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Dr Carolina Vasilikou is co-organising, in collaboration with the University of Plymouth, an active workshop entitled On the Sea Edge: Creative Approaches to Marine and Coastal Futures, for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2025

29 August 2025

How can we think differently and creatively about the stories and encounters with marine spaces as places, landscapes and environments? Through the many theoretical and critical approaches to this topic, we seek to explore the potential creative and experimental methodologies. In this workshop we use the term ‘sea edge’ to...

Assistant Professor’s Film Selected for Prestigious Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival

27 August 2025

We are proud to announce that Possible Landscapes , a film co-produced by Assistant Professor Dr Tao DuFour, has been officially selected for screening at the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival this September. Chosen from an impressive pool of 2,278 submissions, Possible Landscapes explores themes of environment...

Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture, 2025

26 August 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 cohort of Sutton Trust Summer School students! This year’s summer school took eighteen students to the Paradise Nature Reserve in Cambridge to design a new bridge. Proposals ranged from high-tech modular schemes to romantically crafted designs, each presenting a convincing structural rationale...

The department congratulates Tong Chen for publishing her MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS) research in Machine Learning: Earth journal by IOP Press

30 July 2025

Tong Chen is supervised by Dr Ramit Debnath (Assistant Professor and MAUS Director), in this research they asked the hard question: Is AI ready to design low-carbon cities? Read more here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/3049-4753/adde60

Former Department Lecturer Lorna McNeur's Architectural Model Acquired by MoMA

28 July 2025

We are delighted to share that a pedagogical model by former lecturer and Emeritus Fellow, Lorna McNeur,has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for its permanent collection. The model, created in 1976 during Lorna’s first year of architectural study at The Cooper Union, is her interpretation of the...

Ranked 2nd in the Times Higher Education Supplement World Rankings for Architecture 2025

Current job vacancies

The Department of Architecture invites applications for a full-time Teaching Associate working within the Department of Architecture...

The Department of Architecture invites applications for three Design Teaching Fellows. These posts are fractional, 0.253FTE, working 9....