Upcoming summit spotlights impactful research on the climate crisis MIT Architecture faculty Christoph Reinhart, Caitlin Mueller, and Sheila Kennedy will lead sessions in Sustainability in Practice, a summit organized with Architectural Record at MIT on June 20, 2023. The summit will showcase... View full entry »
Evoking the historic impact that the late urban planners and MIT faculty Tunney Lee and Mel King had on the city, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu challenged the 2023 graduates of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) to remember to put people first throughout their careers. “Everything you... View full entry »
MIT Architecture is pleased to announce our spring 2023 public program; a continuing conversation on where we are now, centered on our department’s convergence of design and research. This semester, MIT Architecture will challenge and reveal the complexity of buildings, people, and plants... View full entry »
Two MIT doctoral students in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning have received the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. Courtney Lesoon and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Yarina are the first awardees from MIT in more than a decade. The fellowship... View full entry »
Thresholds 50: Before // AfterEditors: Jola Idowu, Antonio Pacheco, Ardalan SadeghiKivi, and Meriam Soltan.Submission deadline: May 1, 2021“Where were you when…?” A familiar phrase conjoining geography and a moment in time that marks out a sense of before and after. A collective stop. A... View full entry »
Cambridge, MA, USA, October 30, 2019 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that British designer Thomas Heatherwick is the recipient of the 2020 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100K prize awarded at a gala in his honor also includes an artist... View full entry »
Thresholds 47: RepeatCall for papers thresholdsjournal.com Facebook / Twitter Department of ArchitectureSchool of Architecture and PlanningMassachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts Ave.Room 7-337Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, March 20, 2018Paper... View full entry »
FEBRUARY 9-10Worlds & WorldbuildingStorytelling Space Group 02/15 – 6 PMKurt ForsterThe Sites and Sounds of Shells: Modern Concert Halls 02/20 – 6 PM Adrian Randolph | HTCBelief, Skepticism, and Touch: Some Thoughts on Saint Thomas the Apostle in Italian Renaissance Art 02/22 –... View full entry »
The MIT Department of Architecture invites applications for the Pietro Belluschi Teaching Fellowship and the Marion Mahony Emerging Practioner Fellow. Applications are due on March 23, 2018. Details are available on the Department's website. The Pietro Belluschi Teaching Fellowship, named in... View full entry »
SEPTEMBER 11 Holly SamuelsonTowards More Effective Building Energy Simulation12:30 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge, BT 11Trevor Paglen The Planet is a Sensor6:00 PM, E15-001/ACT Cube, ACT *Does not need weekly 12 Legacies of Discrimination in the Built EnvironmentGarnette Cadogan, Dayna Cunningham... View full entry »
Brandon Clifford, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, has been awarded The Founders Rome Prize for 2017-2018 from the American Academy in Rome for his project titled "Ghosts of Rome."Co-founder and principal of Matter Design, an architectural design practice in Boston... View full entry »
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MIT will host the 2017 ACADIA Conference in November 2017.Disciplines & Disruption initiates a dialog about the state of the discipline of architecture and the impact of technology in shaping or disrupting design, methods and cultural fronts. For the past 30 years, distinctive advancements in... View full entry »
MIT History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art Graduate Student Conference Call for PapersPOLEMIC!The polemic as argument has a particular form. It does not mince words; it hones them, sharpens them, collapsing the target of its critique. The polemic is a lobbed bomb; a sharp text... View full entry »
Thresholds 46: SCATTER!Editors: Anne Graziano and Eliyahu KellerFrom treatises to TED talks; postcards to propaganda; etchings to drawings, films, and blogs, architecture moves in diverse and curious ways. It is these currencies, which give architecture its agency, its authority and life. And yet... View full entry »
MIT NewsSchool of Architecture and Planning May 5, 2016Professor and Department of Architecture head J. Meejin Yoon has been awarded the 2016 Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) Teaching Award of Excellence. The jury cited Yoon’s “innovative and critical... View full entry »
Tom GeartySchool of Architecture & PlanningMIT NewsArchitects, artists, and designers from the MIT community will constitute a robust presence at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.With eight full-time and visiting faculty, four alumni, and numerous contributing researchers and... View full entry »
Thresholds 44: Workspace, edited by Nisa Ari and Christianna Bonin, PhD Candidates in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program, will be released on April 15, 2015. Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture, held in... View full entry »
thresholds 45: MYTHEditor: Zachary AnglesCALL FOR SUBMISSIONSVenturing into the proposition that architecture is as much constituted of stone, wood, and steel as the myths that collectively propel it into existence, Thresholds 45: MYTH will explore how architecture makes myth and... View full entry »
02/04 Fred TurnerThe Politics of Interactivity in Cold War America6 PM, Long Lounge/7-42902/08 Jan HaenraetsTerrace Gardens in Mughal Kashmir6 PM, 3-13302/08 Film Screening: Collaborations; a portrait of David Adjaye6 PM, E14-63302/09 Lucia... View full entry »
MIT ArchitectureFall 2015 Lecture SeriesSeptember17Christiane Gruber, Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab Uprising7:30 PM, Long Lounge/7-429 21Jaime Gagne, David Quinn, Sam Shames, David Warsinger, moderated by Les Norford, Innovation in the Built Environment: A Panel on MIT-Inspired... View full entry »
Course 4 / Bachelor of Science in ArchitectureWatch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/dE4wYfWeqlMThe Undergraduate Program provides both a deep and broad education in the field of architecture within the context of a leading school of science and technology. Situated in MIT’s... View full entry »
Lauren Jacobi, Assistant Professor of the History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Department of Architecture at MIT is this year's recipient of The National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies for 2015–2016. Her Rome Prize... View full entry »
MIT to unveil the Sean Collier Memorial, designed by Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, J. Meejin Yoon. The unprecedented, solid stone five-way arch structure to translate ‘Collier Strong’ into a permanent memorial for Officer Sean Collier.Via Höweler +... View full entry »
Lecturer Cristina Parreño Alonso and Assistant Professor Joel Lamere (with Cynthia Gunadi, GLD Architecture) are among the winners of the fourth Design Biennial Boston, organized by the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Boston Art Commission in collaboration with pinkcomma... View full entry »
Thresholds 43: Scandalous!, edited by students Ann Lok Lui and Nathan Friedman, was released on April 9, 2015. Thresholds 43 was designed by Azusa Kobayashi and Julia Novitch. Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture, held in over... View full entry »
05 Feb - 17 AprilBuilding Discourse: The 2015 MIT Architecture Faculty ExhibitionOpening, Wolk Gallery Exhibition11-FebWang Shu"Tiles Hill"6 PM, E14-63312-FebFrancesca Hughes“The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure and the Misadventures of Precision”6 PM, Long... View full entry »
Nisa Ari and Christianna Bonin, editors of Thresholds 44, have released a call for submissions for the upcoming issue, workspace. Submissions are due on May 1, 2015. Thresholds is an annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture.When an employee at Google’s... View full entry »
Since its founding in 2011, the Keller Gallery at MIT Architecture has set out to challenge the nature and limits of design discourse in an exhibition format. The gallery brings the spirit of debate, ambition, and design into the heart of the school. Each exhibition catalog compiles a combination... View full entry »
The Under the Influence book is based upon the eponymous symposium, which brought together scholars and practitioners of architecture in order to focus on one of the most anxious disciplinary topics: influence. The symposium invited each of the participants to illuminate a single term -- a... View full entry »
