The unifying theme of all the school's activities is design. Through the design of physical spaces, and through the design of policies and technologies that shape how those spaces are used, we aim to sustain and enhance the quality of the human environment at all scales, from the personal to the global.
An interview with Professor Xav Briggs about his time in Washington DC working in the Obama Administration. Briggs has a national reputation for his work on social capital and the 'geography of opportunity' -- a policy and research field concerned with the consequences ...
Excerpt from an interview with Elizabeth Anne Watkins, MS Candidate in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT. In this video Elizabeth talks about her research into time-based media.
William O'Brien Jr., an Assistant Professor of Architecture talks about winning the Rome Prize and what he intends to study while in Rome at the American Academy.
November 2, 2012 Practising Failure Mark Goulthorpe, Assistant Professor of Architecture, MIT
November 2, 2012 SMArchS Colloquium Mark Goulthorpe, Practising Failure Student Initiations
Thoughts on SMArchSBill Porter, previous Dean and Head of MIT Dept of ArchitectureArindam Dutta, Associate Professor, MIT and Director of SMArchS Program
October 19, 2012 Subtraction Keller Easterling, Professor of Architecture, Yale University
SMArchS Colloquium, October 5, 2012 Nemesis: the PungentumamiGregory Ulmer, Professor of English, University of Florida, and Professor of Electronic Languages and Cybermedia, European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland
SMArchS Colloquium, October 5, 2012 (part 1) Student responses
SMArchS Colloquium, October 12, 2012Edward Eigen, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of DesignAnaglyptography and the Phthisiophobic Imagination; or, The Passion of Louis Braille: An Historico-Religio-Numismatic Essay
Architect Christoph Reinhart’s work is all about daylight and its effects: how people respond to light in buildings, and how it might be used more effectively.
The assistant professor of architecture talks about winning the Rome Prize and what he intends to study while in Rome at the American Academy.
A portrait of MIT's Department of Architecture.
DescriptionResearch conducted by the members of the Design and Computation Group in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture.AgendaThe MIT Design and Computation Group inquires into the intersection of geometries and algebras, shapes and numbers in order to trace ...
The DUSP grad students were asked a few questions at the party after the 2012 graduation ceremony.
Colleagues of MIT architecture professor Lawrence B. Anderson '30 created a video tribute to him in 1994 because so little was documented in one place about his remarkable life and work.
From the high Himalayas to the poles, the world’s glaciers are melting. What does this mean for your community and our shared Earth? David Breashears presents his stunning new images of the Himalayan glaciers to mark the MIT Museum’s opening ...
Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning Guest curator: Samuel Ray Jacobson, MIT SMArchS ’13, History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art On view April 20-June 10, 2012 Video for the exhibit created in conjunction with the symposium ...
