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The Department congratulates PhD student Beke Mchunu on publishing an article in the journal 'Architectural Histories'

11 March 2026

The full piece entitled Field Notes: Objects and Media of the Home can be read here: https://journal.eahn.org/article/id/18874/ Beke is a Harding Distinguished Scholar in the first year of her PhD in the Department, and is supervised by Dr Fiona Smyth . The highly prestigious Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars...

Alternative Housing for Peripheral Populations: Summer School 2026

2 March 2026

This program will take place from July 11 to 31, 2026, in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and has been jointly developed by the Universidad del Valle, the University of Cambridge, and the Universidad del Rosario, offering a high-level academic experience. You can apply to the Summer School here: Summer School 2026...

Professor Flora Samuel will be a Guest Speaker at the Forum on Housing & Urban Planning at The Howard Theatre, Downing College on 24 March from 3-5pm

27 February 2026

The keynote speech will be delivered by the Guest of Honour, the President of the of UN-Habitat Assembly Nga Kor Ming.

Architecture Department alum Kamal Hussain (Kaan) recently won the Gardener’s World “Gardens of the Year” competition (2025) for his innovative – and tiny! – garden in Saltaire, Yorkshire

18 February 2026

At only 4m x 2.5m it was the smallest garden entered into the competition, presenting design challenges which Kamal enthusiastically confronted with innovative planting and multi-tiered beds. Giving directly onto a public canal towpath, the garden became simultaneously a private and public space. Plenty of complimentary...

The design work of our Design Fellows Katie Kasabalis (M.Arch.) and Darius Woo (Second Year Tripos), co-founders of Kasawoo studio, is featured on the cover of 'dwell: The Generations issue'

13 February 2026

Katie is currently co-leading the Fourth and Fifth Years in the M.Arch Design Studio unit Down to Earth (with Giles Smith, Assemble). Read more about The Root , an adapt and extend holiday house, as featured in the article, moving away from the local concrete industry and based on prefabrication and land-preservation...

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

Current job vacancies

The Cambridge Sustainable Design Group within the Department of Architecture invites applications for a Research Assistant or Research...