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UE:EU is hosting a conference and exhibition on the 17th and 18th of March 2015 at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge to discuss the implications of emergent risks on the built environment and its inhabitants.

9 March 2015

Tuesday 17th March 2015 URBAN GOVERNANCE : CONFLICT & INFORMALITY URBAN UNCERTAINTY : STRESSES & STRAINS & Wednesday 18th March 2015 URBAN COMPLEXITY : STRATEGY & TECHNOLOGY URBAN PSYCHOLOGY : PEOPLE & CRISIS The two day conference will focus on international and interdisciplinary perspectives on risk...

Mary Ann Steane has won the Pilkington Teaching Prize for 2015, awarded by Cambridge University.

9 March 2015

Official titles do not sufficiently convey Mary Ann Steane's deep understanding of and commitment to the problem of how architecture students learn to design. To successfully take on such a personal and subjective discipline requires both a teacher and an enabler: as well as conveying knowledge and experience, one must...

PHD student Edward Barsley is shortlisted for international Landscape Institute competition.

5 March 2015

Edward’s project - Transition to a Coastal Landscape: designing a flood resilient coastal settlement in Par Docks, Cornwall was one of eight film ideas shortlisted. How to prevent Flooding invited entrants to communicate their innovative initiatives through animation. By applying intelligent land use and good landscape...

Second Annual Building History Lecture at Queens’ College, Cambridge, Saturday 21 March: all welcome

3 March 2015

On Saturday 21 March Dr Anthony Geraghty will deliver the Annual Building History Lecture on ‘Architecture and History at Castle Howard’, preceded by a wine reception. Dr Geraghty, who completed his PhD on Sir Christopher Wren in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at Cambridge, is a Senior Lecturer in the...

From 20 February - 31 May 2015 the Vitra Design Museum will host ‘Architecture of Independence African Modernism’, curated by the Architect Manuel Herz and co-curated by Ingrid Schröder.

3 March 2015

‘ Architecture of Independence ’ explores the experimental and futuristic architecture produced in 1960s Central and Sub-Saharan Africa during the region’s period of newfound independence. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a 700 page book, ‘ AFRICAN MODERNISM The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal...

Students Please Note: the library will be closed on Wednesday 25th February until 2:30pm

19 February 2015

Cambridge News and Cambridge Creative feature articles on students' Percussion Wall

16 February 2015

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The Department of Architecture is delighted to announce that Richard Sennett has been appointed to serve as the Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor for a period of three years (January 2015 - December 2017).

12 February 2015

Professor Sennett is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. His academic work engages with the effects of urban living in the modern world, with a particular focus on the development of cities, the nature of work in modern society and the sociology...

First year students' live projects - Percussion Wall and Urban Spectacular

9 February 2015

Photographs by Philippe Beling - to view more please click here .

New Research Associate Position- Natural Structural Materials

5 February 2015

For more information about the post and how to apply please click here.