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.
November 2, 2012 SMArchS Colloquium Mark Goulthorpe, Practising Failure Student Initiations
Mark Goulthrope MIT, 09/24/2010
Feb 9, 2012Concrete has been formed in rigid molds since its invention in Ancient Rome. Very recently however, the possibility of a new architectural and structural language has emerged based on the use of flexible fabric formworks that are shaped by an internal ...
The 7th Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture, recorded on March 7, 2013.
An art installation that allows observers to play with a magnetic field to create patterns in light.
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 MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative is MIT’s response to the March 2011 triple disaster in Japan.
Fabricating Networks: Notes on Biologically Inspired Design — Neri Oxman
A K P I A @ M I T 30TH ANNIVERSARY ALUMNI REUNIONNew Technologies for Interpreting and Representing a Medieval Islamic Suburban VillaGlaire Anderson - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
History, Theory and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art.
Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London; Research Associate, London Middle East Institute Many Westerners view the Iraqis as a tribal, clannish people unlikely to achieve modern statehood. This view must be ...
Kristina Ford, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College; Former Executive Director, New Orleans City Planning Commission Description: There's no love lost between Kristina Ford and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; he made it clear that she was not ...
Economics and the Sustainable City Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5:00-7:00pm MIT 3-133 Three urban economists discuss how economic principles will help cities to create a smaller environmental footprint. David Albouy, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of ...
Dr. Alan Wolfe, SM '56, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College Description: Alan Wolfe vigorously denies that a theocracy is rising in the United States. In his richly detailed tour of the nation's current Christian ...
