This year marks the 150th anniversary of MIT’s first course in architecture, which was one of six degrees listed in the initial course catalogue and was first taught three years after classes began in 1865. Architect William Robert Ware designed the architecture curriculum, noting, “It is the aim of this School to do what it can, in its day and generation, to insure that the Architecture of the future shall be worthy of the future.” Course IV is now the longest-running professional architecture program in the US and a world leader in the field.









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