• Learn about recent work from MIT Architecture's Strategy and Equity Committee. Photo credit: Xuan Luo

  • Microbes Make Mountains, an exhibition by emerging architect and multidisciplinary designer Laura Maria Gonzalez, is now on view at MIT’s Keller Gallery. Learn more.

  • Professor Larry Sass among four faculty honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching. Learn more. Photo credit Terry Sass.

  • Philanthropy helps make the MIT MIT Department of Architecture a leader in education, research, and innovative practice. Learn more. 

  • The technology of MIT Architecture alum-founded Hosta AI creates detailed property assessments from photos. Learn more.

  • MIT architecture professor Miho Mazereeuw’s work on disaster resilience focuses on plans, people, and policies, well as technology and design, to prepare for the future. Read a profile. 

  • Telling stories in space. MIT Architecture alum Cagri Zaman uses immersive media to help people do everything from learning to play piano to learning how to handle heavy machinery. Learn more. 

  • Monograph, a startup founded by MIT Architecture alumni, helps architecture firms manage projects and design better buildings. Learn more. 

  • “Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project,” a new book by MIT Professor Nasser Rabbat, explores the life of the influential medieval Egyptian historian and scholar Al-Maqrizi. Read more. 

  • 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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  • Learn about recent work from MIT Architecture's Strategy and Equity Committee. Photo credit: Xuan Luo

Strategy & Equity: Recent highlights

Since its formation in June 2020, the Strategy & Equity (S&E) team in the Department of Architecture has worked to evaluate, challenge, and change our administrative and community responses to issues concerning diversity, equity, and belonging (DEB). Explore recent highlights and previews of upcoming work. 

Spring 2023 public program

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  • Photo credit: Mingjia Chen

Out of Frame: Letter from the Editor 2022-23

out of frame is a student-edited platform supported by MIT Architecture. Mingjia Chen (M.Arch 2025) has begun their term as the out of frame Editor for 2022-23. Read their letter to the MIT Community and explore the new website design at outofframe.mit.edu.

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