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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 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-2024#

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...

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...

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-...

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...

Current job vacancies

The Department of Architecture at Cambridge University seeks to hire two permanent Assistant Professors in Architecture and Design to...

The Department of Architecture wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Architecture and/or Urban Design. The...