MIT School of Architecture and Planning

SCHOOL Overview At the MIT School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P), we believe that humanity’s toughest problems occupy the same ground as their solutions: the space between people and their environment. This is our territory. From the day MIT opened its doors and introduced Course 4 as the nation’s first academic program in architecture, our faculty, students, and alumni have explored the human landscape to discover—and deliver—better futures. As one of MIT's five schools, SA+P is home to: The Department of Architecture The Department of Urban Studies + Planning (DUSP) The MIT Media Lab The MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE) The Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) The Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) This potent mix of disciplines and departments fuels innovation and energizes MIT’s drive for meaningful progress. Whether our community is designing systems or cities, objects or structures, policies or technologies, we are committed to working every day, at MIT and around the globe, in service to a better world. A Brief History SA+P is home to pioneering departments, labs, and centers. True to MIT's culture of pushing the boundaries of knowledge and imagination, most of these units are first of their kind or built to take advantage of MIT's distinctive strengths: 1868: MIT opens its doors with the first Department of Architecture in the U.S; 1933: MIT establishes the oldest continuous Department of Urban Studies and Planning; 1968: MIT forms the world-renowned Center for Advanced Visual Studies, progenitor to today's Program in Art, Culture, and Technology 1980: MIT launches the first university Media Lab, emerging from within the Department of Architecture; 1984: MIT creates the first academic Center for Real Estate to offer a professional degree; 2013: SA+P creates the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism to imagine the future of cities. Degrees Faculty Students Financial Aid Research Funding A Selection of Research Labs and Centers Notable SA+P Alumni