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    The Architecture + Urbanism program at MIT is centered on contemporary architectural practice and actively pursues interdisciplinary collaboration. The program believes architectural intelligence should be generated from design itself and addresses issues like climate change, globalization, technology and urbanization. Architectural design studios of increasing complexity form the core curriculum, focusing on site context, use, building methods, and the architect's role. Faculty research a wide range of topics related to the built environment and design process.

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    11/12/2018 Overview | MIT Architecture

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    Overview

    Architecture + Urbanism
    With a group of active practitioners composing the core of the design faculty, Architecture +
    Urbanism at MIT is centered on contemporary practice. We actively pursue interdisciplinary
    collaboration, being keenly aware of the necessity to learn and borrow from, as well as to
    instigate exchange, with other disciplines. Yet we believe the foundational intelligence of
    architecture should be generated above all from the bottom up and within design itself.

    Design today cannot afford not to address contemporary conditions such as climate change,
    globalization, technology and urbanization. As challenging as this may be, we are committed
    to investigating how these issues will inform and inspire design, as well as architectural
    education.

    Architectural Design focuses on a broad range of perspectives linking several common


    concerns: site and context, use and form, building methods and materials, and the role of
    the architect. We see the architect less as the sole creator of an autonomous building than
    as a collaborator in shaping the physical environment.

    Studios of increasing complexity form the core of the Architecture Design curriculum.
    Introductory studios, taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, provide a basic
    foundation and vocabulary for architectural design. For undergraduates, they help students
    decide whether they want to continue in architecture. Intermediate studios provide a range

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    of experience of form-making, offering students the opportunity to learn from individual


    faculty members' particular approaches to exploring design issues. Advanced studios allow
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    graduate students to sharpen their skills and develop their own approaches toward form-
    making. In their theses, students carry a project of their own from concept through theory
    and design to a final product.

    Architectural Design offers a host of opportunities for students to engage and learn from
    faculty beyond the studio. Workshops, lectures, seminars, and research projects are just
    some of the ways that Architectural Design engages the built environment, the forces that
    mold it, and the design process itself. Our faculty undertake a wide variety of projects and
    research areas such as large-scale physical planning, behavioral studies, environmental
    programming, the form and evaluation of cities, computation and design, architectural theory
    and design methodology, decision making procedures in design, housing and settlement
    forms in developing countries, self-help processes, and design in non-Western cultures.

    Students also have the opportunity to working with the Joint Program for City Design and
    Development, as well as the Center for Real Estate. Some students choose to follow a
    sequence leading to the Urban Design Certificate obtained with their degrees; others
    choose to extend their study period to seek dual degrees.

    Architecture at MIT has a strong commitment to the urban contexts and challenges of
    design, from core studios to advanced option studios and design workshops in cities around
    the world. In addition, the Department offers a post-professional masters degree on
    Architecture+Urbanism (see also the SMARCHS Urbanism webpage).
    Architecture+Urbanism at MIT has three related meanings: 1) urban cultural change, 2)
    historical processes of urbanization, and 3) contemporary urban design. Design inquiry links
    them and is the principal means of advanced research in this field at MIT.

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture + Planning Site Credits


    77 Massachusetts Avenue - Cambridge, MA 02139

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