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.
Scientists tune polymer material’s transparency
Material may offer cheaper alternative to smart windows.
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.
MIT presents updated Kendall Square Initiative plan to City of Cambridge
Cambridge Planning Board delves into the Kendall Square plan’s details and expresses enthusiasm; process will continue.
Love for Times Square
MIT professor, PhD candidate design Valentine’s Day pavilion for New York City.
Plan takes shape for MIT sustainability
Preliminary plan sets priorities for sustainable buildings, stormwater and land management, materials, and greener labs.
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.
Novel digital design with brick
New design from architecture professor of the practice Sheila Kennedy respects history while advancing state-of-the-art masonry.
Interdisciplinary Design Conversations will feature Chuck Hoberman
Public event on Nov. 3 will highlight transformable designs.
Bringing MIT and India closer together
Tata Center Annual Symposium explores many pathways for MIT research to have an impact in India and the developing world.