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Harnessing AI for addressing air pollution in cities

14 May 2025

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor, on the publication of ‘Physics-based machine learning for predicting urban air pollution using decadal time series data’ in Environmental Research Communications. In this collaborative work with Caltech, researchers develop a new model and...

The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art is proud to retain our Athena Swan Bronze Award for Gender Equality

13 May 2025

The Athena Swan award is a national framework used in higher education and research to promote gender equality and advance the careers of women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) and other fields. It recognises institutions and departments that demonstrate a commitment to creating a more...

The department congratulates our first-ever MPhil (MAUS) students from Bhutan, Pema Yangzom and Sonam Choden, on publishing their MAUS dissertation in a top urban planning journal, Cities

12 May 2025

This dissertation was supervised by Dr Ronita Bardhan and can be read in full here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125001878 . This research empirically shows that in Bhutan, happiness isn't just a philosophy—it shapes policies, communities, and even housing. The paper ‘Residential Satisfaction...

Celebrating the publication of “Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World”

24 April 2025

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Sofia Nivarti, Assistant Professor of Architecture, on the publication of Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World . The collected volume, edited by Bert De Jonghe and Elise Misao Hunchuck and published by Actar , assembles forty-six contributors—designers, educators...

Join us on Wednesday, 30 April, at 5:30pm in LR1 for the first ‘Siteseeing’ film forum screening this term, featuring 'is this an architectural documentary?'

23 April 2025

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Prof. Tariq Jazeel (UCL Department of Geography) and Sumedha Kelegama (film director). is this an architectural documentary? (Irushi Tennekoon, Sumedha Kelegama and Sumudu Athukorala, 2023, 60 minutes) explores a housing scheme designed by Minnette De Silva (1918-1998)...

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

Current job vacancies

The Department of Architecture invites applications for two full-time Teaching Associates working within the Department of Architecture...