetts. August 29, 2001

Architecture awards presented - The Department of Architecture has conferred 2000-01 awards on a number of graduate students, undergraduates and recent alumni. June 6, 2001

Sustainable buildings designed in China - Leon R. Glicksman is the leader of a four-year project funded by AGS to assist Chinese architects and developers in designing more energy-efficient buildings. April 4, 2001

Handbook for facilities - William L. Porter is one of six editors of a comprehensive new handbook offering the best practices for commercial, industrial and institutional facilities engineering and management. January 10, 2001

'Facilities Engineering Handbook' sets standard - William L. Porter is one of a team of six editors to produce new handbook offering best practices for commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities engineering and management. January 4, 2001