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The Faculty is delighted to welcome Yasmeen Lari as the Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor in Sustainable Design for 2022/2023.

5 October 2022

Yasmeen Lari was the first female architect in Pakistan and winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2020. She trained as an architect in the UK and opened her practice in Pakistan at the age of 23, over the next 40 years firmly establishing herself as one the regions leading design architects with a series of startling brutalist...

Scroope 32 call for abstracts: 'The Quotidian and the Enchanted'

30 August 2022

Scroope 32 examines the quotidian and the enchanted - the ways in which identity is constructed, projected, and framed, and the pathways by which we navigate a world that is often disorienting and alienating. We are seeking submissions that explore and challenge the forms, spaces, environments, landscapes, and constructs...

The Department would like to congratulate Muyiwa Oki on being appointed President of the RIBA

3 August 2022

For more information on Muyiwa Oki's election visit: https://riba.msgfocus.com/q/1HaTf1qOcOti3ukrMvhpH/wv

The ArcSoc Student Show 2022 has been reviewed in the Architect's Journal

28 July 2022

student-show_index_cambridge-1600x1067.jpg Image credit: ARCSOC The End of Year Exhibition took place at the Barge House, Oxo Tower, London from the 7-10th July. Read the full review by Jon Astbury here: ‘Assessing post-Covid landscapes’: Cambridge University Student Show 2022 (architectsjournal.co.uk)

UNFOLD website of Decolonising Architecture in Cambridge was launched at the 2022 Arcsoc Summer Show

11 July 2022

All talks and other initiatives are now online to what will be a continuous work in progress and an ongoing collaboration of students and academics in the Department. Please visit: https://www.decolonise.space/

MAUD Alumna Patricia Mato-Mora invited speaker at Material Matters: Clay

4 July 2022

MAUD Alumna Patricia Mato-Mora was invited as a speaker at Watts Gallery as part of the Material Matters series to discuss her practice and in particular her work with clay. Material Matters is an initiative through which members of the Royal Society of Sculptors members share their knowledge and skillset. For this new...

'The Sun Never Knew How Great it is Until it Struck the Side of a building' a Daylight Talk by the renowned architectural professor Dean Hawkes is now available to watch on YouTube

20 June 2022

View the talk here: https://youtu.be/uVrwH4s8CHY

The final episode of the Science, Policy and Climate Resilience podcast with Prof. Emily So is out now

20 June 2022

For the new 4-part mini-series - Science, Policy and Climate Resilience - Host Rob Doubleday is joined by new Co-Host Emily So, Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Cambridge. Season 6 is focusing on the race to resilience global climate campaign and how to accelerate climate priorities after COP26. In the...

The Department would like to congratulate PhD student Ana Gatoo on winning one of the 12 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Awards for outstanding research and potential

13 June 2022

Ana is a PhD student with the Centre for Natural Material Innovation and won the award for her research into digital timber technologies. For more information visit: https://www.csar.org.uk/student-awards/2022/

The first episode of a new podcast series co-hosted by Dr Emily So with Dr Rob Doubleday of the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) is out now

23 May 2022

The episode, entitled ' Science, Policy & Climate Resilience: COP26', is available here: https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/Research-Policy-Engagement/science-and-policy-podcast/science-policy-and-climate-resilience/