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Professor Emily So will be speaking about her research into the recent earthquakes in Turkey at the Hay Festival

30 May 2023

The talk, entitled 'Elements of a Catastrophe', will take place on Thursday 1st June 2023 at 2:30 pm. For more information visit: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-20502-emily-so.aspx Ahead of her talk at the Hay Festival, Professor So has discussed investment in resilient infrastructure with the Lloyd's Register Foundation...

MAUD Alumna Patricia Mato-Mora publishes paper in Craft Research Journal

15 May 2023

MAUD Alumna Patricia Mato-Mora has been published in Craft Research Journal. The aim of Craft Research is to advocate and promote current and emerging craft research, including research into materials, processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. Mato-Mora’s article, 'A Single Ecstasy' has been recently featured in...

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 31st issue of the Scroope Journal on Architectural Magazines Around the World

10 May 2023

Celebrating thirty years into its own journey, Scroope 31 pauses in self-reflection to interrogate the very purpose behind architectural publications. Beyond one-off manifestos and celebrated books, architectural publications can be extended spaces of recurring expression and discussion – from influential magazines, and...

Alumni Stefanos Roimpas has just had a book entitled 'Perspective as Logic: Positioning Film in Architecture' based on PhD research published by Routledge

1 May 2023

Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline’s repertoire. The book determines the screen’s conditions of possibility by critically asking not what a screen means, but how it can mean anything of architectural significance. Based on this...

The Department would like to congratulate Professor Yasmeen Lari, our 2022-23 Sir Arthur Marshall Professor of Sustainable Urban Design, on receiving the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for architecture 2023

27 April 2023

This high honour is given in recognition of Yasmeen Lari's long and productive career championing zero-carbon solutions for housing displaced populations and has been approved by King Charles III personally. For more information about the award visit: https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards...

Elain Harwood 1958-2023

27 April 2023

It was with great sadness and real shock that we learnt of the death last week of Elain Harwood. Elain was a tireless advocate for twentieth-century architecture. Her career with English Heritage and later Historic England was largely devoted to identifying, researching, publishing and protecting the best of modern...

The Department is delighted to be ranked 1st for Architecture once again in the Guardian best UK universities 2023 subject rankings

26 April 2023

For more information visit: https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2022/sep/24/the-guardian-university-guide-2023-the-rankings

The Department's Professor Emily So has been interviewed by the BBC about her work assessing earthquake damage in Turkey

14 March 2023

Structural and civil engineers from the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team have travelled to Turkey to help to investigate the damage caused by the recent earthquake. Professor Emily So, director of the Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment, is co-leading the investigation, the findings...

Ana Gatóo, PhD student and Teaching Associate in the Department of Architecture, has been listed for the second year running as one of 100 women to watch in architecture

8 March 2023

Ana Gatóo is also a partner in Light Earth Designs , whose work most notably includes the Rwanda Cricket Stadium in Kigali, which was awarded the 2018 A+Awards Popular Winner in the Stadium category. Click here to read the full list on Architizer: https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/industry/women-to-watch-in-...

'Conspiracy spillovers and geoengineering': Article co-authored by Cambridge Zero Research Fellow Dr Ramit Debnath featured in Time Magazine and the Independent

7 March 2023

Authors : Dr Ramit Debnath, et al Title : Conspiracy spillovers and geoengineering Published : 28 Feb 2023 (Open Access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106166 ) Read the feature in Time Magazine: https://time.com/6259474/climate-conspiracy-theories-fear/ Read the feature in the Independent: https://www...