Fall 2026 public program

The MIT Department of Architecture invites you to join us for our fall 2026 public lecture program; a continuing conversation on urgent topics that define our moment, centered on our department’s convergence of practice, design, and research. 

On the occasion of moving to our new home in the MET Warehouse and reimagining working with one another, and with our colleagues across MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), we have structured our public events around the theme of “Working Together.” This year, we will explore dialogic, collective, cooperative, and co-adaptive forms of architectural and landscape practices, research, curatorial, and historical work. At each event, we invite in-person visitors and remote audiences to share and question the ways that architecture frames, constructs, and changes the world.  

This series is a collaboration between the faculty, staff, and students of MIT’s Department of Architecture, which includes architects, designers, urbanists, filmmakers, historians, critics, theorists, artists, social entrepreneurs, and experts in computation and building technology. Alongside the academic programs and public events, student- and faculty-run exhibitions, publications, and platforms expand our agenda. 

Our exhibitions this year will take the form of both pop-up presentations of our own current pedagogical projects, and of curated work by our friends and interlocutors. All are welcome to visit the Architecture Gallery on the third floor of the MET Warehouse. 

Events are held in-person on the ground floor of the Sidara Auditorium (W41-1216) and streamed on our YouTube channel. We invite you to explore the full public program below and find more details including links to webcasts on our events calendar. Learn more at architecture.mit.edu.

September 10: The Ahmad Tehrani Symposium—Sara Zewde + Najha Zigbi-Johnson
October 8: TAKK—Mireia Luzárraga (in collaboration with the MIT Morningside Academy for Design)
October 15: Studio Ossidiana—Giovanni Bellotti and Alessandra Covini
October 22: Carrie McKnelly
October 29: Anooradha Iyer Siddiq and Rachel Lee
November 2: META 5—Convocations for Planetary Futures, in honor of Prof. Ute Meta Bauer
November 5: e-flux Architecture—Nick Axel and Nikolaus Hirsch
November 12: Colectivo C733—Gabriella Carrillo and Carlos Facio (in collaboration with the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism)
November 17: The Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design—Jan Knippers and Achim Menges
November 19: Co-Adaptive—Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston
December 3: New South—Meriem Chabani