From November 4 through March 28, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is presenting a large-scale video installation by Krzysztof Wodiczko focused on the experience of the current war in Iraq. Based on his conversations with sold...
A team including two students from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning placed second in the 2009 Chase Community Development Competition, partnering with a New Orleans non-profit to develop a real estate project to stre...
A team from the Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Research Group recently scored a $40K prize in a social networking contest sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The tools they developed to win the contest could turn out to be imp...
Kristel Smentek has received an award for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation in North America from the Council of Graduate Schools, an organization of over 500 institutions of higher education in the US a...
The School of Architecture + Planning has announced the launch of a new Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) focused on art as a research practice, developing methods for critical design investigation and experimentation a...
As of this year, MIT is offering a minor in energy studies to all undergraduate students, allowing them to obtain a degree in any major discipline while also gaining expertise in one of the world’s most pressing problems.
Unlike...
MIT Professor Emeritus of Architecture Eduardo Catalano, who taught at MIT from 1956 to 1977 and designed the Institute’s Stratton Student Center, died January 28 in Cambridge. He was 92.
Prior to working at MIT, Catalano pionee...
Sabrina Kleinenhammans (SMArchS’09) has won the first place $15K prize in a student design competition sponsored by AECOM, one of the country’s largest engineering, environmental, planning and design companies. The award was pr...
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has honored Joan Jonas with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her extraordinary contributions to the field of contemporary art. The honor was presented October 29 as part of the museum’s First Annual Art Awards, cele...
Twenty years ago this November, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of Berlin’s restoration as the political, economic and cultural capital of a unified Germany. The city that critic Karl Scheffler described a century ago as ‘always in th...
SA+P played a central role in the project that won this year’s World Building of the Year Award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. South African architect Peter Rich won the award for his Mapungubwe Interpret...
Joan Jonas has been awarded the 2010 Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize by the MIT Council for the Arts, given annually to a member of the community who has demonstrated excellence in the creative arts – architecture, visual and performing arts, and...
The Department of Urban Studies and Planning, in partnership with Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), has launched a new program of research, awards and learning to foster the creation of accessible artist space in communitie...
Nader Tehrani, newly-appointed head of the Department of Architecture (effective this July), has recently won two highly competitive architectural competitions with his partner in Office dA, Monica Ponce de Leon. The resultin...
When the catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, faculty and students from the School of Architecture + Planning were among the first responders in the academic community, much as they were five years ago when Katrina struck New Orleans....
The School of Architecture + Planning is one of three schools at MIT taking part in a global collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Singapore to develop new models and tools for the planning, design and operation...
Alumnus Edward H. Linde ’62, co-founder and CEO of Boston Properties Inc., one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the country, died January 10 due to complications from pneumonia. He was 68.
A major figure in Bos...