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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...

We are delighted to announce an exhibition about Chilean architect José Cruz Ovalle to be held in King’s College Chapel between 1st and 28 September 2025

23 July 2025

Felipe Hernández, Director of the M.Phil in Architecture and Urban Studies has organised an exhibition of the work of Chilean Architect José Cruz Ovalle. This is an exceptional opportunity to discover the work of a remarkable Latin American architect. The exhibition is to be held in the Chapel at King's College Cambridge...

In Memoriam - Professor Andrew Saint 

21 July 2025

The Faculty is sad to report that Andrew Saint passed away peacefully on Wednesday 16 July after a long fight with illness. Andrew was appointed as a Professor in the Department in 1995, teaching architectural history. He had already a published Richard Norman Shaw (1976); Image of an Architect (1983); T owards a Social...

Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth Shortlisted for Book Prizes

17 July 2025

The Department of Architecture is delighted to share that Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth has been shortlisted for several book awards for Pistols in St Paul’s : Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century: The book has been shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/...

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....