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The Department congratulates Saitabau Kumary on international win in Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition

13 April 2026

The Department of Architecture is delighted to congratulate Saitabau Kumary , a third-year PhD student, on winning the prestigious Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition, organised by the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre in partnership with the IFRC and the Global Disaster Preparedness Centre. Saitabau is a...

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) has awarded the 2025 Science Communication Award (Long Print) to Dr Fiona Smyth for her book 'Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century'

25 March 2026

The ASA selection committee praised the work for its ‘vivid storytelling and meticulous research,’ noting that it ‘reveals how bold experiments and interdisciplinary collaboration transformed buildings into instruments and defined modern concert hall design.’ The award will be formally presented at the upcoming ASA Meeting...

Buildings Journal Editor’s Choice Recognition for Research on Inclusive Built Environments

20 March 2026

We are delighted to share that Dr. Matteo Zallio , Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, has received the Editor’s Choice Article distinction from Buildings (MDPI) for his publication, “Exploring Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in the Built Environment: A Case Study.” This recognition...

The Department congratulates alumni Nyahalo Tucker (BA 2025), Minsung Son (BA 2025) and Sam El-Bahja (BA 2025) on being selected as members of New Architecture Writer’s 2026 cohort

18 March 2026

New Architecture Writers (N.A.W.) is an experiment in radical architectural pedagogy with the intention of disrupting the conventional institutions of architectural discourse. N.A.W. began in 2017 and has since become a platform for new writing about architecture and cities by emerging critics of colour. The programme is...

SCROOPE 35: SCAFFOLD: Call for Abstracts

18 March 2026

Scroope, the Cambridge University architecture journal, invites abstract submissions for its 35th edition, themed Scaffold. Scaffold is understood here as condition: provisional, adaptive, and generative. This edition seeks contributions that engage with scaffolding as material, method, and metaphor. A work that...

The Department congratulates Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor on his new role as the Executive Director of CHIA (Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence)

16 March 2026

Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, will step into a new role as Executive Director at CHIA , strengthening CHIA's Directorship and wider team in delivering on the Centre's strategic priorities and operations. Dr Debnath specialises in human-centric AI for climate and sustainability...

Workshops of refugees and host communities in Uganda for climate resilience

16 March 2026

On December 2025 and January 2026, Dr Irit Katz , together with Dr Gabriel Karubanga and a team from Makerere University, organised two workshops In the districts of Hoima and Kasese in Uganda to investigate and respond to growing climate-related vulnerabilities in refugee-hosting districts, where environmental degradation...

The Department congratulates Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor on the publication of his paper exploring the dynamic relationship between AI data centres and the environment

13 March 2026

This is a first-of-its-kind global sociotechnical review of the changing relationship between rapidly growing AI data centre and the burdens on the energy and the environment. This research identifies institutional constraints, technology gaps, and resistance to behavioral change are major barriers. Nine future research...

The Department congratulates PhD student Beke Mchunu on publishing an article in the journal 'Architectural Histories'

11 March 2026

The full piece entitled Field Notes: Objects and Media of the Home can be read here: https://journal.eahn.org/article/id/18874/ Beke is a Harding Distinguished Scholar in the first year of her PhD in the Department, and is supervised by Dr Fiona Smyth . The highly prestigious Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars...

Alternative Housing for Peripheral Populations: Summer School 2026

2 March 2026

This program will take place from July 11 to 31, 2026, in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and has been jointly developed by the Universidad del Valle, the University of Cambridge, and the Universidad del Rosario, offering a high-level academic experience. You can apply to the Summer School here: Summer School 2026...