MIT School of Architecture and Planning

http://alberti.mit.edu/ap/ap.html (World Wide Web Directory, ~04/1995)

MIT School of Architecture and Planning

(Last Modified March 15,1995)

School of Architecture and Planning

The School of Architecture and Planning focuses on the study and design of the human environment -- architectural, urban and electronic. Graduates of the school pursue careers in architectural design and teaching; in planning for neighborhoods and cities and remote rural areas; in real estate development for the public and private sectors; in politics as elected officials; in communications as researchers and producers developing the potential of electronic media; and in the arts as filmmakers and graphic designers with the latest computer tools at their command.

The School of Architecture and Planning, under the direction of Dean William J. Mitchell, consists of six academic units--

Department of Architecture
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Media Arts and Sciences Program located in the Media Laboratory
- which focuses on the digital information environment.
Center for Real Estate (CRE)
-which sponsors a full agenda of research on issues related to real estate development.
Center for Advanced Visual Studies
-which concentrates on collaborative efforts between artists, scientists, architects and engineers.
Computer Resource Laboratory (CRL)
-which connects all the departments throughout the School and the Institute enabling exploration of new multimedia approaches for computer-assisted teaching of design and planning.

Historically, the school builds on pioneering traditions: The first university instruction in architecture in the US began at MIT in 1865; The program in city planning was the second in the country when established in 1932; and the youngest of the School's programs, in Media Arts and Sciences, was established in 1987 as an outgrowth of the pioneering research being done at the Media Laboratory, which remains at the cutting edge of the field.

Credits are given to the following persons for contributing to the School of Architecture and Planning Web documents:

Regina Schoonover (1994 - present)
Greg Rossel (1994)
Angela Perkins (January 1995)

Your comments are greatly appreciated. You may e-mail messages to the current webmistress at plan-news@mit.edu

School of Architecture and Planning Home Page Usage Statistics
-Statistics generated by wusage. Copyright 1994 by Cold Spring Harbor Labs.

*MIT Student Information Processing Board

*Official MIT Web Server