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For centuries experts have pondered over one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most intriguing and yet unconsummated projects: the Galata bridge whose double-curvature arch design, ca. 1502-1503, was so futuristic it was rejected as risky. Enter Mohammad Bolhassani, assistant professor and masonry structures specialist at the Spitzer School. While MIT researchers have proven the structural feasibility of the design,

We are pleased to announce our Fall 2021 Sciame Lecture Series, “Architectures of Care,” curated by Associate Professor Cesare Birigani and Adjunct Associate Professor Vyjayanthi Rao. The series explores the notion of care and the ways in which architecture might contribute to repairing built environments and social fabrics. In a world riven by inequality and

Professor Marta Gutman has stepped in as the Interim Dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture. Bradley Horn, according to the plan agreed to when he was appointed almost a year ago, has stepped aside to return to his faculty position in the Spitzer School of Architecture. Professor Gutman, a historian and licensed architect, has