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At a "pitch and demo" DesignX accelerator event, Department of Urban Studies and Planning student Riddhi Shah, lead for the Kumej project, makes her pitch to the crowd. Kumej is a light, collapsible seat designed to enable underprivileged students in India to carry and create their own comfortable work surface, whether at a construction site where their parents work or in a rural school.

Design innovations for improved life in cities

Venture accelerator DesignX unleashes entrepreneurs’ ideas to transform the built environment.

June 13, 2017

"We can’t only care about global-scale climate change; we also need to consider the local quality of life because these two things are closely related. If you want to know more about China’s future, you need to understand its local life," says Siqi Zheng, faculty director of the Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab.

3Q: Siqi Zheng on air quality and urban development in China

Author of “Blue Skies over Beijing” links Chinese air quality and urban development.

May 19, 2017

Albert Saiz, director of the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on the confluence of urban policy, economic development, and real estate markets.

3 Questions: How urbanization and revolutionary innovation are shaping global real estate

The Center for Real Estate’s Albert Saiz talks about worldwide trends affecting housing, commercial real estate, and investment in the built environment.

May 3, 2017

The fifteen teams that made their pitches included MIT faculty, students, and alumni. Participants came from every major unit of the School of Architecture and Planning, as well as the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Schools of Science and Engineering.

DesignX selects first cohort

Eight student teams join MIT’s newest entrepreneurship accelerator.

December 14, 2016

Zixiao Yin is a 2016-2017 Samuel Tak Lee Graduate Fellow and student in urban studies and planning.

Tackling Chinese urban development

Samuel Tak Lee Graduate Fellow Zixiao Yin plans to serve communities back home in Inner Mongolia.

November 4, 2016

Real estate innovation by the numbers

Real Estate Innovation Lab to promote the future of urban development by showing investors how it can work.

November 3, 2016

The team behind DesignX, a new design entrepreneurship accelerator from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning: (left to right) Gilad Rosenzweig, executive director for DesignX; Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning and faculty director of the program; Andrea Chegut, research scientist in the MIT Center for Real Estate and director of the MIT Real Estate I...

Entrepreneurship by design

New DesignX accelerator speeds innovation at the School of Architecture and Planning.

October 17, 2016

On Monday, Sept. 12, MIT celebrated the reopening of the Samuel Tak Lee Building (Building 9), which underwent extensive renovations this summer to upgrade building systems and to create modern, lively, and functional spaces for the students and faculty who call the building home.

New plan refreshes MIT’s home for planning

Samuel Tak Lee Building filled with light and life after summer renovations.

September 19, 2016

STL Lab and MIT Game Lab project participants work together to develop and test a socially responsible real estate game.

A novel approach to teaching socially responsible real estate: games

MIT’s Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab uses gaming to advance its mission in China.

September 2, 2016

“Beijing Studio” celebrates 30 years

MIT–Tsinghua collaboration grapples with urban issues in China.

July 14, 2016

Xian Village in Guangzhou, China, is a project under redevelopment.

DUSP, CRE, and STL Lab award $1.1 million in second round of faculty research funding

Nine grants awarded to MIT faculty and researchers.

July 11, 2016

Thriving on risk in real estate

Professor David Geltner is developing new real estate indices to quantify uncertainties in commercial property markets.

May 18, 2016

MIT graduate student Fernanda Sánchez Attolini

Fernanda Sánchez Attolini wins inaugural real estate scholarship

Graduate student awarded first Scholarship for Real Estate Excellence from the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors and the MIT Center for Real Estate

December 14, 2015

DUSP, CRE, and STL Lab award $1.5 million in first round of faculty research funding

Thirteen grants awarded to MIT faculty and researchers from four different schools.

September 22, 2015

2015 Samuel Tak Lee Fellows: Qing Wang, Wangke Wu, Wensi Zhai, Jintai Li, Karmen Cheung, David Wang, Stacey Middlebrook, Kevin Murphy, Dandi Li, Yifei Lu, and Waishan Qiu

DUSP, CRE, and Samuel Tak Lee Lab welcome inaugural class of fellows

Graduate students arrive to study socially responsible real estate development and global urbanization.

September 17, 2015

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