The School

SA+P brings together architecture, planning, design, media, and the study of the built environment at MIT. Working across buildings and cities, technologies and cultures, we explore how people shape the world — and how the world shapes us.

Campus Tours — MIT campus

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Overview

One of MIT’s five schools, SA+P is driven by complex questions shared across disciplines, bringing different forms of knowledge into relation and opening new possibilities for inquiry and practice.

Departments, programs, labs, and centers cultivate distinct methods and approaches, grounded in their own histories, while engaging design and making, computation, historical inquiry, policy, and artistic practice. Ideas circulate throughout the school, creating a bold, experimental, and open learning environment. 
 

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Interior of the renovated MET Warehouse at MIT, showing exposed steel framing, brick arches, and open multi-level spaces.
Metropolitan Storage Warehouse portico
Image showing the building of the MIT Media Lab

The Metropolitan Storage Warehouse
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Explore SA+P

SA+P Departments, Labs, Centers, and Initiatives

SA+P offers degree programs through different units:

The school is also home to labs and centers that support research, education, and interdisciplinary work:
 

MIT School of Architecture and Planning group picture in front of the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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