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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

3 Questions: Beyond data-driven aesthetics

In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgment and explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.

Beyond Monoliths and Microservices: Years of Architectural Battle Scars

We are going to discusses the complexities of software architecture, debunking the binary view of monoliths versus microservices. It emphasizes that effective architecture involves understanding various patterns, each with its own trade-offs and costs….

Counter intelligence

Architecture students bring new forms of human-machine interaction into the kitchen.

Using design to interpret the past and envision the future

MIT graduate student C Jacob Payne reimagines historic architecture and invents new possibilities at the intersection of AI and design.

“Robot, make me a chair”

An AI-driven system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words.

MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics

The speech-to-reality system combines 3D generative AI and robotic assembly to create objects on demand.

School of Architecture and Planning welcomes new faculty for 2025

Four new professors join the Department of Architecture and MIT Media Lab.

School of Architecture and Planning recognizes faculty with academic promotions in 2025

The faculty members’ work comprises multifaceted research and scholarship across a wide range of disciplines.