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On Monday, October 26, 2020, the Department hosted a series of online information sessions to enable prospective Master of Architecture (MArch) and Master of Science (Architecture Studies, SMArchS; Art, Culture and Technology, SMACT; Building Technology, SMBT) students to learn about admissions, programs, school culture, and research at MIT.

Watch recordings of our Fall 2020 Open House Info Sessions

A project by Olivier Faber from Brandon Clifford’s Fall 2019 Architecture Design Core Studio I

Learn about our Core studios

Launched this Summer, out of frame is a student-edited platform supported by MIT Architecture.

out of frame: November and December posts

Doctoral student ElDante Winston explores the difference between history and memory in Renaissance architecture.

If these walls could talk

Professor emeritus of architecture trained generations of urban planners, designers, and policymakers at MIT.

Julian Beinart: A life of carefully chosen words

MIT has been named the top university in the world for “Architecture/Built Environment” in the subject rankings from QS World University Rankings for 2020. In “Art and Design,” the Institute ranked No. 5 globally. This year, MIT ranked No. 1 in 12 of 48 disciplines.

MIT named No. 1 university worldwide for architecture/built environment, No. 5 for art/design

A student-led series of film screenings and conversations about the various ways in which the imagination of the built environment, architecture, landscape, and urban environments is mediated through film.

Fall 2020 Cinema and Architectural Imagination

MIT Architecture students stay connected through the Summer Work and Pedagogy Program

Designing from a distance

A project by Chen Chu and Nynika Jhaveri from Mariana Ibanez’s Fall 2019 Architecture Design Option Studio, “EPISODE 5”

Learn more about our option studios

As a part of it’s Spotlight on 2020 Thesis Projects, Architect has featured the thesis projects of Angeline Jacques, Alexandre Beaudouin-Mackay + Sarah Wagner, and Kevin Marblestone + Emily Whitbeck from the M.Arch class of 2020.

Archinect features M.Arch Class of 2020 Thesis Projects

MIT’s design minor and major programs give rise to polymath students with design skills they can apply to any field.

Design in a major key

Once displaced by war, MIT’s Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict

Rebuilding cultures through art, design, and community

Once displaced by war, MIT’s Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict

Rebuilding cultures through art, design, and community

A series of conversations on where we are now

MIT Architecture Fall 2020 online public program

Revitalized outdoor space will be redesigned along with Hayden Library by Sheila Kennedy's firm Kennedy & Violich Architecture in collaboration with Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects.

Building 14 courtyard to undergo renovation

A team of MIT researchers is using the thermodynamic properties of water evaporation to bring off-grid cold storage of produce to remote, arid regions.

Designing off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya