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Cambridge tops the Guardian university subject rankings for Architecture

9 June 2014

Click here for the full list. Click here for an article in the Architects' Journal entitled " Cambridge knocks Bartlett from top spot in architecture schools ranking".

Vertical Urban Industry: MAUD student Stuart Beattie is commended in Skyscraper Competition

27 March 2014

Stuart's entry from the 4th year vertical factory project was recognised out of 525 submissions from 43 countries. In the past few decades the world economy has seen a global shift of industry and manufacturing eastwards to the emerging markets of China and India purely for economic efficiency and not innovation. The rate...

Second Year Studio 3 visit the Laban in South London

28 November 2013

The purpose of the trip was to gain an invaluable insight into the world of dance education, training and performance. Their brief (part of a year-wide theme of ‘Representation’) is for a Dance Centre to be located on a choice of sites near Kingsland Road in Dalston. The students will design spaces for practice and...

Hays Recruitment 2013 Award: Dan Ladyman

28 November 2013

Dan Ladyman, the Department’s top performing 2013 MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B/ARB/RIBA Part 2) student was delighted to be awarded the Hays Recruitment 2013 Award. Dan’s project looks at the population increase of Beijing (half a million residents per year) and how the political, social...

Good Tidings for Coastal Communities: a research feature on the work of PhD student Ed Barsley

24 October 2013

Flooding from rising sea levels and extreme weather events is a major global issue, and the UK is no exception. According to the Government’s 2012 Climate Change Impact Risk Assessment, flooding is the greatest threat facing the UK today. An innovative design concept by Ed Barsley aims to contend with rising seawater by...

Cambridge Graduates win 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize...again!

27 September 2013

After last year’s RIBA Stirling Prize winning Sainsbury Laboratory, for which Cambridge graduate Gavin Henderson was the director responsible for delivering the new building, more Cambridge graduates win the 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize. Witherford Watson Mann Architects, all three architecture graduates from the Department of...

The ArcSoc Student Exhibition 2013 took place at Testbed 1, Battersea from 9-13th July

2 September 2013

Visit the ArcSoc website for information and photographs from the exhibition. Click here for a review of the Exhibition from the Boidus: Blogs website.

Cambridge alumni dominate Designs of the Year 2013

16 April 2013

There were 17 nominations for the Architecture category of the London Design Museum's Designs of the Year 2013 . Of the five UK nominations, three involved former Cambridge students of the 1990s as follows: A Room For London, (Southbank Centre), UK An installation on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre...

First year students stage 'interventions' in Scroope Terrace

19 December 2012

First year students started the year by investigating the indigenous behaviour of the inhabitants of Scroope Terrace. They observed and analysed the tricks, ticks and old habits that characterise people’s daily use of the department’s objects and spaces. By closely analysing the most ordinary and mundane habits they...

Hays Award for Best Student - MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B) won by Tom Powell

21 November 2012

Friday 16 November 2012 Thomas Powell, a former graduate student of the Department of Architecture, received an award from Hays plc for Best Student - MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B). Tom gave a presentation on his project which focuses on agricultural change and development in England’s smaller...