Seven teachers of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA + P) were honored for their contributions through promotions, from July 1. Three promotions of teachers are in the architectural department; Three are in the department of urban studies and planning; And one is in the program in the arts and the sciences of the media.
“Whether architects, urban planners, computer scientists or nanotechnologists, they represent our school to its best, in its extent of the survey and the mission to improve the relationship between human beings and their environments,” explains the dean of his + P Hashim Sarkis.
Architectural department
Marcelo Coelho was promoted to an associate professor of practice. Coelho is the director of Design Intelligence Labwhich explores the intersection of human intelligence and machine through design, AI and manufacturing. His work goes from light -based installations to physical computers. Recognition of his work includes two prizes Ars Electronica and Fast businessInnovation by design award. Coelho's experimental approach redefines creative processes, transforming the way we imagine and interact with intelligent systems. Coelho teaches courses that bring together industrial design, user experience and artificial intelligence.
Holly Samuelson was promoted to an associate professor without a mandate. Samuelson co-written more than 40 articles evaluated by peers, winning a prize for the best paper in the newspaper Energy and construction. As a recognized expert in architectural technology, it was presented in media such as The Washington Post,, The Boston GlobeBBC, and The Wall Street Journal.
RAFI Segal was promoted to a full professor. A award -winning designer, Segal works through architectural and urban scales, with projects ranging from Villa 003 to the Ordos 100 series to the Kitgum Peace Museum in Uganda, the Ashdod Museum of Art in Israel and the winning design proposal for the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. His current work includes planning a new common district for an Israeli Kibbutz and the organization of the first exhibition on Alfred Neumann's architecture in the 1960s.
Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)
Carlo Ratti has been renewed in his functions as a practice teacher. Ratti is the director of Sensable city laboratory and a founding partner of the International Design Office Carlo Ratti Associati. He co-wrote more than 500 publications and has several patents. His work was exposed worldwide, notably at the Venice Biennale, the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Barcelona Museum Design. Two of his projects, the Digital Water Pavilion and the Wheel Copenhagen, were appointed among Time Magazine“The” best inventions of the year “. He is the conservative of the Venice Biennale in 2025 19th international architecture exhibition.
Albert Saiz was promoted to a full professor. Saiz is director of MIT Urban economy laboratorywhich conducts research on the real estate economy, the urban economy, the housing markets, local public finances, zoning regulations, global real estate and demographic trends affecting urban and real estate development around the world. He also contributes to the wider research community as a guest researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia, researcher at the Institute for Work Analysis, and editor of the Journal of Housing Economics.
Delia Wendel was promoted to an associate professor without a mandate. Wendel's research initiates three main areas: forms of community reparation after conflicts and disasters, African town planning and spatial policy. His interdisciplinary work brings together urban studies, critical peace studies, architectural history, cultural geography and anthropology. At MIT DUSP, she directs the planning of the collective collective Peace Critical and supervises the Mellon Foundation and the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology Research and Exhibition Project, Memory Atlas for Repair. She is also editor -in -chief of Projections, The annual newspaper evaluated by the peers of the ministry on critical issues in urban studies and planning.
Media Arts and Sciences Program
Deblina Sarkar was promoted to an associate professor without a mandate. As director of Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek Lab At MIT Media Lab, it merges nanoelectronics, physics and biology to create revolutionary technologies, ultra-thin quantum transistors at the first antenna that works within living cells. His interdisciplinary work has won its main honors, including the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award and the IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology.
