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3 Questions: John Durant on the new MIT Museum at Kendall Square. Read the interview.
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Your friendly neighborhood architect. Grad student Justin Brazier lends his design skills to community projects in the Greater Boston neighborhoods where he grew up.
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Fabric + form = a mask that uniquely fits your face. Department of Architecture doctoral candidate Lavender Tessmer has advanced the process to produce textiles that can be individually customized.
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“Thresholds 50: Before // After” is now available. A special 50th anniversary edition of Thresholds Journal, looks backward and forward. Learn more.
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Putting $100 Billion in Real Estate Tax Breaks to Better Use. Atif Qadir ’04, ’05 thinks real estate developers are leaving a big pile of money on the table for social change.
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Mobilizing across borders to address global challenges: MISTI Global Seed Funds program provides millions of dollars to advance international collaborations for MIT faculty. Read more.
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ACT alumna Kwan Queenie Li SMACT ’22 is among the 2022 Schnitzer Prize Winners. Learn more about the winning projects.
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This spring, undergraduate design major Karyn Nakamura ’23 transformed the iconic façade of MIT's Simmons Hall with a large-scale interactive installation. Learn more about the project.
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ACT graduate student, Christopher Benton is among the 2022 Schnitzer Prize Winners. Learn more about the winning projects.
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Cover, Thresholds 50: Before // After, Jola Idowu, Ardalan SadeghiKivi, Meriam Soltan and Antonio Pacheco. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022.
Thresholds 50: Before // After is now available
Edited by Jola Idowu, Ardalan SadeghiKivi, Meriam Soltan and Antonio Pacheco, this special 50th anniversary edition of Thresholds Journal, looks backward and forward, at pasts, past futures, and present possibilities. Thresholds 50: Before // After includes scholarly articles, interdisciplinary investigations, and creative contributions from art, architecture, and related fields that explore the thematic concerns of BEFORE and/or AFTER. Thresholds is the peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and distributed by the MIT Press. Learn more and read the issue.
Spring 2022 public program
Nicholas de Monchaux
Department HeadAzra Akšamija
Associate Professor; ACT DirectorLawrence Sass
Associate Professor; Director, Computation GroupTerry Knight
Professor/Associate Department Head for Strategy & EquityTimothy Hyde
Associate ProfessorNasser Rabbat
Professor and Director of the MIT Aga Khan ProgramChristoph Reinhart
Professor; Director, Building Technology ProgramSkylar Tibbits
Associate ProfessorSheila Kennedy
ProfessorBrandon Clifford
Associate Professor & MArch Program DirectorJackie Dufault
Administrative OfficerLauren Schuller
Diversity, Equity and Belonging OfficerLes Norford
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Out of Frame: Letter from the Editor 2021-22
out of frame is a student-edited platform supported by MIT Architecture. Angela Loescher-Montal (M.Arch 2023) has begun her term as the out of frame Editor for 2021-22. Read her letter to the MIT Community, as well as highlights from summer posts.