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Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth Shortlisted for Royal Historical Society Book Prize

29 May 2025

The Department of Architecture is delighted to share that Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s (RHS) prestigious First Book Prize for Early Career Historians. Her monograph, Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century , is one of only...

Cambridge Architecture Alumni recognised in AJ100 New Talent Shortlist

29 May 2025

We are delighted to congratulate Alfred Yeung (MAUD 2018–2020) on being shortlisted as a 2025 New Architect in the prestigious AJ100 New Talent awards. The shortlist recognises emerging voices in architecture making an impact through both design and thought leadership. Alfred’s professional journey has continued to evolve...

The Department's Professor Emily So is one of the judges for the 2025 Institution of Civil Engineers East of England Merit Awards

16 May 2025

The Awards celebrate the work of professionals engaged in civil engineering infrastructure and the built environment in East of England. You can find more information: https://www.ice.org.uk/about-us/ice-near-you/uk/ice-east-of-england/awards

Dr Fiona Smyth elected to Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

16 May 2025

Dr Fiona Smyth has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). Founded in 1868, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) is the UK’s foremost society working for historians and history.Fellowship is awarded to scholars who have made an original and significant contribution to historical scholarship through their...

Harnessing AI for addressing air pollution in cities

14 May 2025

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor, on the publication of ‘Physics-based machine learning for predicting urban air pollution using decadal time series data’ in Environmental Research Communications. In this collaborative work with Caltech, researchers develop a new model and...

The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art is proud to retain our Athena Swan Bronze Award for Gender Equality

13 May 2025

The Athena Swan award is a national framework used in higher education and research to promote gender equality and advance the careers of women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) and other fields. It recognises institutions and departments that demonstrate a commitment to creating a more...

The department congratulates our first-ever MPhil (MAUS) students from Bhutan, Pema Yangzom and Sonam Choden, on publishing their MAUS dissertation in a top urban planning journal, Cities

12 May 2025

This dissertation was supervised by Dr Ronita Bardhan and can be read in full here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125001878 . This research empirically shows that in Bhutan, happiness isn't just a philosophy—it shapes policies, communities, and even housing. The paper ‘Residential Satisfaction...

Celebrating the publication of “Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World”

24 April 2025

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Sofia Nivarti, Assistant Professor of Architecture, on the publication of Arctic Practices: Design for a Changing World . The collected volume, edited by Bert De Jonghe and Elise Misao Hunchuck and published by Actar , assembles forty-six contributors—designers, educators...

Join us on Wednesday, 30 April, at 5:30pm in LR1 for the first ‘Siteseeing’ film forum screening this term, featuring 'is this an architectural documentary?'

23 April 2025

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Prof. Tariq Jazeel (UCL Department of Geography) and Sumedha Kelegama (film director). is this an architectural documentary? (Irushi Tennekoon, Sumedha Kelegama and Sumudu Athukorala, 2023, 60 minutes) explores a housing scheme designed by Minnette De Silva (1918-1998)...

Research by Dr Ronita Bardhan is now part of University of Cambridge’s flagship initiative on Using AI to Protect Nature and Climate

22 April 2025

Dr Ronita Bardhan, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, has been featured in the University’s flagship initiative on Using AI to Protect Nature and Climate . Her research is recognised for its pioneering use of artificial intelligence to address the dual...