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The Department welcomes new Visiting Professor Harbinder Singh Birdi

8 December 2023

Having lectured and taught at the University for several years, Harbinder will now be advising and teaching on the new Design Tripos degree (MDes ) course. Harbinder is an Architect and Creative Director of Birdi & Partners, a London based consultancy that provides design advisory services to government bodies...

Dr. Matteo Zallio, with a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and University of Campania, published a recent article in the renowned Strategic Design Research Journal

6 December 2023

The article illustrates an exploratory framework to deliver human-environment interactions by arguing that the design of our surroundings significantly shapes human behavior and relationships. As technology integrates into spaces, it brings both benefits and challenges. This article delves into the intersection of learning...

"Breaking Barriers: Advancing Inclusive Architectural Design": Dr. Matteo Zallio's study recently published in the Architectural Science Review journal delves into challenges hindering Inclusive Design (ID) integration in architecture

16 November 2023

The survey results expose gaps in client awareness and tools for ID. Key challenges include project budgets and limited client understanding. The study underscores the practitioner's role as an advocate, highlighting a need for continuous education. With a focus on developing post-occupancy evaluation tools, the research...

Timothy Brittain-Catlin’s book 'Edwin Rickards' is published on November 15 by Liverpool University Press in association with the Victorian Society and Historic England

15 November 2023

The book tells the unusual story of this very charismatic Edwardian baroque architect whose buildings were described by Sir John Summerson as ‘fizzing like champagne’. Rickards won the competition to design Cardiff City Hall in 1897, in partnership with Henry Vaughan Lanchester and James Stewart, when he was 25. His few...

The Department congratulates MArch student Ieva Davulyte on being awarded a special mention for the AIAUK Noel Hill Award for the project 'Shanghai in Vilnius'

10 November 2023

The award is annually to a Part 2 student that has undertaken outstanding and original research during their studies. The judges commended Ieva Davulyte's work, saying that the project's 'intention to understand existing communities, associated method of research, and investigation into the architect's role in maintenance...

Urban Room Project Research Associate Ruchit Purohit has participated in a workshop held by ‘Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination’ with a group of young residents of Cambridge aged 11-25 on ‘what makes a place?’

9 November 2023

Find out more here: http://www.cambridgecandi.org.uk/news/what-makes-place-0

The Department would like to congratulate MArch student Melis Gurdal, on winning the AIAUK Noel Hill Award for the project 'The Water Caravanserais of Anatolia'

6 November 2023

Presented annually to a Part 2 student that has undertaken outstanding and original research during their studies. The award is not limited by topic or location and offers £3,000 towards the continuation of independent research beyond the end of the academic year. The judges said of Melis Gurdal's project: "The Water...

'Mother Nature knows best when it comes to climate solutions, social media users say': new Research feature on the work of Assistant Professor and Cambridge Zero Fellow Dr Ramit Debnath

6 November 2023

"Social media provides an opportunity to tap into the ocean of thoughts and feelings people are sharing in public conversations about emerging technologies. Governments and global organisations need to consider how the voting public will engage with proposed solutions of climate action" said co-author and Assistant...

First of its kind AI-model developed by the Department's Dr Ronita Bardhan and researcher Maoran Sun can help policymakers efficiently identify and prioritize houses for retrofitting and other decarbonizing measures is featured in BBC News

3 November 2023

‘Hard-to-decarbonize’ (HtD) houses are responsible for over a quarter of all direct housing emissions – a major obstacle to achieving net zero – but are rarely identified or targeted for improvement. Now a new ‘deep learning’ model trained by researchers from Cambridge University’s Department of Architecture promises to...

The Department of Architecture congratulates Professor Michael Ramage and Associate Professor Dr Darshil Shah on being named in the top 2% of scientists in 2023 for materials and building and construction

2 November 2023

This list is released every year by the Stanford University and Elsevier. Find out more here: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6