Topics: School of Architecture + Planning

Alpha Arsano SM ’17. Photo: Erin Eve
Spring 2021

Keeping It Cool

Doctoral student helps architects design buildings to suit the climate and save energy

Ous Abou Ras. Photo: Olivier Faber
Fall 2020

Designing the Future

At MIT, a young architect finds the perfect platform for collaborative learning

Photo: M. Scott Brauer
Summer 2019

Labor Intensive

Jason Jackson connects urban planning, future of work

Caitlin Mueller uses robotic 3-D printing to test architectural designs for non-standard elements, such as these culled tree limbs used to build a trellis. Photo: Alan Silfen
Summer 2019

Building Bridges

Caitlin Mueller uses digital tools to link architecture, engineering

García-Abril and his partner, Débora Mesa (pictured far left), live with their children in Brookline, Massachusetts, in a prefabricated home of their own design. Photo: Artemio Fochs Navarro
Winter 2019

Stones and Beams

Ensamble Studio’s Antón García-Abril challenges basic notions about how (and where) buildings can be made