MIT School of Architecture and Planning

See also: Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
TypePrivate
Established1868 (first courses taught)
1932 (MITSAP established)
DeanHashim Sarkis
Academic staff
150
Students408
150 (Architecture)
56 (Urban Planning)
189 (Media Lab)
9 (Art, Culture and Technology)
Location
Cambridge
,
Massachusetts
,
United States
CampusUrban
AffiliationsMIT
Websitesap.mit.edu

The MIT School of Architecture and Planning (MIT SAP, stylized as SA+P) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1865 by William Robert Ware, the school offered the first architecture curriculum in the United States and was the first architecture program established within a university.[1] MIT's Department of Architecture has consistently ranked among the top architecture/built environment schools in the world.[2][3][4]

In the 20th century, the school came to be known by introducing modernism to America.[5] MIT has a history of commissioning progressive buildings, many of which were designed by faculty or former students associated with the school. In recent years, the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been expanded with a mix of modernist and post-modernist buildings.[6][7]

Since 2015, the Dean of Architecture and Planning is Hashim Sarkis.[8][9]

  1. ^ "School of Architecture and Planning | MIT History". libraries.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  2. ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject: Architecture & Built Environment 2023". QSChina. Quacquarelli Symonds. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  3. ^ Gilmore, David (19 Oct 2019). "America's Top Architecture Schools 2020". Architectural Record. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  4. ^ "QS ranks MIT the world's No. 1 university for 2022-23". MIT News. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  5. ^ Dutta, Arindam; Tuerk, Stephanie; Kubo, Michael; Chuong, Jennifer Yeesue; Chernyakova, Irina (September 27, 2013). A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the Techno-Social Moment. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262019859.
  6. ^ Dillon, David (2004-02-22). "Starchitecture on Campus". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
  7. ^ Flint, Anthony (October 13, 2002). "At MIT, Going Boldly Where No Architect Has Gone Before". Boston Globe.
  8. ^ "School of Architecture and Planning: About Us". MIT. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  9. ^ Dizikes, Peter (22 Oct 2014). "Hashim Sarkis named dean of the School of Architecture and Planning". MIT News. Retrieved 8 Feb 2024.