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The Department congratulates 3rd year student Dami Fadun on winning a Gensler 2024 Diversity in Design prize

10 October 2024

For more information on the Gensler Diversity in Design Bursaries and Prizes visit: Diversity in Design Bursary | Gensler

PhD candidate Maoran Sun has been awarded the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme as a placement student for 2024/25 at the Alan Turing Institute

8 October 2024

The Turing Enrichment scheme ( https://www.turing.ac.uk/work-turing/studentships/enrichment ) offers students currently enrolled on a doctoral programme at a UK university the opportunity to join and work at the Alan Turing Institute for up to twelve months where they can continue their PhD while enriching their research...

The Public Map Platform project led by Professor Flora Samuel has had recent events publicised widely on Welsh BBC

1 October 2024

The LLe Lais events were featured on BBC Wales and various Welsh channels at the end of September. https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fiplayer%2Fepisode%2Fp0jqn3n1%2Fnewyddion-a-chwaraeon-sun-29-sep-2024&data=05%7C02%7Cfbs22%40universityofcambridgecloud.onmicrosoft.com%...

On Thursday 7 November from 2-3pm (UK time) the MSt Building History course will be holding an online Open Day

1 October 2024

If you would like to learn more about the course and chat to the Course Director, Dr Adam Menuge, please contact the MSt Building History Course Administrator on: building-history@aha.cam.ac.uk who will add your name to the attendance list and contact you later. The session will cover all aspects of the course including...

Assistant Prof. Dr. Michal Gath-Morad awarded a £770,000 SNF-Funded EVIDENT Project (Co-PI) to Investigate How Emergency Department Design Impacts Healthcare Workers' Face-to-Face Communication and Patient Care

30 September 2024

mgm_grant_carousel.jpg Faculty member, Dr. Gath-Morad has been awarded an SNF grant (£770,000) as a Co-PI, alongside Christoph Hölscher (ETH Zurich) and Ruth Conroy Dalton (Northumbria University), for the EVIDENT project, which investigates how Emergency Department (ED) design influences healthcare workers' face-to-face (...

MAUD Alumna Patricia Mato-Mora publishes paper in ARENA Journal of Architectural Research

30 September 2024

MAUD Alumna and newly-appointed Cambridge Design Teaching Fellow Patricia Mato-Mora has been published in the ARENA Journal of Architectural Research (AJAR), edited by Dr Murray Fraser and Dr Steve Parnell. AJAR is an online Open Access peer-reviewed journal for all kinds of design research and scholarly research within...

Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century: a new book by Dr Fiona Smyth is out now

26 September 2024

The book is a ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain. On a winter’s night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul’s Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scientific demonstration of new techniques in acoustic...

Irit Katz, the Academic Director of the newly established Hannah Arendt Consortium, invites all to participate in the launch event Hannah Arendt and Common Worldbuilding in a New Age of Extremes

24 September 2024

Hannah Arendt and Common Worldbuilding in a New Age of Extremes Consortium Launch Event Keynote by Bonnie Honig 26-27 September 2024 at the University of Cambridge Join us for a two-day event for the launch of the Hannah Arendt Consortium on Crises and Political Transformation . The consortium is dedicated to confronting...

Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture, 2024

4 September 2024

The Department would like to thank and congratulate all students who took part in this year’s Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture. In just a week, students learned basic drawing and modelling techniques, and designed a project of their own. The brief this year asked students to devise a new folly for Hobson’s...

Possible Landscapes: Debut Screening of new film by Assistant Professor Dr Tao Dufour will take place at Cornell University on September 25th 2024

3 September 2024

The film is a collaboration between a documentary filmmaker, Kanan Arunasalam and two professors, Tao DuFour (Architecture) a spatial theorist and Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature) a postcolonial comparatist and scholar of Caribbean thought, Possible Landscapes is the outcome of the team research project, “Possible...