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Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth Shortlisted for Royal Historical Society Book Prize

29 May 2025

The Department of Architecture is delighted to share that Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s (RHS) prestigious First Book Prize for Early Career Historians. Her monograph, Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century , is one of only...

Cambridge Architecture Alumni recognised in AJ100 New Talent Shortlist

29 May 2025

We are delighted to congratulate Alfred Yeung (MAUD 2018–2020) on being shortlisted as a 2025 New Architect in the prestigious AJ100 New Talent awards. The shortlist recognises emerging voices in architecture making an impact through both design and thought leadership. Alfred’s professional journey has continued to evolve...

The Department's Professor Emily So is one of the judges for the 2025 Institution of Civil Engineers East of England Merit Awards

16 May 2025

The Awards celebrate the work of professionals engaged in civil engineering infrastructure and the built environment in East of England. You can find more information: https://www.ice.org.uk/about-us/ice-near-you/uk/ice-east-of-england/awards

Dr Fiona Smyth elected to Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

16 May 2025

Dr Fiona Smyth has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). Founded in 1868, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) is the UK’s foremost society working for historians and history.Fellowship is awarded to scholars who have made an original and significant contribution to historical scholarship through their...

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...

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

Current job vacancies

Applications are invited for three Design Teaching Fellows in the Department of Architecture. These post are fractional, i.e. 25.3% of...

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