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Second Year Students Visit Porto on Design Trip

12 December 2012

At the start of the Christmas vacation, the second year students were given the opportunity to visit Porto in Portugal, along with the six design tutors. As well as the historic river front and port houses, Porto has a strong contemporary architecture scene, including a number of works by local architects Alvaro Siza and...

Hays Award for Best Student - MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B) won by Tom Powell

21 November 2012

Friday 16 November 2012 Thomas Powell, a former graduate student of the Department of Architecture, received an award from Hays plc for Best Student - MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture (Option B). Tom gave a presentation on his project which focuses on agricultural change and development in England’s smaller...

100 years of Research and Practice

8 November 2012

The ‘100 Years: Research and Practice’ Symposium held at the Gillespie Centre in Clare College on the 17 th September 2012 was organised to celebrate the Department of Architecture’s unique contribution to architectural research and its relationship with architectural practice on the occasion of the centenary of the school...

vPPR (former students Tatiana von Preussen, Catherine Pease and Jessica Reynolds) have been nominated for Young Architect of the Year Award 2012

1 November 2012

vPPR is one of five architects shortlisted for Autodesk YAYA 2012, together with Coffey Architects, Bell Phillips Architects, 00:/, Hayhurst & Co. The results will be announced on 5th December. The three directors of vPPR met at Cambridge during their undergraduate architecture degree in matriculating year 2000...

Symposium on Applied Urban Modelling 2013: Productive and Sustainable City Regions

25 October 2012

Please save the date: 26-28 June 2013 The aim of AUM2013 is to report and review new model applications in assessing policy options in an economically and financially uncertain world. We would like to focus on flexible and adaptable urban development that demands system-level thinking. The symposium welcomes all model...

MPhil (RIBA Part 2) course graduate awarded RIBA Boyd Auger scholarship.

23 October 2012

Congratulations to Jo Ashbridge, a MPhil (RIBA Part 2) course graduate from the Department for being awarded this year's RIBA Boyd Auger scholarship. Her project is called 'The Role of Earth Architecture and Construction within a Disaster Risk Reduction Framework for Areas at Risk of Flooding Across Bangladesh'. For...

Part II Student Wins RIBA

22 October 2012

Congratulations to Jo Ashbridge, a Part 2 graduate from the Department for being awarded this year's " RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship" . Her project is called 'The Role of Earth Architecture and Construction within a Disaster Risk Reduction Framework for Areas at Risk of Flooding Across Bangladesh'. See the item on RIBA's...

Architects' Journal sees the light and picks book of the month for positive review

18 August 2012

"For anyone interested in daylight, this is a thoughtful and absorbing book. Examining light as a sublime art form, Mary Ann Steane ’s The Architecture of Light explores architectural attitudes and discourse surrounding daylight since the widespread availability of artificial lighting". (Extract from The Architects'...

100 for the 100th

16 July 2012

100 alumni attended a lunch at Queens' College to celebrate the centenary of the Department.

Architecture minister John Penrose has listed four post-war houses in Cambridge that were designed by architects from this department

16 July 2012

The four houses, all listed at grade II, are 39 New Road, Barton, designed by Barry Gasson and John Meunier in 1965; 214 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, designed by Marcial Echenique in 1971; and 72 and 74 Water Lane, Histon, designed by David Thurlow in 1972. These listings provide a lasting testament to the quality and...