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Dr Carolina Vasilikou is co-organising, in collaboration with the University of Plymouth, an active workshop entitled On the Sea Edge: Creative Approaches to Marine and Coastal Futures, for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2025

29 August 2025

How can we think differently and creatively about the stories and encounters with marine spaces as places, landscapes and environments? Through the many theoretical and critical approaches to this topic, we seek to explore the potential creative and experimental methodologies. In this workshop we use the term ‘sea edge’ to...

Assistant Professor’s Film Selected for Prestigious Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival

27 August 2025

We are proud to announce that Possible Landscapes , a film co-produced by Assistant Professor Dr Tao DuFour, has been officially selected for screening at the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival this September. Chosen from an impressive pool of 2,278 submissions, Possible Landscapes explores themes of environment...

Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture, 2025

26 August 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 cohort of Sutton Trust Summer School students! This year’s summer school took eighteen students to the Paradise Nature Reserve in Cambridge to design a new bridge. Proposals ranged from high-tech modular schemes to romantically crafted designs, each presenting a convincing structural rationale...

The department congratulates Tong Chen for publishing her MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS) research in Machine Learning: Earth journal by IOP Press

30 July 2025

Tong Chen is supervised by Dr Ramit Debnath (Assistant Professor and MAUS Director), in this research they asked the hard question: Is AI ready to design low-carbon cities? Read more here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/3049-4753/adde60

Former Department Lecturer Lorna McNeur's Architectural Model Acquired by MoMA

28 July 2025

We are delighted to share that a pedagogical model by former lecturer and Emeritus Fellow, Lorna McNeur,has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for its permanent collection. The model, created in 1976 during Lorna’s first year of architectural study at The Cooper Union, is her interpretation of the...

We are delighted to announce an exhibition about Chilean architect José Cruz Ovalle to be held in King’s College Chapel between 1st and 28 September 2025

23 July 2025

Felipe Hernández, Director of the M.Phil in Architecture and Urban Studies has organised an exhibition of the work of Chilean Architect José Cruz Ovalle. This is an exceptional opportunity to discover the work of a remarkable Latin American architect. The exhibition is to be held in the Chapel at King's College Cambridge...

In Memoriam - Professor Andrew Saint

21 July 2025

The Faculty is sad to report that Andrew Saint passed away peacefully on Wednesday 16 July after a long fight with illness. Andrew was appointed as a Professor in the Department in 1995, teaching architectural history. He had already a published Richard Norman Shaw (1976); Image of an Architect (1983); T owards a Social...

Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth Shortlisted for Book Prizes

17 July 2025

The Department of Architecture is delighted to share that Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth has been shortlisted for several book awards for Pistols in St Paul’s : Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century: The book has been shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/...

Architecture Alum Christie Swallow Featured in New Design Museum Exhibition

14 July 2025

We are proud to share that Christie Swallow (Architecture, 2020) has been selected as one of the featured residents in the Design Museum’s 2024/25 Design Researchers in Residence programme , culminating in the exhibition Artificial , open from 17 June to 21 September 2025 . Swallow, who recently completed a residency with...

New Research Paper: Investigating Visual Stress Within Family and Domestic Violence Refuges in Australia

23 June 2025

Heather Mitcheltree, Cleo Valentine, Ian Hosking, Koen Steemers, Minna Sunikka-Blank and Arnold Wilkins have published a recent journal artice on visual stress within family and domestic violence refuges in Australia. This study introducing a new approach to trauma-informed design and examines how visual elements in family...