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Dalibor Vesely Fund

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The Cultural Significance of Architecture: A conference in memory of Dalibor Vesely

The Cultural Significance of Architecture: A conference in memory of Dalibor Vesely overview Dalibor Vesely Memorial Conference Programme Conference videos via the Department YouTube Channel

Session 1: History and Philosophy of Architecture

Session 1: History and Philosophy of Architecture overview To the conference in memory of Dalibor Vesely - José de Paiva Low Relief - or, articulation tied to embodiment - David Leatherbarrow Dalibor Vesely and The Primacy of Orality - Perez-Gomez Karsten Harries - Remembering Dalibor Vesely Robin Middleton - Dalibor Vesely statement The Cultural Significance of Architecture - In Memory of Dalibor Vesely - Mari Hvattum Hvattum_Presentation1 What is the cultural significance of architecture - Peter Carl The Presence of Dalibor Vesely - K Frampton Dalibor Vesely's Flat - The Dwelling as a Communicative Field - Dagmar Weston

Session 2: Design and the European City

Session 2: Design and the European City overview Drawings: David Dernie Chatting about the city - Diana Periton Dalibor Reflections - Mohsen Mostafavi - March2016 Creative Intelligence in Architecture - Phil Meadowcroft Design and the European City - Kalliope Kontozoglou Athanasios Spanomaridis with DALIBOR VESELY To DALIBOR - Athanasios Spanomaridis E.Parry_Dalibor Vesely conference (Session 2)_11 April 2016 CWFrost. Fragment Craft Tradition David Bass - Architecture Laughter and Animals Diana Periton - slides

Session 3: Legacy, New Horizons

Session 3: Legacy, New Horizons overview Carolyn Steel - conference slides Hand Drawings - P Lynch Sitopia – a tribute to Dalibor by Carolyn Steel The Cultural Significance of Architecture - In Memory of Dalibor Vesely - Stephen Witherford Dalibor Vesely and the criticism of architecture - Rowan Moore060416 P LYNCH PRESENTATION - DV SYMPOSIUM EMMANUELLE COLLEGE-opt Architecture's Contribution - Wendy Pullan Biba Dow - Dalibor conf_Session 3 Homa - diffused digital Homa - Conference Slides William Mann - Ruins of the Baroque - slides William Mann - Ruins of the Baroque - Slides and text

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Undergraduate

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Prospective Students

Prospective Students overview Teaching and Assessment Outreach and Widening Participation Student Life Preparing a Portfolio Reading list for Architecture candidates Careers Facilities

Architecture Tripos (MArch)

Architecture Tripos (MArch) overview Year One Architecture Year Two Architecture Year Three Architecture Year Four Architecture Architecture FAQs

Design Tripos (MDes)

Design Tripos (MDes) overview Year One Design Year Two Design Year Three Design Year Four Design Design FAQs A Manifesto for the Design Tripos by Visiting Professor Harbinder Singh Birdi

Postgraduate

Postgraduate overview Master of Architecture (MArch) Degree (ARB/RIBA Part 2) MPhil in Architecture by Thesis MSt in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment

Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Architecture - ARB/ RIBA Part 3

Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Architecture - ARB/ RIBA Part 3 overview HOW TO APPLY for the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Architecture Dates for Cohort 2025-26 Dates for Cohort 2026–27

MSt Architecture Apprenticeship

MSt Architecture Apprenticeship overview Requirements Teaching and Assesment Applying

MSt in Architecture (ARB Part 2)

MSt in Architecture (ARB Part 2) overview Year One Year Two Year Three FAQs

MSt Building History

MSt Building History overview Course Structure Assessment Testimonials Building History Newsletter - Issue 11 April 2022 Building History Newsletter March 2021 Building History Newsletter December 2019 Building History Newsletter July 2018 Building History Newsletter March 2018 Building History Newsletter July 2017 Building History Newsletter April 2017 Building History Newsletter December 2016 Building History Newsletter March 2016 Building History Newsletter 2 February 2015 Building History Newsletter April 2014

Research

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Research Groups

Research Groups overview Cambridge Cognitive Architecture Cambridge Sustainable Design Group

Architecture History and Theory

Architecture History and Theory overview The Library in History The Soane and Freemasonry Water and Civilisation Informal Cities in Latin America Domestic Devotions: the place of piety in the Italian Renaissance home Alvar Aalto’s church architecture in Germany Modern Architecture and the Sacred Projection: Alvar Aalto and the Moving Image

Building Histories

Building Histories overview The Development of the Timber Roof Truss 1660-1710 Wren, St Paul’s and 17th Century Craftsmen Staircases: History, Repair and Conservation History of Doors Proceedings of the Construction History Society Conferences Eighth Annual Conference on Construction History, August 2021 Ninth Conference of the Construction History Society Eleventh Annual Conference of the Construction History Society

History of Brick

History of Brick overview The Development of Brickwork in England 1610-1710 Brick: a World History

Completed PhD Research

Completed PhD Research overview Wartime Huts Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain Wallpaper and Decorating Records 1824-1938 Local Tradition and British Influence in Building Construction in Shanghai (1840-1937) Heating Historic Churches Timber Railway Bridges in the Nineteenth Century

Seventh Annual Conference on Construction History April 2020

Seventh Annual Conference on Construction History April 2020 overview Conference Programme

Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceedings overview Iron and Steel Before the Eighteenth Century Eighteenth Century Nineteenth Century Twentieth Century

Behaviour and Building Performance

Behaviour and Building Performance overview The B-bem project: The Bayesian building energy management Portal The User-TEC project: User Practices, Technologies and Residential Energy Consumption

AHRC Filming Energy Research Network (FERN)

AHRC Filming Energy Research Network (FERN) overview Research Network Members Policy Workshops 2021-22 Filming Workshops (2020-22) A Room in Mumbai Clean cooking and energy transitions in Mukuru (2023-24) Contact us

MINE: Machine learning Intelligence Network for Epidemics

MINE: Machine learning Intelligence Network for Epidemics overview Research & Network Workshop Network Members Contact us APPLY NOW

The Community Design Research Lab

The Community Design Research Lab overview The Cambridge Room The Public Map Platform

Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE)

Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE) overview EXPLORIS Eyewitness Reports of the 26.12.04 South Asian Tsunami LESSLOSS Building damage and casualties in the Kashmir Earthquake of 8.10.05 Indicators for Measuring, Monitoring and Evaluating Post-Disaster Recovery RebuilDD SENSUM Flood Narratives Pan-participatory Assessment and Governance of Earthquake Risks in the Ordos Area (PAGER-O) Learning from Earthquakes: Building Resilient Communities Through Earthquake Reconnaissance, Response and Recovery Expertise Under Pressure

Research Events

Research Events overview The Martin Centre Research Seminar Series Cambridge City Seminars: Urban Guilds in contemporary placemaking The Cambridge Architectural History Seminars

Conferences

Conferences overview

Applied Urban Modelling (AUM)

Applied Urban Modelling (AUM) overview AUM2024: Reconnections AUM2022: Understanding common challenges AUM 2018 AUM 2015 Urban Modelling Archive

AUM 2020

AUM 2020 overview AUM2020 Global Workshop (online) - weblink for call for abstracts Session 1: Launch of the Applied Urban Modelling Symposium 2020 (AUM2020) Session 2: Status report: Around the globe (22 Oct 2020) Session 3: Emerging insights into autonomous driving (26 Oct 2020) Session 4: Taking a long view: the effects of transport investments (29 Oct 2020) Session 5: Modelling from micro to meso and macro scales (2 Nov 2020) Session 6: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: from monitoring to modelling (5 Nov 2020) Session 7: Urban mobility: now and future (9 Nov 2020) Session 8: The economics of cities (12 Nov 2020) Session 9: Modelling Large City Regions (16 Nov 2020) Session 10: The microscopic dimensions (19 Nov 2020) Session 11: Urban modelling and the planning of the built environment (23 Nov 2020) Session 12: Spatial modelling as rapid response to mitigate the pandemic (26 Nov 2020) Session 14: Concluding session (3 Dec 2020)

Joint Cambridge-Berkeley Urban Design Charrette

Joint Cambridge-Berkeley Urban Design Charrette overview Old Oak Common, London: ‘Fundamental Questions’ Old Oak and Park Royal: Guided Tour Briefing Pack

Scroope Journal

Scroope Journal overview Current Issue

Current PhD Research in the Department

Current PhD Research in the Department overview Sam Aitkenhead: The unintended consequences of designing out friction from the home of the future Karam Alkatlabe: How can Digital Participatory Planning and Collaborative Urban Design reshape the urban recovery process in post-disaster cities? The case of Damascus Anna Michelle Behr: Understanding the English Country House Hotel: The First Country House Hotel Conversions in the mid-Nineteenth Century until the Second World War Fatma Beyza Celebi: Cosmopolitan Nostalgia: Examining local memory in contemporary Istanbul focusing on spatial and visual representations of the city’s cosmopolitanism in the 1920s and 1930s Mohamed Derbal: Space, Time and Community: German Architectural Discourse and the Search for National Unity, 1890-1914 Joshua Dimasaka: Global Disaster Risk Audit using Artificial Intelligence and Earth Observation Data Rikke Duus: Connecting to our being: exploring the atmospheric impact on lived experiences in urban spaces Hamideh Farahmandian: An Investigation into the Cinematic Representations of Spatial Poverty Trap in Tehran (1963–2022) Nicholas Frayne: Spaces of Violence and Healing: the material agency of architecture in justice in Kenya Vendela Gambill: Collaborative planning: identifying barriers to housing delivery in London at multiple geographic scales I-Dec Goh: Bias mitigated data-driven façade design of social housing in Singapore using thermal and imaging information Elizabeth Baldwin Gray: Conceptions of the Gothic: Romantic Medievalism in Early Modern German Architecture Charlie Hamilton (FCILT): Mass Transit in Small to Medium Sized Cities Fengyuan (Simon) Han: A New Analytical Model to Support Railway Infrastructure and Urban Development in Low Income Countries Noura Haddad: Measuring Physiological Response to Space: Magnetocardiographic detection of pre-cognitive cardiac inflammatory responses to architectural environments Juliet Harrison-Egan: Spaces of Education: the role of schools in the post-apartheid city Yu Hu: The Evolution of Urban Office Space in The Age of Information and Communication Technology Sean Hughes: The 21st Century Suburb: A Method for Transit Driven Redevelopment in North American Suburbia Tom Joashi: Rethinking Urban Conflict Through the French Wars of Religion (1550-1572) Lingchen Kong: The Cognitive Steppe: Placemaking, Networks, and Cultural Persistence in Urban Hohhot Saitabau Kumary: Adaptability of Buildings and Cities to High Temperature: A Thermal Resilient Assessment of Nairobi City Mohamed Hesham Khalil: Architectural enrichment for hippocampal neurogenesis: Layout spatial complexity and stairs-based physical activity Sophie Lanigan: Between City and Sea: The Design of Coastal Urban Seascapes with Oysters as an Architectural Response to Climate Change Yufei Li: Atlas in Motion: Visualising Manchuria through Moving Images Mariana Llano Valencia: Challenging the influence of coloniality, whiteness and patriarchy in urban planning in Cartagena, Colombia Noor Mazhar: Incremental Densification: The production, regularisation, and regulation of rental housing markets in Cape Town, South Africa Fatma Mhmood: Social Narratives and Women’s Spatial Experiences of Parks and Desert Landscapes in the UAE Heather Mitcheltree: Geographies of gendered and domestic violence in Australia Mihaela Mitrovic: On the Interplay of Neuroscience and Architecture, or How Architectural and Urban Spaces Influence Human Cognition, Emotion and Behaviour: The Case of Awe, Affordance, and Urban Wellbeing Ummiye Seyda Mutlu: Urban Rooms: Places of Mediation, Participation, and Urban Change Luka Pajovic: ‘Temples fit for Thee’: Framing the classical church interior in seventeenth-century London Jiayu Pan: Redesigning interior spaces to accommodate social distancing for the rare events Lingzi Pan: The role of social connectedness in quality-of-life measurement and urban modelling Filomena Russo Abdullah Hasan Safir: Designing AI for Epistemic Justice Michael Salka: On the Origin of Buildings: Social-Ecological Networks Provisioning the Built Environment Lei Song: Fountains, Baths, and Urban Water Supply in England, 1400 - 1800 Maoran Sun: Scenario-based strategies for decarbonizing Hard-to-Decarbonize housing Chuheng Tan: Exploring the Integration of Mycelium Biocomposite into Building System Cleo Valentine: Architectural Neuroimmunology: Assessing the Impact of Architectural Form on Human Neuroinflammation Jeroen van Ameijde: Quality of life in high-density urban environments: Data-driven analysis of Hong Kong’s public housing environments and social interaction Eimar Watson: The British Marble Industry 1748-1905 Eduardo Wiegand: The Life Cycle Design of Multi-storey Wood Buildings: opportunities for efficiency across the construction value chain Ruaa Jawdat Yagkhmour: Between Domination and Liberation: Exploring Paradoxes in Urban Planning Practices in the West Bank, Palestine Di Zhao: European Railway Buildings in China 1890-1940: an example of cross-cultural exchange Lingzheng Zhu: Mediating Nature: The Practice of Synthetic Media in the Contemporary Eastern Context

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