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It is with great sadness that the Faculty has learnt of the death of Robin Middleton, at the age of 94. Robin was the Faculty Librarian and a University Lecturer from 1972 until 1987. The post of Librarian at the time was the only joint appointment in the Faculty, shared between the Departments of Architecture and History of Art. As an architect an…

DISORDEROn the legacy of Giancarlo De CarloResearch conferenceDepartment of Architecture6th and 7th November 2026In 1993, when Giancarlo De Carlo was awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Colin St John Wilson described him as 'the Master of the Resistance' and 'the most lucid of his generation of architect-philo…

The Department of Architecture was delighted to host Afterimage, the 2026 annual end-of-year exhibition organised by the University of Cambridge Architecture Society (ARCSOC), celebrating the creativity, ambition and diversity of work produced by students across all five years of the Architecture programme.Presented across two venues, the exhibitio…

The Department celebrates the publication of Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library, Joar Nango (ed. Axel Wieder, 2026), published by Bergen Kunsthall and Sternberg Press. The book includes a research essay by Dr Sofia Nivarti, Associate Professor of Architecture, titled ‘Contradictory Contemporaneity? Sámi Building in Nordic Architectural Disco…

On Friday, July 17, the Department of Architecture hosted an international conference on the theme of Situated Imagination and Imaginaries of Urban Futures. Organised the SIITE research group at the Department, under the leadership of Nicholas Frayne, Ruaa Yagkhmour and Dr. Irit Katz, the conference brought together scholars, practitioners, and res…

The Department congratulates Associate Professor and Executive Director (CHIA) Dr Ramit Debnath and colleagues from Caltech, USA on being awarded the Best Paper Award at the world’s leading AI conference: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026, Seoul for their paper titled "Rethinking Psychometric Evaluation of LLMs: When and Why …

Research led by Dr Matteo Zallio, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, has received the 2026 Buildings Best Paper Award for the paper Exploring Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in the Built Environment: A Case Study.Published in the international journal Buildings (MDPI), the paper was…

The Department congratulates Yueyue Wu for her outstanding MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies dissertation research on causal machine learning and heatwave interventions in Global South cities, for which she received the prestigious Alexander Pike Prize 2026. Yueyue is a member of the Collective Intelligence and Design Group, supervised by Dr …

The first exclusive apprenticeship graduation exhibition was held at the Filet Gallery in central London on Thursday 26thJune, with special guests Simon Henley and Keith Williams in attendance along with final project guest tutor Patrick Lynch. In spite of the hot weather the event was very well attended, with many of our employer-collaborators as …

The award is sponsored by Savills and an important fixture in the East Anglian construction and development world. Helen Su completed the MSt in Architecture earlier this year and has now qualified as an architect, and Jasmin is currently concluding her second year.This is the second time that Helen’s practice has won a regional award. Andy Elliot,…

The department congratulates Professor Ronita Bardhan, Gates Scholar Adhib Hussain Syed and Associate Professor Ramit Debnath on securing a grant from ai@cam and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to build human-inspired AI tools (PRISM: PRISM: Predictive Risk Intelligence for Social housing Maintenance) to help Cambridge Cit…

Every year, judging panels comprising distinguished architects, designers, engineers, journalists, and artists select the winners of the RIBA President's Medals (Bronze, Silver and Dissertation) from entries submitted by schools of architecture worldwide. Carolina is excited to be a member of an amazing judging panel chaired by Wynne Leung. Find ou…

The department congratulates Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor and Executive Director of Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) on publishing new environmental data science research paper in Nature Communications. This research makes a core contribution to how traditional heat impact models often rely heavily on absolute climatic conditions, like …

Organised by Assistant ProfessorDr Carolina Vasilikou, in collaboration with Manchester School of Architecture, and supported by our Director of Research,Dr Darshil Shah. The TECHNICA 4 Convention aims to bring together all the Technology Leads from Schools of Architecture across the UK to discuss current and future challenges related to Technologi…

Congratulations to architecture alumni Sam Elbahja and apprentice Thomas Brzezicki on being nominated for the prestigious AJ100 New Talent Awards in the Part 1 category. Organised by The Architects’ Journal, the award celebrates emerging talent making exceptional contributions to architectural practice and the wider profession. Sam was recognised f…