Architecture

A view of hurricane Irma from the International Space Station

MIT map offers real-time, crowd-sourced flood reporting during Hurricane Irma

Via social media, residents can contribute to public map that increases safety and helps response planning.

September 8, 2017

MIT students, students from the University of Venice, and faculty members from both institutions pose in front of Venice's experimental floodgates as part of a collaborative summer workshop.

Saving Venice, MIT-style

MISTI interns and MIT faculty tackle rising sea level challenges at Italian research camp this summer.

August 23, 2017

Brenda Stern ’17 carves marble with a mallet and chisel, traditional Italian tools, during the MIT Materials in Art, Archaeology and Architecture program in Italy.

Exploring ancient engineering to inform the future

Materials in Art, Archaeology and Architecture program takes students to Italy for unique fieldwork experience.

July 31, 2017

“We are overusing natural resources. Why not be efficient with the climate?” Alpha Yacob Arsano says. “It is a misconception that building energy-efficient structures is more expensive. In the long-term it is much cheaper.”

Lessons from pre-industrial climate control

Graduate student Alpha Yacob Arsano wants to bring natural ventilation to the forefront of modern architecture.

July 24, 2017

“If you work near someone, you’re more likely to have substantive conversations more frequently,” says doctoral student Matthew Claudel.

Proximity boosts collaboration on MIT campus

Study: Being near colleagues helps cross-disciplinary research on papers and patents.

July 9, 2017

mSurvey uses text message-based surveys to gather purchasing behavior of people living in previously hard-to-reach communities in Kenya, the Philippines, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and other locations in Africa and the Caribbean. In return for their feedback, participants receive mobile money.

Illuminating the developing world’s “invisible” consumers

Texting-based surveys capture purchasing and behavior data from people living in remote areas.

June 21, 2017

Left to right: School of Engineering Dean Ian A. Waitz, graduate student Mary Elizabeth Wagner, and Alan Oppenheim '59, ScD '64, who is a sponsor of the School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring.

School of Engineering awards for 2017

Awards given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.

June 21, 2017

At a "pitch and demo" DesignX accelerator event, Department of Urban Studies and Planning student Riddhi Shah, lead for the Kumej project, makes her pitch to the crowd. Kumej is a light, collapsible seat designed to enable underprivileged students in India to carry and create their own comfortable work surface, whether at a construction site where their parents work or in a rural school.

Design innovations for improved life in cities

Venture accelerator DesignX unleashes entrepreneurs’ ideas to transform the built environment.

June 13, 2017

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2017-18

Ranked at the top for the sixth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 46 disciplines.

June 8, 2017

Albert Saiz, director of the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on the confluence of urban policy, economic development, and real estate markets.

3 Questions: How urbanization and revolutionary innovation are shaping global real estate

The Center for Real Estate’s Albert Saiz talks about worldwide trends affecting housing, commercial real estate, and investment in the built environment.

May 3, 2017

MIT researchers have designed a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building. The system consists of a tracked vehicle that carries a large industrial robotic arm, which has a smaller, precision-motion robotic arm at its end.

3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings

Technology developed at MIT could enable faster, cheaper, more adaptable building construction.

April 26, 2017

Tata Center students and staff pose with Ratan Tata (center-right), chair of the Tata Trusts.

Tata Center adds 14 new projects to its portfolio for 2017-18

MIT principal investigators will apply cutting-edge research to the challenges of the developing world, seeking a large-scale impact.

April 7, 2017

“Beautiful, unusual objects that were made hundreds of years ago allow us a different point of access into the past,” says MIT professor Kristel Smentek.

The art of the dealers

MIT’s Kristel Smentek studies art, collectors, and commerce in new ways.

April 2, 2017

Professor Tal Cohen presents her research and introduces the CEE community to her new research group, the Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Group, at CEE Research Speed Dating Day.

Annual CEE research showcase highlights diversity of research across department

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Research Speed Dating Day brings community together to inspire new ideas.

March 31, 2017

Engaged neighbors

Scholars at MIT and in Mexico collaborate on projects spanning design, technology, and art.

March 21, 2017

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