MIT School of Architecture and Planning

The MIT School of Architecture and Planning (MIT SAP, stylized as SA+P) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1865 by William Robert Ware, the school offered the first architecture curriculum in the United States and was the first architecture program established within a university. MIT's Department of Architecture has consistently ranked among the top architecture/built environment schools in the world.

See also: Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
TypePrivate
Established1865 (first courses taught)
1932 (MITSAP established)
DeanHashim Sarkis
Academic staff
150
Students408
150 (Architecture)
56 (Urban Planning)
189 (Media Lab)
9 (Art, Culture and Technology)
Location
Cambridge
,
Massachusetts
,
United States
CampusUrban
AffiliationsMIT
Websitesap.mit.edu

In the 20th century, the school came to be known by 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 been expanded with a mix of modernist and post-modernist buildings.

Since 2015, the Dean of Architecture and Planning is Hashim Sarkis.


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