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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 delivery 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

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