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The School of Architecture + Planning is one of five schools at the Massachusetts Institute of Techn

The School of Architecture + Planning is one of five schools at MIT. The school comprises five main divisions:

The Department of Architecture
The Department of Urban Studies + Planning
The Media Lab
The Center for Real Estate
The Program in Art, Culture and Technology

The school is also host to the Levanthal Center for Advanced Urbanism and the Center for Bits and Atoms.

10/20/2026

📆 Tomorrow — Wednesday October 21, 4–6pm

Join us for an open house at the Maihaugen Gallery to explore Howe, Manning & Almy: Boston’s First All-Woman Firm and the Changing Face of Architecture.

Founded in 1900 by Lois Lilley Howe, one of the first women to study architecture at MIT, the firm helped shape the architectural landscape of Boston and Cambridge. Howe, along with architects Eleanor Manning and Mary Almy, completed more than 900 commissions throughout the course of the firm’s history.

The exhibit looks at the role MIT’s architecture program played in supporting women in the field since the 1890s, as well as the firm’s influence on the built environment of Cambridge. It also explores Howe, Manning & Almy’s ecofriendly approaches to renovation, highlighting another dimension of the firm’s work and legacy.

Visit the gallery to learn more about the architects’ contributions and the changing role of women in the field.

📍 Maihaugen Gallery, Building 14, Room 14N-130

📷 Archival photographs, architectural drawings, and artwork courtesy of the MIT Museum and MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections, MIT Libraries.

🔗 Register for the open house: https://calendar.mit.edu/event/open-house-howe-manning-almy

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10/18/2026

How can architecture reshape the way we live together?

MIT Professor of Architecture and Urbanism Rafi Segal presents Architecture Dialogues, an exhibition opening at the Cabinet of Architecture in Prague that explores new approaches to private and collective space.

Through sketches, drawings, models, photographs, and video projections, the exhibition explores how relationships between buildings and cities, objects and landscapes, and users and designers shape architectural design.

Two featured projects offer new perspectives on shared living. Carehaus reimagines spaces for care through a model that brings together families, caregivers, older adults, and people with disabilities, combining independent living units with shared spaces and intergenerational activities. The Korthi Houses on the Greek island of Andros create a shared place for families and friends, with architecture shaped by the site's historic stone terraces and surrounding landscape.

The exhibition is the inaugural presentation at the Cabinet of Architecture’s new gallery in Prague and runs through February 10, 2027.

📍 Cabinet of Architecture, Prague 2 – Vyšehrad
📅 October 8, 2026 – February 10, 2027
📷 Images of work by Rafi Segal, featured in Architecture Dialogues at Kabinet Architektury.

🔗 Explore the exhibition: https://kabinetarchitektury.cz/rafi-segal-architektonicke-dialogy-architectural-dialogues-kabinet-architektury-praha-2-vysehrad/

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10/16/2026

Tod Machover’s already and not yet comes to Boston Symphony Hall October 22–24, bringing AI, music, and a vision for the future of democracy to the stage.

Machover, composer, inventor, and faculty director of the MIT Media Lab, developed the new work as a commission for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The piece incorporates a live AI system that collaborates with each BSO musician while creating unexpected connections and blends across the orchestra.

The composer describes the work as a “possible, positive vision” for the future of democracy, reflecting his broader exploration of technology’s place in the world through music.

Led by conductor Kent Nagano, a longtime champion of Machover’s work, the program also features Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture and Symphony No. 5, Reformation, along with the U.S. premiere of Alex Nante’s Ein feste Burg.

🔗 Learn more about the program and upcoming performances: https://www.bso.org/events/oct-22-24-machover-mendelssohn?performance=2026-10-22-19%3A30

10/15/2026

How is AI changing the way we understand and interact with the world?

MIT Media Lab Professor Fadel Adib served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s inaugural Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders, held October 13–15 in Dubai.

Bringing together more than 500 leaders and experts, the meeting examined the implications of emerging technologies, economic uncertainty, and scientific advances for the coming decades.

Adib joined discussions on AI’s growing influence on human capabilities and presented Sensing the Invisible, a session exploring how emerging sensing technologies can reveal signals beyond human perception, with potential applications in health, climate, and robotics.

“What defines this moment is uncertainty,” Adib said. “It makes it both difficult to predict, but also very exciting from a technology perspective.”

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10/11/2026

What if wood waste could become the foundation for new forms of construction?

Developed at the MIT–LUMA Lab, WoodSpray, led by Marcelo Coelho, Mateo Fernandez, and Skylar Tibbits, combines sawdust and other wood byproducts with bio-based binders such as lignin and nanocellulose to create a sprayable, carbon-storing material for architectural applications.

The material is designed as an alternative to cement and petrochemical composites. It cures at room temperature, is fully biodegradable, and can be tuned through its composition to be dense and structural, porous and acoustic, or weather-resistant for outdoor use.

An AI formulation engine trained on more than 50 documented recipes can propose new material variants for robotic spray fabrication, allowing formulations to be customized for different application requirements. Prototypes range from small mycelial and moss-inoculated surfaces to a multi-meter architectural pavilion sprayed outdoors on the MIT campus.

The research also explores whether construction materials can host living systems that continue to develop after installation, blurring the line between fabricated structure and biological substrate.

Ongoing work with Atelier LUMA in Arles extends WoodSpray beyond wood waste to agricultural byproducts, while researchers continue investigating acoustic performance, curvature, surface finish, and how spray deposition parameters affect long-term material behavior.

🔗 Learn more about WoodSpray and the research at the link in bio.
📷 Imagery courtesy of Marcelo Coelho and the researchers.

10/09/2026

Final days! The Equator Has Moved is nearing the end of its run at Dia Beacon, remaining on view through October 12.

As ACT Professor Renée Green’s exhibition The Equator Has Moved enters its final week, Green brings together works spanning more than three decades alongside new commissions created for Dia Beacon.

Rather than a conventional retrospective, The Equator Has Moved brings together works spanning more than three decades with new commissions created for Dia Beacon. Green describes the exhibition as a “thoughtful combination of works from different time periods,” allowing earlier and newer works to encounter one another under changed circumstances.

Across painting, film, sound, text, and architectural installations, Green explores questions around classification, nature, Earth, geology, geography, time, and perception. The works create an ongoing conversation between different moments in her artistic practice and the spaces they now occupy.

That conversation extends to Dia’s collection. Space Poem #14 (Long Poem in Four Parts), created for Dia, is now part of the institution’s permanent collection alongside four of Green’s works from 1990.

The Equator Has Moved remains on view at Dia Beacon through October 12.

🔗 Read the full story: https://act.mit.edu/2026/09/renee-green-conversations-across-time-at-dia-beacon/

📷 Installation views and photography courtesy of Dia Beacon / Bill Jacobson Studio, New York

10/04/2026

📙 The tech worker movement emerged as employees pushed back against an industry they believed was abandoning its progressive values.

Against Tech Oligarchy examines the rise of this movement following Donald Trump’s 2016 election, when tens of thousands of tech workers organized against their employers over issues including military contracts, sexism, and unionization. Among the book’s authors is JS Tan, a PhD candidate in the International Development Group at MIT DUSP within the MIT School of Architecture + Planning.

As the movement grew, so did the backlash from tech executives. The book traces how employers responded by firing organizers, embracing Trumpism, and challenging the “woke” ideology they blamed for growing worker dissent, amid layoffs, grind culture, and changing workplace conditions.

Against Tech Oligarchy provides an account of the tech worker movement and the labor politics shaping Silicon Valley today.

🔗 Order Against Tech Oligarchy: https://againsttecholigarchy.com

09/30/2026

The future of design and discovery comes to the MET this Saturday, October 3.

MIT Future Fest is a five-day festival of science, technology, and human understanding, opening labs, workshops, and theaters across campus for exhibitions, tours, performances, and unexpected connections.

On Saturday, explore the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, the new home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. SA+P will welcome visitors for guided tours, demonstrations, and a reception celebrating the school’s new home and community.

The festival brings together creative leaders working across fields including quantum, AI, climate, health, and life sciences, inviting researchers and curious first-timers to engage with what comes next.

📅 Join us at the MET this Saturday, October 3, for Future Fest.

Presented by MIT SA+P, the Morningside Academy for Design, and the MIT Museum.

🔗 Explore Future Fest and plan your visit: https://mitfuturefest.org/program

09/28/2026

Signals From the Noise, a multimedia installation by artist and engineer Karyn Nakamura '23, transforms market data into a sweeping display of light, color, and motion. Commissioned by T. Rowe Price, the installation brings together Nakamura’s technical and artistic practices to explore how complex information can be processed into something meaningful.

Nakamura, who earned a degree in design from the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, drew inspiration from both financial data and the natural world, particularly the structural color found in insects and plants. In the installation, color becomes an additional signal, enhancing patterns and structures drawn from investment data.

The work also explores parallels between artistic creation and active investment management. T. Rowe Price portfolio managers Jodi Love and Dominic Rizzo describe their work as a process of filtering information, applying individual frameworks, and finding structure within an ever-changing stream of data.

The center of the installation is a circular mesh LED structure with no beginning or end. For Nakamura, its continuous movement allows viewers to walk around the piece and experience it as a living sculpture — one that lets the surrounding architecture become part of the work.

🔗 Read more about Signals From the Noise: https://www.wired.com/sponsored/story/signals-from-the-noise/

📷 Photography courtesy of Han Alexander.

09/27/2026

Exciting news for MIT DUSP: a team from the MIT Transit Lab has been selected for the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation.

Led by DUSP’s Department Head Jinhua Zhao and MIT Transit and Urban Mobility Lab's Associate Director Awad Abdelhalim, the team will receive $2.1 million to develop the Public Transit Intelligence Hub, using generative AI to bring together real-time transit feeds and operational data to improve service delivery and rider communications.

The project will be developed in collaboration with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and is one of 15 initiatives selected globally for the $30 million Google.org challenge.

Congratulations to the team!

🔗 Learn more: https://www.google.org/impact-challenges/ai-government-innovation/

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