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Graduate student C Jacob Payne reimagines historic architecture and invents new possibilities at the intersection of AI and design.
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Research from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the MIT Center for Real Estate shows direct flights and links to key airports help multinational firms expand globally and decide where to invest.
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Cross-border collaborations are seen as a key to success for the MIT Leventhal Center’s Mexico City Initiative.
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Researchers at the MIT Media Lab created microscopic wireless electronic devices that travel through blood and implant in target brain regions, where they provide electrical stimulation.
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A new book providing a roadmap for blending innovation with tradition among shrinking towns blossomed from a practicum in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Open Call for inaugural, all-school exhibition in the Met Warehouse — the new home of SA+P.
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Two graduate students in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning have been awarded an Andrea Chegut Fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year
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A new MIT architecture design course explores how built environments can both emerge from and reveal the internal dynamics of their geographic context.
Welcome to the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. At SA+P, a potent mix of disciplines and departments fuels innovation and energizes our drive for meaningful progress. Whether our community is designing systems or cities, objects or structures, policies or technologies, we are committed to working every day, at MIT and around the globe, in service to a better world.
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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
February 6 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 2026
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all.
Registration required
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
February 10 | Gastronomy and Beyond Lecture Series
A culinary researcher, writer, and educator, Ozoz Sokoh explores food as a lens to understand culture, history, identity, and place, with a particular focus on West African and diasporic foodways. Sponsored by MIT Media Lab's City Science.
12:30-1:30 pm
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EXHIBITIONS
Now open | “Eulensicht” (Owl’s Wisdom) byAzra Akšamija
A new permanent public art installation by the ACT director and professor.
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Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium
Wuppertal, Germany
Through Spring 2026 | Future Type
Research from the MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group aims to help us “see” code by using it to make artistically controlled, computer-generated visuals.
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MIT Museum
Through March 13 | The Obligation of the Circle
An exhibition by Christopher Joshua Benton SMACT ’23
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Baró O-Contemporary
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Through March 28, 2026 | Treaties on De-Fences
An exhibition by Jorge Otero-Pailos PhD '01 (Architecture)
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Onera Foundation/New Canaan, CT
Through Spring 2026 | Future Type
Research from the MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group aims to help us “see” code by using it to make artistically controlled, computer-generated visuals.
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MIT Museum
Through August 2026 | The Equator Has Moved: Renée Green at Dia Beacon
ACT's Renée Green's major solo presentation.
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Dia Beacon
Beacon, NY
Through Spring 2027 | Janet Echelman: Remembering the Future
This large-scale installation by 2022-2024 MIT Distinguished Visiting Artist Janet Echelman, was developed during her residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). Architect, engineer and MIT Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller collaborated on the development of the piece.
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MIT Museum
Ongoing | Case Studies for Truly Public Housing
Chris Moyer MCP '22, MArch '22 and Suzanne Schindler, a former SA+P visiting lecturer, focus on the Cambridge Housing Authority in Massachusetts examining how the CHA performed a series of contradictory maneuvers to completely overhaul their deteriorating housing stock.
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National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
Ongoing | HOOPcycle
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
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National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
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