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Read more at: Marie-José Van Hee’s Architecture in Dialogue with Aalto

Marie-José Van Hee’s Architecture in Dialogue with Aalto

4 September 2025

The Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki is hosting an online event celebrating the architecture of Marie-José Van Hee, who was announced as the 15 th recipient of the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal in 2024 . The panel discussion, on Tuesday 9 th September at 2.30 British time, will bring together architect Sam De...


Read more at: Professor Flora Samuel has been interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s 'Building Soul' featuring Thomas Heatherwick

Professor Flora Samuel has been interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s 'Building Soul' featuring Thomas Heatherwick

3 September 2025

The episode is entitled 'Making 'Making' Great Again'. Listen to the full episode here: Building Soul: with Thomas Heatherwick Series 2


Read more at: Dr Carolina Vasilikou is co-organising, in collaboration with the University of Plymouth, an active workshop entitled On the Sea Edge: Creative Approaches to Marine and Coastal Futures, for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2025

Dr Carolina Vasilikou is co-organising, in collaboration with the University of Plymouth, an active workshop entitled On the Sea Edge: Creative Approaches to Marine and Coastal Futures, for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2025

29 August 2025

How can we think differently and creatively about the stories and encounters with marine spaces as places, landscapes and environments? Through the many theoretical and critical approaches to this topic, we seek to explore the potential creative and experimental methodologies. In this workshop we use the term ‘sea edge’ to...


Read more at: Assistant Professor’s Film Selected for Prestigious Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival

Assistant Professor’s Film Selected for Prestigious Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival

27 August 2025

We are proud to announce that Possible Landscapes , a film co-produced by Assistant Professor Dr Tao DuFour, has been officially selected for screening at the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival this September. Chosen from an impressive pool of 2,278 submissions, Possible Landscapes explores themes of environment...


Read more at: Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture, 2025

Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture, 2025

26 August 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 cohort of Sutton Trust Summer School students! This year’s summer school took eighteen students to the Paradise Nature Reserve in Cambridge to design a new bridge. Proposals ranged from high-tech modular schemes to romantically crafted designs, each presenting a convincing structural rationale...


Read more at: The department congratulates Tong Chen for publishing her MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS) research in Machine Learning: Earth journal by IOP Press

The department congratulates Tong Chen for publishing her MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS) research in Machine Learning: Earth journal by IOP Press

30 July 2025

Tong Chen is supervised by Dr Ramit Debnath (Assistant Professor and MAUS Director), in this research they asked the hard question: Is AI ready to design low-carbon cities? Read more here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/3049-4753/adde60


Read more at: Former Department Lecturer Lorna McNeur's Architectural Model Acquired by MoMA

Former Department Lecturer Lorna McNeur's Architectural Model Acquired by MoMA

28 July 2025

We are delighted to share that a pedagogical model by former lecturer and Emeritus Fellow, Lorna McNeur,has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for its permanent collection. The model, created in 1976 during Lorna’s first year of architectural study at The Cooper Union, is her interpretation of the...


Read more at: We are delighted to announce an exhibition about Chilean architect José Cruz Ovalle to be held in King’s College Chapel between 1st and 28 September 2025

We are delighted to announce an exhibition about Chilean architect José Cruz Ovalle to be held in King’s College Chapel between 1st and 28 September 2025

23 July 2025

Felipe Hernández, Director of the M.Phil in Architecture and Urban Studies has organised an exhibition of the work of Chilean Architect José Cruz Ovalle. This is an exceptional opportunity to discover the work of a remarkable Latin American architect. The exhibition is to be held in the Chapel at King's College Cambridge...


Read more at: In Memoriam - Professor Andrew Saint 

In Memoriam - Professor Andrew Saint 

21 July 2025

The Faculty is sad to report that Andrew Saint passed away peacefully on Wednesday 16 July after a long fight with illness. Andrew was appointed as a Professor in the Department in 1995, teaching architectural history. He had already a published Richard Norman Shaw (1976); Image of an Architect (1983); T owards a Social...


Read more at: Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth Shortlisted for Book Prizes

Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth Shortlisted for Book Prizes

17 July 2025

The Department of Architecture is delighted to share that Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth has been shortlisted for several book awards for Pistols in St Paul’s : Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century: The book has been shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/...