Bauhaus exhibit showcases influential art movement as it celebrates centennial

Walter Gropius, who would become a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, founded the Bauhaus movement in Germany and ensured that much of its output would have a final home at the University. An exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums features that material.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Feb. 7, 2019 ~14 min

Customizing computer-aided design

System breaks down complex designs into easily modifiable shapes for custom manufacturing and 3-D printing.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 2, 2019 ~8 min


To guide cancer therapy, device quickly tests drugs on tumor tissue

Inexpensive 3-D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 12, 2018 ~9 min

Accelerating 3-D printing

Researchers have designed a novel printhead that works with unprecedented speed and pioneered ways to melt and extrude renewable materials.

Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative • mit
Nov. 29, 2018 ~16 min

‘Urban Intermedia’ is a tale of four cities

At the Graduate School of Design, the exhibit “Urban Intermedia” stands as “an experiment and the beginning of an ongoing discussion on new kinds of practices around the study of cities,” said co-curator Eve Blau.

Travis Dagenais • harvard
Sept. 21, 2018 ~9 min

Dennis Frenchman named head of the MIT Center for Real Estate | MIT News

Architect and urban designer brings to the role decades of global expertise on the transformation of cities

School of Architecture and Planning • mit
July 2, 2018 ~3 min

China Venture Workshop announces first cohort | MIT News

Ten teams will collaborate with local partners, pilot solutions to urban challenges.

Louis Goldsmith | School of Architecture and Planning • mit
May 31, 2018 ~9 min

Spirn, Oxman win Cooper Hewitt design awards | MIT News

School of Architecture and Planning professors receive national recognition for excellence, innovation, and impact through design.

School of Architecture and Planning • mit
May 30, 2018 ~4 min


J-WAFS awards over $1.3 million in fourth round of seed grant funding | MIT News

Eleven principal investigators from six MIT departments will receive grants totaling over $1.3 million, overhead free, for research on food and water challenges.

Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab • mit
May 25, 2018 ~12 min

MIT alumni curate pavilions at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale | MIT News

Exhibitions tackle global questions with research-based approaches.

Ken Shulman | School of Architecture and Planning • mit
May 24, 2018 ~6 min

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