Soft design for a sustainable world
Sheila Kennedy pioneers soft design techniques and materials to meet pressing global challenges in housing and energy.
Department
Architecture
Sheila Kennedy awarded $100K Berkeley-Rupp Prize
Second major award in two months for the Professor of the Practice in MIT's Department of Architecture
Sheila Kennedy honored for design innovation
Exploring intersections of architecture, digital networks and public space
Otto Piene, leading figure in kinetic and technology-based art, dies at 86
Professor emeritus of visual design directed MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974 to 1994.
Making change
PhD student Dina El-Zanfaly studies learning through making — with one eye on her native Egypt.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Rethinking architecture
Mark Goulthorpe teaches and practices new design and construction logics for the next generation of high-performance buildings.
Mark Jarzombek named interim dean of the School of Architecture and Planning
Historian, critic, and theorist has been a faculty member since 1996 and associate dean since 2007.
Graduate student Kaitlin Goldstein dies in India
Fourth-year student in architecture had been missing since a morning run on June 14.
Smart components that assemble themselves
Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.
Mentoring: It's the network
MacVicar Day explores how to create more ways to mentor MIT undergraduates.