MIT School of Architecture and Planning

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Three SA+P students are the recipients of the 2025 Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts, awarded for excellence in a body of work.
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Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time
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MIT scientists and engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon.
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A collaboration between MIT professors of urban studies and planning and the Association of Ukrainian Cities aims to empower Ukraine’s municipal leaders to drive recovery after the war.
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Inaugural MIT Morningside Academy for Design professorships named.
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Wearable device tracks individual cells in the bloodstream in real time.
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MIT-LUMA Lab launched at two-day symposium
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Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating: A pathway forward
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MIT Media Lab's Cynthia Breazeal among MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows.
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In a new book, DUSP Professor Lawrence Vale spotlights projects from around the globe that help insulate communities from climate shocks.
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Creating smart buildings with privacy-first sensors
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Good old fashioned mud: Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
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Projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence) were presented at NeurIPS, showing how AI transforms creativity, education, and interaction in unexpected ways.
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally.
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Karyn Nakamura '24, a design major, and Alexander Htet Kyaw, a graduate student in architecture and a current MAD design fellow, have been awarded Steve Jobs Archive Fellowships.
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Designing for outer space: A new course this spring asked students to design what humans might need to comfortably work in and inhabit space.
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New training approach could help AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions
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Station A, founded by MIT alumni, makes the process of buying clean energy simple for property owners.
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DUSP Professor Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, and economically thriving city spaces.
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“When we talk about innovation, I think: Innovation for whom? And by whom? For me those are key questions,” DUSP's Catherine D’Ignazio says.
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A circular economy in the build environment: A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders’ motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices.
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Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices.
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Study shows how households can cut energy costs
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Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.
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MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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"Out of Antiquity: an Exhibition"

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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MIT at the Venice Biennale

SA+P faculty share work at the world’s largest exhibition focusing on architecture.

Through November 23

The Next Earth

MIT Architecture's collateral event at the Venice Biennale

Through November 23

The Department of Architecture

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)

The MIT Media Lab and the Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS)

The MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE)

The Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)

Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU)

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD)

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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

EXHIBITIONS

May 9-November 23 | The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
An official collateral event of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the exhibition stages a dialogue between two pioneering research initiatives: Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet.
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Venice, Italy

May 10-November 23 | Venice Biennale of Architecture
The large-scale exhibition is the world’s best-known showcase for architectural work. DUSP's Carlo Ratti is curator. Dozens of MIT faculty, students, and alumni will have work exhibited.
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Venice, Italy

Through Spring 2025 | Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age
An exhibition by DESIGN EARTH — a design studio founded by Architecture’s Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy — bringing art and science together to examine possible futures where outer space is both a frontier for human exploration and new territory for exploitation and development by private enterprise.
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MIT Museum

Through July 28 | Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights
Spanning the 19th century to the present, the exhibition explores the ways that artists confront human rights abuses and make human rights visible. One of the pieces featured is Michael Rakowitz’s (SMViS ’98) "The invisible enemy should not exist" (2022).
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The William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut

Through August 2025 | Hallucinating Ideas
ACT's Azra Akšamija's Hallucinating Traditions is a five-channel video installation that utilizes AI to envision future iterations of traditional fashion. Akšamija's speculative designs blur cultural and temporal boundaries, prompting viewers to reconsider the notion of "traditional" as a construct of the imagination.
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MIT Museum

Through 2025 | Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Renée Green’s installation that evokes the material and social histories of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while serving as a pivotal example of the artist’s conceptual and iterative approach to installation. Accessioned by the Art Institute in 2020.
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Art Institute of Chicago

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

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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SA+P Wellness Program
Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online | Connect via Zoom here

Virtual exhibitions and activities
ACT lecture archive | Connect here
Department of Architecture lecture channel | Connect here

Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.

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News

Combining technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning

Students and staff work together for MIT’s first “No Mow May”

After more than a decade of successes, ESI’s work will spread out across the Institute

Faces of MIT: Lorena Tovar

Highlights from MIT’s first-ever Artfinity festival

At MIT, Lindsay Caplan reflects on artistic crossroads where humans and machines meet

Advanced Degree Ceremony

The 2025 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

How we think about protecting data

SA+P in the Media

How to play the longevity economy

Bringing Community Voices Into Renewable Energy Planning

'Architecture is survival': interview with Carlo Ratti at the 2025 Venice Biennale

‘Architecture Is About Survival’: An interview with 2025 Venice Biennale Curator Carlo Ratti

Venice Architecture Biennale's Carlo Ratti: People talk about mitigating climate change harm but it's too late

RECORD Talks with Carlo Ratti, Curator of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

Carlo Ratti's 2026 Olympic torch design unveiled

MIT Media Lab to put human flourishing at the heart of AI R&D

Why Boston is becoming the world's next leading longevity hub

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