MIT School of Architecture and Planning
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1865 (first courses taught) 1932 (MITSAP established) |
| Dean | Hashim Sarkis |
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Academic staff
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150 |
| Students | 408 150 (Architecture) 56 (Urban Planning) 189 (Media Lab) 9 (Arts, Culture and Technology) |
| Location | Infinite Corridor, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | MIT |
| Website | sap.mit.edu |
The MIT School of Architecture and Planning is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1865 by William Robert Ware, the School offered the first formal architectural curriculum in the United States, and the first architecture program in the world, operating within the establishment of a University. The school is considered a global academic leader in the design fields.
The current Dean of Architecture and Planning is Hashim Sarkis.
In the 20th century, the School came to be known as a leader in introducing modernism to America. 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 commissioned a mix of modernist and post-modernist buildings.
Architecture was first taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1868. Architecture was the 4th course of study in the history of the university. In 1932, when the president of MIT, Karl T. Compton, reorganized the Institute's academic structure, the School of Architecture was established, incorporating the Department of Architecture. The head of the Department of Architecture, William Emerson, became the first dean of the School of Architecture.
Urban Studies and Planning was originally a department of the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The City Planning course was first offered in September 1933.
In 1944 the school was renamed the School of Architecture and Planning. In 1947, the Department of City and Regional Planning was established, which was renamed the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) in 1969.
The idea for the Media Lab came into being in 1980 by Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President and Science Advisor to President John F. Kennedy, Jerome Wiesner. The Lab grew out of the work of MIT's Architecture Machine Group, and remains within MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.
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