Programming materials for better designs
Skylar Tibbits creates smart materials that elegantly transform themselves to improve processes and products.
Department
Architecture
MIT takes next step in advancing Kendall Square Initiative
Institute files application for Cambridge Planning Board review.
Three undergraduate communities to welcome new housemasters this fall
Committees select faculty for posts in Baker, McCormick, MacGregor.
Park to be constructed at Bexley site
Interim plan will provide opportunities for student and faculty installations.
Charles Correa, influential architect and planner, dies at 84
“India’s Greatest Architect” left his mark on MIT and the world.
National Geographic identifies six from MIT community as "Emerging Explorers"
Students, researchers, and alumni among 14 honored as "young trailblazers."
Putting people before buildings
Architecture major Tiandra Ray designs spaces with a focus on community, not just aesthetics.
Sustainability of the built environment
Professor Oral Buyukozturk has catalyzed multidisciplinary ventures to advance sustainable designs for infrastructure in Kuwait and elsewhere.
Kendall Square Initiative ready to take next steps
Proposed building designs presented at two community meetings.
New memorial a labor of love
Architects and engineers detail their novel design for MIT’s Collier Memorial.
MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology receives $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Combined grants provide eight years of funding, among largest gifts received by the arts at MIT.
Norman B. Leventhal ’38, visionary developer and philanthropist, dies at 97
Corporation member helped create Boston’s urban revival and was a noted contributor to MIT.
Preparing Boston for the "big one"
MIT-SUTD postdoctoral fellow Ornella Iuorio explores structural retrofits to improve earthquake preparedness in Boston’s Back Bay.