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MIT Architecture @MITarchitecture

The MIT Department of Architecture is a department in the School of Architecture Planning, @mitsap. Related: @akpiamit, @actmit, @mitdusp, @medialab

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7 Mar 2025
Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating New study from LIDS Audun Botterud, @saurabhamin, Rahman Khorramfar, and collaborators identifies steps that can lower not only emissions, but also costs, across electric power and natural gas industries. bit.ly/4hdP2Bt
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5 Mar 2025
Congratulations to Olivia Wynne Houck (@MITarchitecture) and Natasha Ansari (@MITdusp) for being awarded the 2024 Jeanne Guillemin Prize! Learn more: cis.mit.edu/news-media/news/…. Apply for 2025 CIS PhD Grants by 3/14: cis.mit.edu/fellowships-gran… @MIT_SHASS
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Winter Series: IAP Student Trips 2025 Brick x Brick: Drawing A Particular Survey 🧱📐 Carrie Norman & Adriana Giorgis IAP Series 2/3 #BrickByBrick #Tuskegee #RobertRTaylor
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campus. The course explores the architectural survey as a tool for reflecting on material practices through the lenses of race, place, and preservation.
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Images: 1. Tuskegee University Archives 2-3. Ragland Clay Brick Plant 4-6. Students Surveying Wilcox 7. Ty Skeiky Field Sketches 8. A Lecture by Dr. Kwesi Daniels 9. Lifting the Veil, Booker T Washington Image Credit: Jabari Canada
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Winter Series: IAP Student Trips 2025 'ECOMPOSITES' PROTOTYPING Antón García-Abril The IAP workshop focused on developing a prototype at scale with an architectonic material “ecomposite - (ecological composites)” to push
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the capabilities of different materials and understand their combined behavior to produce new meanings. The students engaged in the creation of fluid forms in physical space with the use of recycled materials sourced from the vicinity of the testing grounds at a lab in Madrid
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to foster cohesive creations. Following #datatoprototype methodologies, the students conducted collaborative analysis and discussions, while exploring the union of these various materials Images: Antón García-Abril Series: 1/3 #testing #ground #prototypes #composites
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Mexico Studio/Practicum IAP Trip DUSP (MCP) MIT Architecture (SMArchS Urbanism) Professors: eran ben joseph, Mary Anne Ocampo, Alberto Meouchi; Teacher Assistant: Daniela Martínez Chapa
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This semester-long collaboration between MIT and UNAM focuses on Bordo Poniente, Latin America’s largest urban waste landfill, as the site for innovative site planning, urban design, energy transition, and/or landscape restoration.
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Students: Anna Morgan, Anna Savino, Virginia Sun, Tatiana Jiménez, Wing Man Chan, Eunice Ngai, Sam Owen, Oz Fishman, Takumi Kitamura, Thomas Hyo-min King, S M Kaikobad, Ami Kurosaki, Daniela Martinez Chapa #studiotrip #archiurbanism #mexico #trashtotreasure
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"Soft Systems of Support" 4.021 How to Design, Fall 2024 Taught by Associate Professor Skylar Tibbits & Teaching Fellow Adriana Giorgis #howtodesign #inflatables #course #frame #prop
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our environments and daily lives, working in teams of three to design using a specific mode of fabrication: inflatables. The exercise challenged students to bring attention to everyday support structures that are typically engineered to be hidden.
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By working with inflatables, students confronted the limitations and possibilities of pneuma—or breath—infusing each project with a sense of life, temporality. Images: (1-3) S Seo, A Suk, S Kang (4-6) R Adkins, N Bunyatov, R Kim (7-9) K Jiang, K Foreman, L Sun, C Dai
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S M Kaikobad (SMArchS '26) Stilt - (inter) cultural dialogue between inclusion and identity 4.154 Architecture Design Option Studio The Amazonia Studio, 2024 Taught by: Angelo Bucci, TA: Nasibe Nur Dundar Arifoglu #studentwork #amazonia #brazil #manaus
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The proposals aim to utilize underutilized spaces to create inclusive community venues for artists across diverse age groups, socioeconomic backgrounds, and disciplines while reflecting the tropical architectural identity of the Amazon region. Public plazas inspired by the
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floating houses of Manaus are envisioned in the spaces between solid architectural elements, fostering engagement and accessibility. This strategy not only enhances public interaction but also contributes to revenue regeneration for long-standing residents.
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