MIT School of Architecture and Planning

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Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating: A pathway forward
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Creating smart buildings with privacy-first sensors
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Projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence) were presented at NeurIPS, showing how AI transforms creativity, education, and interaction in unexpected ways.
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MIT Media Lab's Cynthia Breazeal among MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows.
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Good old fashioned mud: Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
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A collaboration between MIT professors of urban studies and planning and the Association of Ukrainian Cities aims to empower Ukraine’s municipal leaders to drive recovery after the war.
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MIT scientists and engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon.
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A circular economy in the build environment: A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders’ motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices.
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In a new book, DUSP Professor Lawrence Vale spotlights projects from around the globe that help insulate communities from climate shocks.
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally.
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Karyn Nakamura '24, a design major, and Alexander Htet Kyaw, a graduate student in architecture and a current MAD design fellow, have been awarded Steve Jobs Archive Fellowships.
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Designing for outer space: A new course this spring asked students to design what humans might need to comfortably work in and inhabit space.
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New training approach could help AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions
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Station A, founded by MIT alumni, makes the process of buying clean energy simple for property owners.
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DUSP Professor Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, and economically thriving city spaces.
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“When we talk about innovation, I think: Innovation for whom? And by whom? For me those are key questions,” DUSP's Catherine D’Ignazio says.
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Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices.
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Study shows how households can cut energy costs
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Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.
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MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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"Out of Antiquity: an Exhibition"

Welcome to the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. At SA+P, a potent mix of disciplines and departments fuels innovation and energizes our drive for meaningful progress. Whether our community is designing systems or cities, objects or structures, policies or technologies, we are committed to working every day, at MIT and around the globe, in service to a better world.

Spotlight

2025 Kevin Lynch Lecture

Lecturer: Prof. Kofi Boone, North Carolina State University
April 24, 5:30 pm, at the MIT Museum

Information and registration

artfinity: The MIT Festival for the Arts

Explore the creative work of SA+P students, faculty, and staff.

Through May 2

SA+P Advanced Degree Ceremony

Kresge Auditorium

May 29 at 11:00 am

The Department of Architecture

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)

The MIT Media Lab and the Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS)

The MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE)

The Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)

Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU)

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD)

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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

April 15 | Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
New World Series: José Aragüez
José Aragüez in conversation with Rafi Segal, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism. Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism group.
Information
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm

April 16 | MIT Reads
Read the current book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski and join a discussion. Attend in person or online. The event is free and open to all, but registration is required. Get the book. More information.
The Nexus in Hayden Library
5:00-6:30 pm

April 17 | Sustainability Connect 2025
An annual meeting for all MIT committees, groups, and thinkers involved in creating game-changing campus sustainability programs at MIT. Information
Samberg Conference Center

April 17 | Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
Architectural Damage and Creative Engineering: Interventions in Cold War design and development. Lecture presented with the HTC Forum and MIT MAD. Based on original archival research, this talk explores how a distinct genre of transdisciplinary design became instrumental in U.S. development agendas across the Global South, examining its residual legacy in contemporary user-based design practice. More information. Register or watch the webcast on YouTube.
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm

April 18 | Territorial Design: Roundtable and student work exhibition
Organized by Chen Chu MArch '21 and DUSP doctoral candidate, this roundtable convenes four researchers, designers, and educators working across rural and urban contexts. Student projects from the speakers' courses will be exhibited during the event.
Information
Long Lounge (7-429)
10:00-11:30 am (ET)

April 23 | SMArchS Urbanism Lecture Series: Unworlding Energy
Presented with the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
Cave Bureau
Information and registration
Long Lounge (7-429)
12:00 pm

April 24 | 2025 Kevin Lynch Lecture hosted by the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Lecturer: Kofi Boone, a Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University
Information and registration
MIT Museum
5:30-7:00 pm

April 24 | Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
Jo Nagasaka
Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism group.
Information
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm

April 25 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 2025
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester.
Topic: Optimizing Mixed-Autonomy Traffic
Speaker: Alexandre Bayen
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

April 28 | Spring 2025 AKPIA Lecture Series
Topic: Making and Unmaking Land: Architecture, Environment and Dispossession in the Upper Euphrates
Aslihan Gunhan, postdoctoral fellow, MIT
3-133
6:00 (ET)

April 29 | MAD in Dialogue
MAD administrators announce three Chair Professorships and a new cohort of Design Fellows with talks and a conversation on the future of design education.
MIT Welcome Center, 292 Main St., Cambridge
Registration
5:00-7:00 pm (ET)

Through May 2 | artfinity
The Institute-wide festival featuring the work of artists from MIT and beyond.
Find the 80+ festival events here

May 29 | SA+P Advanced Degree Ceremony
Information
Kresge Auditorium
11:00 am-12:30 pm (ET)

EXHIBITIONS

Through April 14 | Interactive Fashion Collection
Ganit Goldstein's Interactive Fashion collection combines cutting-edge sensor technology with wearable design, showcasing garments that adapt, respond, and engage with both the wearer and their audience.
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MIT Media Lab (Floor 2)

Through April 20 | RugLife
A group exhibition featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists who use the rug as a medium to address cultural issues such as religion, technology, social justice, housing, and the environment. Included is Architecture Professor Azra Akšamija's "Palimpsest of '89."
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Museum of Craft and Design
San Francisco, CA

May 10-November 23 | Venice Biennale for Architecture
The large-scale exhibition is the world’s best-known showcase for architectural work. DUSP's Carlo Ratti is curator. Dozens of MIT faculty, students, and alumni will have work exhibited.
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Venice, Italy

Through Spring 2025 | Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age
An exhibition by DESIGN EARTH — a design studio founded by Architecture’s Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy — bringing art and science together to examine possible futures where outer space is both a frontier for human exploration and new territory for exploitation and development by private enterprise.
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MIT Museum

Through July 28 | Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights
Spanning the 19th century to the present, the exhibition explores the ways that artists confront human rights abuses and make human rights visible. One of the pieces featured is Michael Rakowitz’s (SMViS ’98) "The invisible enemy should not exist" (2022).
More information
The William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut

Through August 2025 | Hallucinating Ideas
ACT's Azra Akšamija's Hallucinating Traditions is a five-channel video installation that utilizes AI to envision future iterations of traditional fashion. Akšamija's speculative designs blur cultural and temporal boundaries, prompting viewers to reconsider the notion of "traditional" as a construct of the imagination.
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MIT Museum

Through Summer 2025 | Soft City
The work of Amanda Ugorji MArch '24 and Sophie Weston Chien, "Soft City" is a colorful cotton and wool textile that tells the story of the past, present, and future of Boston’s Black residents and the neighborhoods they live in.
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MIT Museum

Through 2025 | Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Renée Green’s installation that evokes the material and social histories of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while serving as a pivotal example of the artist’s conceptual and iterative approach to installation. Accessioned by the Art Institute in 2020.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Through Spring 2026 | Future Type
Research from the MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group aims to help us “see” code by using it to make artistically controlled, computer-generated visuals.
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MIT Museum

Ongoing | HOOPcycle
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
More information
National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL

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SA+P Wellness Program
Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online | Connect via Zoom here

Virtual exhibitions and activities
ACT lecture archive | Connect here
Department of Architecture lecture channel | Connect here

Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.

Spotlight

News

Advanced Degree Ceremony

Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time

MIT-LUMA Lab launched at two-day symposium

MIT students advance solutions for water and food with the help of J-WAFS

Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data

Global Commons and New Ecologies: The Inaugural Convening of the MIT-LUMA Lab, April 2-3

Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

Media Lab's Cynthia Breazeal among MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows

Scene at MIT: Artfinity brings artistic celebration to campus

SA+P in the Media

RECORD Talks with Carlo Ratti, Curator of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

Carlo Ratti's 2026 Olympic torch design unveiled

Why Boston is becoming the world's next leading longevity hub

What happened to China's "Ghost Cities?"

How space impacts astronauts' bodies

NASA astronauts return to earth

Architecture's Caitlin Mueller awarded most outstanding peer-reviewed research published in TAD

Why large cars are a public health hazard

2025 Venice Architecture Biennale: Over 750 Participants Researching How Architecture Adapts to the Future

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