Articles Collection

The Museum's Architecture and Design Collection is one of the country's important collections for the study of architectural instruction and practice. The collection was developed as a repository for the thesis drawings and course materials from the first American architectural program, MIT's Course Four.
The Architecture & Design Collection has grown into a collection documenting American and European architectural training and graphics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The collection documents the oldest architectural program in the country through more than 15,000 student thesis drawings from 1873 through the 1960s. Program books, dating from 1905 to 1956, record studio competitions, often with photographs of student presentations. The emphasis of the Design Collection is on study drawings not built work, such as travel sketches of MIT students awarded the Rotch traveling fellowship, today awarded by the Boston Society of Architects.
Developed for instruction in architectural design and graphics, the collection includes work of European and American architects of the 1840s through the 1920s, including Samuel Chamberlain, Louis Rosenberg, Bertram Goodhue, and Emmanuel Brune and Piranesi prints brought to MIT in the 1860s.

Collections

The Architects Collaborative

The Campus Collection