School of Architecture & Planning Campus

The MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) is one of five schools at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1865 by William Robert Ware, offering the first architecture curriculum in the United States and the first such program established within a university. The Department of Architecture, originally modeled after the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, became part of the formally established School of Architecture in 1932. In 1944, the school was renamed the School of Architecture and Planning after the addition of the City Planning program, first offered in 1933. The school includes several notable units: the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), established in 1947; the MIT Media Lab, founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner; the Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), created in 2009; and the Center for Real Estate, established in 1983. The Department of Architecture is divided into five main research areas, including Architectural Design, Building Technology, and History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design, Bachelor of Science, Master of Architecture, and Master of Science in Architecture. Since 2015, the Dean of Architecture and Planning has been Hashim Sarkis.