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Read more at: The Department congratulates 3rd year students Georgia Gollogly and Gianluca Vartan on being selected today to compete in the respective women's and men's ightweight Boat Race crews 2024

The Department congratulates 3rd year students Georgia Gollogly and Gianluca Vartan on being selected today to compete in the respective women's and men's ightweight Boat Race crews 2024

15 March 2024

The lightweight Boat Race is held the day before the openweight boat races on the same course from Putney to Mortlake. The lightweight crew have trained alongside the openweights since August 2023. Georgia Gollogly will be joined in the women's lightweight crew by Charlotte Macey from the Department of History of Art. For...


Read more at: The Department congratulates PhD student Sean Hayes on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2024

The Department congratulates PhD student Sean Hayes on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2024

14 March 2024

Sean Hayes is in the reserve 'Goldie' crew and is joined in the squad by Kenneth Coplan, an MPhil student from the Department of History of Art. The 169th Men's Race will take place on Saturday 30th March from 15:46 between Putney and Mortlake. For more information visit: https://www.theboatrace.org/squads/cambridge-mens-...


Read more at: The new River Wing at Clare College designed by Witherford Watson Mann, a practice led by two of our alumni, is offically opened

The new River Wing at Clare College designed by Witherford Watson Mann, a practice led by two of our alumni, is offically opened

13 March 2024

Witherford Watson Mann Architects has completed a transformative addition to one of Cambridge University’s oldest colleges: the River Wing is the first significant new construction at Grade I-listed Clare College Old Court since the 1780s. The oak-framed structure was manufactured offsite and carefully assembled in the...


Read more at: Call for Submissions: Scroope 33: Disenclosure

Call for Submissions: Scroope 33: Disenclosure

11 March 2024

Architecture has never been a neutral discipline. Inextricable from histories of inequality that continue to perpetuate injustice, architecture has long sustained the brutal enclosure of life. Today, its complicity is becoming better understood through critical explorations of spatial violence, urban activism, sites of...


Read more at: Aiumnus Anna Joynt of Allies and Morrison has been shortlisted for this year’s East of England RIBA Awards for the John Bradfield Room at Darwin College

Aiumnus Anna Joynt of Allies and Morrison has been shortlisted for this year’s East of England RIBA Awards for the John Bradfield Room at Darwin College

7 March 2024

The John Bradfield Room, which opened in 2019, is shortlisted along with 17 other projects in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, including buildings at Homerton, King’s, Lucy Cavendish, Trinity Hall and St Catharine’s colleges. Find out more here: https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/john-bradfield-...


Read more at: The Department congratulates PhD student Joshua Dimasaka on receiving the Student Presentation Award at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2023 as well as the Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant

The Department congratulates PhD student Joshua Dimasaka on receiving the Student Presentation Award at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2023 as well as the Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant

6 March 2024

Joshua Dimasaka (PhD student) has been selected to receive the “Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA)” for delivering one of the most exceptional presentations during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2023 in San Francisco, California, United States, last December 13, 2023. In addition to the...


Read more at: Professor Flora Samuel will be discussing the future of housing at the 'Futurebuild' and 'Architecture on Stage: The Future of Housing Standards' events this month

Professor Flora Samuel will be discussing the future of housing at the 'Futurebuild' and 'Architecture on Stage: The Future of Housing Standards' events this month

4 March 2024

Professor Samuel will be talking at 'Futurebuild' from 4:15pm on 7 March and then from 2:00pm on 19 March at the 'Architecture on Stage' event at the Barbican. For more information visit: Futurebuild Conference Programme Architecture on Stage: The Future of Housing Standards | Architecture Foundation


Read more at: Our faculty member, Dr Ronita Bardhan, has been awarded a UK Space Agency grant (~£6 million) to measure heat loss from buildings using space telescopes

Our faculty member, Dr Ronita Bardhan, has been awarded a UK Space Agency grant (~£6 million) to measure heat loss from buildings using space telescopes

28 February 2024

Our faculty member, Dr. Ronita Bardhan, was awarded £6 million in funding from the UK Space Agency's National Space Innovation Programme to measure heat loss from buildings in space, along with colleagues from the Institute for Astronomy, Cambridge Zero and Plant Sciences, and various space technology industry partners...


Read more at: Entering Practice: An event by ArcSoc and the CAA (Cambridge Association of Architects) will take place on Wednesday 28 February

Entering Practice: An event by ArcSoc and the CAA (Cambridge Association of Architects) will take place on Wednesday 28 February

15 February 2024

The event starts at 4pm in the Department of Architecture and the speakers will be as follows: CAA Welcome Speech by Alice Hamlin & Susie Lober David Adams from Graham Handley Architects Eric Martin (or a colleague) from Allies & Morrison JJ Walters from LDA Design Alice Hamlin from Mole Architects February...


Read more at: Assistant Professor Dr. Michal Gath-Morad and Colleagues from University of Cambridge, UCL, and ETH Zürich Present New Findings in Nature Scientific Reports: Exploring the Role of Strategic Visibility on Wayfinding in Complex Multilevel Buildings

Assistant Professor Dr. Michal Gath-Morad and Colleagues from University of Cambridge, UCL, and ETH Zürich Present New Findings in Nature Scientific Reports: Exploring the Role of Strategic Visibility on Wayfinding in Complex Multilevel Buildings

15 February 2024

mgm_1.jpeg In this paper, we explore the mutual effect of prior background expectations and visibility afforded by the 3D configuration of the physical environment on wayfinding efficiency and strategy in multilevel buildings. We perform new analyses on data from 149 participants who performed six unaided and directed...