Department
Architecture
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.
3 Questions: Arindam Dutta on MIT and architectural modernism
New book, edited by MIT architectural historian, examines the evolution of modernism during its postwar heyday at the Institute.
3 Questions: Alan Berger on cities and health
New report from MIT’s Center for Advanced Urbanism examines the best ways to help public health in metropolitan areas.
How green is your city? And how do you know?
In a new book, an engineer and an architect lay out a program for urban development based on the cold hard facts about environmental sustainability.
The ‘Great Rent Wars’ of New York
Historian Robert Fogelson’s new book uncovers the origins of rent control in a World War I-era fight between tenants and landlords for control of New York real estate.
SA+P students sweep visual arts awards
Honors for work that incorporates both old and new technologies
Real estate forum features talk on value of design
MIT places second in this year's CASE competition
Helping build cities through anchor institutions
Leveraging nonprofit resources to improve local economies
ACT professor among recipients of the Aga Khan Award
Art, Culture and Technology Assistant Professor Azra Akšamija is one of the recipients of the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.