Architecture

Building the new New Orleans, block by blockMIT urbanist’s new book shows how active neighborhood communities helped revitalize the city after Hurricane Katrina.

Exploring the future of making thingsIntroducing the Self-Assembly Lab at SA+P

Designing healthy citiesA joint initiative of SA+P's new Center for Advanced Urbanism and the American Institute of Architects

Building a better big boxMIT architect Alexander D’Hooghe looks to remake suburbs and other neighborhoods with ‘more intelligent’ designs.

Introducing the Center for Advanced UrbanismCreating new models for 21st century cities

Creating tomorrow's home: 'Soft' but resilientMIT-led team’s award-winning housing design unveiled as part of 21st-century model for sustainable urban development

SA+P news digest goes mobileSchool of Architecture + Planning unveils new app for smartphones and digital tablets

Visiting artists enrich life at MITVisiting artists share their work in architecture, planning, visual literacy and filmmaking.

MIT’s Great Dome is rebornThe dome’s ingeniously engineered oculus is reopened, letting natural light flood the rotunda of the Barker Library reading room.

SA+P faculty, alumni make their mark in TEDA collection of TEDTalks videos featuring researchers and innovators with ties to MIT's School of Architecture + Planning.

Embracing change and innovation at DUSPA chat with Eran Ben-Joseph, the new head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Tweeting the cityIn 2012, the School of Architecture + Planning conducted a series of real-time interactive forums on urban issues.

The right’s resistance to regulationBook details how conservatives have changed the terms of the environmental debate in recent decades.

Objects by architectsOne of Several Recent Exhibits at SA+P’s Keller Gallery

A flow of creativityMIT’s Gediminas Urbonas emerged from the old Soviet Union to produce new art in Cambridge.

A winning vision for the future of urban mobilityYoon and partner awarded grand prize in international competition.

All that is solid melts into air: Tomás Saraceno visits MITCAST visiting artist creates inflatable and airborne biospheres: speculative models for alternate ways of living.

Profile: Roger Lewis (BArch ’64, MArch ’67)Practitioner, professor, journalist, author and cartoonist

Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not YetNeri Oxman at the Centre Pompidou

New books on the shelf from SA+PRecent publishing news from School of Architecture + Planning faculty and alumni

In profile: Seeing the lightArchitect Christoph Reinhart studies how buildings — and whole communities — can use daylight to become more energy-efficient.

New interactive map assesses solar power potential of CambridgePublic launch for project taking place Oct. 3

Customizing your cityhome in the skyNew tools for urban dwellers

Inspired ideas to improve the worldSchool of Architecture + Planning students win thousands in grants for business startups

Clifford appointed to Belluschi LectureshipYoung practitioner/scholar researches past methods of making.

Said and Done for June/July 2012Digest of MIT humanities, arts and social sciences

Bits of buildings: How is computing changing the architect’s job?In a new book, an MIT researcher looks at the influence of high-tech simulations on the profession of architecture.

A design to save American citiesIn new book, urban studies professor Brent Ryan says shrinking American cities should stop emulating the suburbs and start supporting creative rebuilding ideas.