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.
MIT Architecture's Spring 2012 Lecture Series: SpecificationsRead more at: http://architecture.mit.edu/lectures/public-lecture-seriesMarch 15, 2012This Lecture, instead of linking architecture production to its proper history (history of architecture), ...
A presentation of a series of independent projects on the intersections of race, architecture and the city, Blind Spots represent spaces that may not be observed under certain circumstances. As a group, the projects explore the possibilities of descriptive terms and forms in architecture by ...
LightBridge by Susanne Seitinger, researcher in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and Pol Pla, graduate student in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, and the software team: Russell Cohen, Eugene Sun, Andrew Chen, Dave Lawrence, Daniel Taub, and David Xiao. Part of MIT's FAST ...
This video is a spoken poem on the life and death of Trayvon Martin, in a historical context. Poem text is below. What divine irony indeed, hoods are still causing pain. Retributions and chaos amongst our nation. Up from slavery, it has been the hood that has caused ...
The City Form Research Group is releasing a state-of-the-art toolbox for urban network analysis. As the first of its kind, this ArcGIS toolbox can be used to compute five types of graph analysis measures on spatial networks: Reach; Gravity; Betweenness; Closeness; and ...
Unflat Pavilion by Nick Gelpi. FAST Festival, MIT, May 7-8, 2011. Music: Mediterranean Tango by Pasqualino Ubaldini, http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/82896.
Part of the MIT FAST Festival, Unflat Pavilion is a freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDS that flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns and windows.
Yosef Jabareen, Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Charles Patterson, Senior Associate, C&O Resources, Inc.; Former Program Officer, Future of Iraq Project; David J. Nash, President, B.E.&K., Inc.'s Government Group; Former Director, Iraq ...
Winner of the NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, the video shows how TrashTrack uses technology to expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability. For more information go to: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/index.php
An interview of Nader Tehrani, the new Head of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT.
Final Project - Joubert Glover , Joshua Walker , Deema Totah scenes from 3 films: Match Point, Gladiator, The King's Speech
Although the idea of freedom is nearly ubiquitous in American public discourse — and perhaps no more so than today — it has been subject to a remarkable degree of flux over the course of the nation's history.
Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn.
The Mercury Game is a negotiation simulation that is designed to teach people about the role of science in international environmental policy making. To download the game go to: http://mit.edu/mercurygame
The CAU is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale
Hafez Mirazi, Washington Bureau Chief, Host of "Al-Jazeera Weekly"; Al-Jazeera Television Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab news network, wasn't the Bush Administration's favorite media outlet. But Hafez Mirazi states that his network's motto is "both sides of the ...
Architect Benedetta Tagliabue directs Miralle/Tagliabue-EMBT in Barcelona.
Rebuilding Credibility in the Face of Natural Disaster : After the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake struck the Italian region of Abruzzo, killing more than 300 people, six seismologists were convicted of manslaughter. Nearly three years later, the city is still rebuilding. In this event ...
A K P I A @ M I T 3 0 T H A N I V E R S A R Y A LU M N I R E U N I O NSpace of Resistance: The Return of the Avant-garde to the Streets of IranTalinn Grigor - Brandeis University
Thoughts on SMArchSBill Porter, previous Dean and Head of MIT Dept of ArchitectureArindam Dutta, Associate Professor, MIT and Director of SMArchS Program
