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Latest Edition of Scroope: Cambridge University Architecture Department For Sale Now

4 February 2014

It celebrates the centenary of the Cambridge University Department of Architecture. Contributors include Peter Eisenman, Sarah Wigglesworth, John Ellis, Sumet Jumsai, John Sergeant, Peter Carolin and Ted Cullinan, amongst others. Special pricing for current students of £10 (30% discount). Buy one, and then get a previous...

Good Deeds, Smallest Evils or Pacts with the Devil?: a series of workshops investigating how ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work is tied up in processes of urban regeneration

9 January 2014

Good deeds… is a series of workshops investigating how ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work is tied up in processes of urban regeneration. Engagement and involvement with regeneration processes, explicit or otherwise, seems an inevitable aspect of creative and cultural work in urban environments today. This series of workshops...

'The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places': a new publication from the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research

16 December 2013

By Wendy Pullan, Maximilian Sternberg, Lefkos Kyriacou, Craig Larkin, Michael Dumper

Second Year Studio 3 visit the Laban in South London

28 November 2013

The purpose of the trip was to gain an invaluable insight into the world of dance education, training and performance. Their brief (part of a year-wide theme of ‘Representation’) is for a Dance Centre to be located on a choice of sites near Kingsland Road in Dalston. The students will design spaces for practice and...

Hays Recruitment 2013 Award: Dan Ladyman

28 November 2013

Dan Ladyman, the Department’s top performing 2013 MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B/ARB/RIBA Part 2) student was delighted to be awarded the Hays Recruitment 2013 Award. Dan’s project looks at the population increase of Beijing (half a million residents per year) and how the political, social...

Good Tidings for Coastal Communities: a research feature on the work of PhD student Ed Barsley

24 October 2013

Flooding from rising sea levels and extreme weather events is a major global issue, and the UK is no exception. According to the Government’s 2012 Climate Change Impact Risk Assessment, flooding is the greatest threat facing the UK today. An innovative design concept by Ed Barsley aims to contend with rising seawater by...

Hans van der Heijden – the new Marshall Visiting Professor

17 October 2013

We are delighted to announce that Hans van der Heijden will be our new Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor in Sustainable Urban Design. Hans is an architect and urbanist from the Netherlands where, having studied at TU Delft and worked for Mecanoo, he founded and is the design director of biq . He is not only an active...

Cambridge Graduates win 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize...again!

27 September 2013

After last year’s RIBA Stirling Prize winning Sainsbury Laboratory, for which Cambridge graduate Gavin Henderson was the director responsible for delivering the new building, more Cambridge graduates win the 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize. Witherford Watson Mann Architects, all three architecture graduates from the Department of...

The ArcSoc Student Exhibition 2013 took place at Testbed 1, Battersea from 9-13th July

2 September 2013

Visit the ArcSoc website for information and photographs from the exhibition. Click here for a review of the Exhibition from the Boidus: Blogs website.

Sutton Trust students attend week-long summer school in the Department

27 August 2013

Students on the Architecture Summer School, aged from 16-17 years and from all parts of the country, experienced different elements of the undergraduate course, including studying in studios to work on project design ideas. Click her e to see examples of the work produced. The Sutton Trust is committed to improving social...