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Congratulations to MArch Design Fellow Conrad Koslowsky on winning the 2023 Stephen Lawrence Prize for his Lighthouse Children's Home project

23 October 2023

The Royal Institute of British Architects has named Lighthouse Children’s Home by Conrad Koslowsky Architects as winner of the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2023. The previously derelict 1920s house in South West London has been transformed into an arts and craft-style six-bedroom care home; the first created by the Lighthouse...

Dove Tales: a new exhibition based on the design-research of Design Fellow Enrico Brondelli di Brondello has opened in London

12 October 2023

The exhibition explores the way we are spatially entangled with other species - focussing on the pigeon. "Few species elicit revulsion like the pigeon, and yet few other species are so intertwined in the places we live. What can the pigeon tell us about how to better co-exist with animals?" Dove Tales is an exhibition by...

The Department congratulates MArch Design Fellow Conrad Koslowsky for being shortlisted for the 2023 Stephen Lawrence Prize with his project Lighthouse Children's Home. The winner will be announced at the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize ceremony

11 October 2023

Conrad Koslowsky designed the building for the Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust and more details about the project can be found here: https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-london-award-winners/2023/lighthouse-childrens-home For more details about the Stephen Lawrence...

We are pleased to welcome Professor Flora Samuel as our new Head of Department

6 October 2023

Professor Flora Samuel’s strength is in connecting ideas and people from different backgrounds and fields – the scholarship of integration and application, making connections across disciplines and sectors, contextualising specialisms in the larger context and making sense of them to non-specialists. Her current work...

On Thursday 16 November from 2-3pm (UK time) the MSt Building History course will be holding an online Open Day

27 September 2023

If you would like to learn more about the course and chat to the Course Director, Dr Adam Menuge, please contact the MSt Building History Course Administrator on: building-history@aha.cam.ac.uk who will add your name to the attendance list and contact you later. The session will cover all aspects of the course including...

Apprentice becomes in-house SKA assessor to a major practice

25 September 2023

Final year apprentice Eleanor Lee, who works at GSSArchitecture in Yorkshire, has been appointed as the SKA Assessor for the practice, having successfully completed her SKA training and assessment modules earlier this year. SKA is the name of the rating tool approved by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for...

Alvar Aalto in Germany: Drawing Modernism: A new exhibition curated by Dr Sofia Singler will take place at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin from 23 September 2023 - 14 January 2024

11 September 2023

As well as being curated by Dr Sofia Singler, an Assistant Professor in the Department, the exhibition fittings have been designed by former Design Fellow Anna Andrich . Alvar Aalto in Germany: Drawing Modernism at the Museum for Architectural Drawing , presented in collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Foundation in Finland...

Public Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

1 September 2023

A team led by Prof Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded one of four new £4.625 million Green Transition Ecosystem grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a Public Map Platform for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of Anglesey/Ynys...

The Middle Hall English House in Bogotá

29 August 2023

Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin spoke at a conference organised by researchers from the Universidad de San Buenaventura, Cali; the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya ETSAB and Kingston University on ‘The Middle Hall English House in Bogotá’ on 11 th August. The conference is accompanied...

The Department's lecturer Dr Irit Katz has been interviewed by BBC News about her work on migrant architecture

8 August 2023

The interview followed Dr Katz publication at The Conversation on the hostile architecture of the UK government’s migrant barge, which was populated on the 7 th of August 2023: https://theconversation.com/performative-cruelty-the-hostile-architecture-of-the-uk-governments-migrant-barge-210300