TRACES, a project by Balsa Crosetto Piazzi (Rocio Crosetto Brizio, Belluschi Fellow) and Giorgis Ortiz (Adriana Giorgis, MArch 2024 and Evan Ortiz, MArch 2025) is a new collective space in Jackson Park, constructed from 10,000 dry-stacked bricks. Now on view at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry as a part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. 

Thresholds 53 has been recognized with the 2025 Douglas Haskell Award, awarded this year to four student journals on architecture. Editors of the T53: Idle issue are Joshua Tan and Mingjia Chen. Read the announcement here.

Ongoing research by three architecture faculty aims to yield structures that protect communities from the devastation of volcanic eruptions. Read more. Photo: Marino Thorlacius

John E. Fernández, Professor, Department of Architecture is a recipient of the 2025 Gordon Y. Billard Award. Learn more about the 2025 MIT Excellence Awards. 

Cheung Qin MArch ’26, Chenyue “xdd” Dai MArch ’26, and Vinzenz Aubry SMACT ’25 (L to R) are the recipients of the 2025 Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts. Learn more.

MIT Architecture Presents Climate Work at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Learn more.

Pietro Belluschi Fellow Rocio Crosetto Brizzio is among the winners of Plot, the 44th cycle of the biennial Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Read more.

MIT Architecture among winners and finalists of 2025 ULI Hines Student Competition. Student Competition Winner: "Lakeshore". Thomas King, Master of Architecture and Master of City Planning (2nd from left) and Nathaniel Chavez-Baumberg, Master of Architecture (2nd from right) of the "Lakeshore" team. Read more

Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and Anne Whiston Spirn, Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more.

Announcing the S. James Goldstein ’46, SM ’48, B. Arch. ’49 and Family Fund, a gift that will provide crucial support for climate research and teaching in the Department of Architecture at MIT. Read more.

Created by artist and Senior Researcher at MIT Marisa Morán Jahn in collaboration with Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism Rafi Segal, HOOPcycle is a mobile art installation that recenters basketball’s history and brings its Mesoamerican roots to the forefront. Learn more. 

Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices. Read more. Photo: Jodi Hilton

MIT Architecture welcomes Rocio Crosetto Brizzio as the Pietro Belluschi Fellow. Named in honor of Dean Belluschi, this fellowship supports early-career architects and designers who are advancing emerging research agendas. Read more.

MIT faculty with Tuskegee University students and faculty visiting MIT in January 2022. Left to right: Larry Sass, Nicholas de Monchaux, Dwight Sankey, Victoria Sanders, Jordan Houser, Adeleke Ambali, Kwesi Daniels, Kiana Wilcher, Chanse Huff, Journi Goodman, and Mendel Yehudah. Photo: Svafa Grönfeldt/School of Architecture and Planning. Read more.

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