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Architecture
Nathan Brown receives SOM Foundation Fellowship
Award supports travel by Building Technology graduate student to study architectural performance issues.
Nasser Rabbat and the Museum of Lost Objects
MIT architect and historian helps the BBC trace the destruction of Syrian antiquities.
Architecture symposium March 30 and 31: Exploring the campus then, now, next
Event welcomes more than 20 speakers over four sessions on designing places for inventing the future.
Inés Ariza selected as 2016 QuarraMatter Fellow
Design and computation graduate student develops digital workflows for design and fabrication.
MIT researchers create citywide building energy model for Boston
Detailed model can help planners meet climate goals, increase resilience.
Realizing your true (solar) potential
Mapping website tells building owners if going solar is worth the cost of installation.
3 Questions: Azra Akšamija's multidisciplinary practice in art and architecture
Professor's work explores blurred identities and representations of Islam in the West.
Professor Stanford Anderson dies at 81
Noted scholar and founder of the History, Theory and Criticism Program led the Department of Architecture from 1991 to 2004.
Love for Times Square
MIT professor, PhD candidate design Valentine’s Day pavilion for New York City.
Pushing engineering boundaries to spur infrastructure innovation
MIT hosts Infrastructure Innovation in a Changing Environment Conference.
Rethinking urban life beyond the central city
Associate professor of architecture and urbanism Rafi Segal envisions “dispersed cities” designed to provide greater sociability and sustainability.
Envisioning the future of water for 900 million people
Research from an MIT Tata Center team led by Professor James Wescoat is making strategic planning of India's rural water systems possible for the first time.
Charting a new course in Africa
John Fernandez and his colleagues explore urban resource consumption to help guide the development of rapidly growing African cities.