• MIT students studying advanced product design explored sustainable chair manufacturing and showed their work in a community exhibition space in Venice, California. Read more.

  • Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters. Read more.

  • A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course MAS.S64 (How to Grow (Almost) Anything) leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology. Read more.

  • Hasso Plattner Institute-MIT Research Program on Designing for Sustainability will focus on sustainable design, innovation, and digital technologies. Read more.

  • Where Do Stolen Bikes Go? An experiment in Amsterdam reveals how pilfered bicycles are put to use. Read more.

  • Developing community around design: MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows chart a new course.

  • Power, laws, and planning: MIT urbanist Justin Steil studies how law and policy are used to replicate social divisions in the use of land. Read more.

  • A diploma, a discovery, and an historic legacy: the restored diploma of Robert Robinson Taylor, MIT’s first Black graduate — presented by his great-granddaughter Valerie Jarrett. Read more.

  • Graduate student Justin Brazier lends his design skills to community projects in the Greater Boston neighborhoods where he grew up. Read more.

  • MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit. Read more.

  • “Drawing Together” is awarded Norman B. Leventhal City Prize. Read more.

  • Fabric + form = a mask that uniquely fits your face. Read more.

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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June 1
The SA+P Commencement Ceremony will take place on Thursday, June 1 at 11:00 am at Kresge Auditorium.
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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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Upcoming Events

May 3  | Tomorrow's designers, designing today
This event, sponsored by the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) and part of Boston Design Week, will present innovative areas of design action by showcasing some of the key topics explored by MAD fellows during the current academic year. Information and registration here.
MIT Museum (E-28)
3:00 pm (ET)

May 4  | Memorial for Andrea Chegut, PhD
A celebration of the work and life of Andrea Chegut.
MIT Chapel
3:00-5:00 pm (ET)

May 9  | Energy innovation for a net-zero future
Researchers from across MIT will discuss current research underway, focusing on the five priorities in the recent publication, “U.S. Innovation to Meet 2050 Climate Goals." Architecture's Christoph Reinhart will speak on efficient building heating and cooling.
Register here.
Kirsch Auditorium (32-123)
5:30-7:30 pm (ET)

May 15  |  Aga Khan Program Lecture
Sharon Smith on "The sultan's architect called home: Raimondo D'Aronco between Turkey and Italy"
In-person only. Information and registration here. 
12:30 pm (ET)

June 1  | SA+P Commencement Ceremony 2023
More information here.
Kresge Auditorium
11:00 am

June 15-16  | MIT World Real Estate Forum 2023
The event returns to campus. More information here. Register here.

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