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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
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
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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
Dalibor Vesely Memorial Conference Programme
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Structural Bamboo Products (SBP)
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Structural Bamboo Pavilion. International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS 2015). Muziekgebouw. Amsterdam
Polymer Modified Timber
Masonry Vaulting
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Tile Vaulting
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The Martin Centre: Sustainable buildings and Cities
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Global Land Enclosures, Urban-Technology, and Experimental Property in Medellin’s Comunas
African Modernism: Architecture of Independence
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Eyewitness Reports of the 26.12.04 South Asian Tsunami
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Learning from Earthquakes: Building Resilient Communities Through Earthquake Reconnaissance, Response and Recovery
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Public Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding
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The Development of Brickwork in England 1610-1710
Brick: a World History
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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
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Iron and Steel
Before the Eighteenth Century
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Eighth Annual Conference on Construction History, August 2021
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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
Hans Döllgast (1891-1974): Witness and Protagonist of Modern Architecture in Germany
Projection: Alvar Aalto and the Moving Image
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Applied Urban Modelling (AUM)
Applied Urban Modelling (AUM) overview
AUM2024: Reconnections
AUM2022: Understanding common challenges
AUM 2020
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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)
AUM 2018
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Urban Modelling Archive
Joint Cambridge-Berkeley Urban Design Charrette
Joint Cambridge-Berkeley Urban Design Charrette overview
John G. Ellis: Urban Design Seminar: Teaching Urban Design: A Hands-on Experience
Old Oak Common, London: ‘Fundamental Questions’
Old Oak Masterplan:Question & Answer Session for shortlisted tenderers
Old Oak and Park Royal: Guided Tour Briefing Pack
PARK ROYAL ATLAS: An Employment Study of London’s Largest Industrial Area
Spectres of Time in Space: Tracing Phantom Temporalities with Architectural Methodologies
Current PhD Research in the Department
Current PhD Research in the Department overview
Ibrahim Abdou: Cairo’s Vacant Houses: Trajectories of accumulation, regulation, and improvisation
Karam Alkatlabe: How can Digital Participatory Planning and Collaborative Urban Design reshape the urban recovery process in post-disaster cities? The case of Damascus
Sam Aitkenhead: The unintended consequences of designing out friction from the home of the future
Anna Michelle Behr: Understanding the English Country House Hotel: Early Hotel Conversions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Anna Boldina: Urban Hiking. Factors that can persuade pedestrians to choose more physically challenging routes in urban environment, in connection with their physical abilities
Anna Boldina: Urban Hiking. Factors that can persuade pedestrians to choose more physically challenging routes in urban environment, in connection with their physical abilities overview
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
Michael Collins: The transformative potential of urban agriculture: Re-framing architectural theory and practice
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
Hamideh Farahmandian: An Investigation into the Cinematic Representations of Urban Informality in Iran
Nicholas Frayne: Spaces of Violence and Healing: the material agency of architecture in peacebuilding in Kenya
Vendela Gambill: Land use planning and applied urban modelling: natural limits to growth in London
Yelda Gin: Emerging Earthen Architecture: Digital Design and Fabrication for Building with Earth
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
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
Yasser M. Khaldi: Governing Renewable Energy Transition in Conflict Contexts: The Case of Palestine
Bing-Tao Lee: Biophilic Design and Mental Wellbeing: The Relationship Between Indoor Plants, Positive Emotions and Behaviour
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
Yusi Luo: Housing Choices of Young graduates in the UK
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
Ekaterina Mizrokhi: Life in Anachronistic Space: Awaiting Demolition in Moscow's Soviet-era Standardised Housing
Ummiye Seyda Mutlu: Urban Rooms: Places of Mediation, Participation, and Urban Change
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
Zhikai Peng: Exploring Urban Spatial Behaviour Under Thermal Stress: How variations in sun and wind conditions due to urban form affect public space use?
Georgia Politi: The life and work of Sir Horace Jones, PRIBA (1819-1887)
Natcha Ruamsanitwong: Modernising Britain: Sir Leslie Martin (1908-2000) and his role in shaping the Architectural Education in Britain
Filomena Russo: Restorative characteristics of intermediate architectural environments
Michael Salka: The Role of Geospatial Data in Developing Nature-Based Value Chains for the Built Environment
Aisha Sobey: Urban futures: The implications of smart cities and digital living for wellbeing
Lei Song: Fountains, Baths, and Urban Water Supply in England, 1400 - 1800
Maoran Sun: Scenario-based strategies for decarbonizing Hard-to-Decarbonize housing
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
Jonathan Weston: Beyond the Pretty Picture: Exploring the Aesthetic and Function of the Architectural Visualisation
Eduardo Wiegand: The Life Cycle Design of Multi-storey Wood Buildings: opportunities for efficiency across the construction value chain
Yue Ying: Understanding variability in neighbourhood responses to regeneration initiatives
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
Shanshan Xie: An investigation of heterogeneous commute mode choices to link travel demands to flexible working policies: using an Early Stopping Bayesian Data Assimilation
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