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Participatory design workshop of our Year 2 students with the Cambridge Association of Architects and Chesterton College's secondary school children, as part of the course 'Acting through Architecture'

11 October 2022

The workshop provided an opportunity for students to collaborate with the CAA and Chesterton pupils, a process in which they have learned, through a hands-on experience, possible ways to engage others in a design activity that they have prepared. The workshop provided a first- time experience of the challenges and...

Professor Emily So and Janette Kim from the California College of Art will be hosting two board game sessions to explore how networks of sociability and care can adapt to climate change and other disasters at the Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival

11 October 2022

The festival takes place from 14-16 th October. For more details and to register to play a round of “Bartertown”, do visit: https://climatechangefestival.zero.cam.ac.uk/events/empowering-climate-action-through-game-play-0

Yousuf Khalil wins AJ Student Prize 2022

10 October 2022

The winners of the AJ student prize were announced at the offices of Sheppard Robson architects on 7 October. We are delighted that MAUD student Yousuf Khalili won the postgraduate category for his project, Urban Canopies which envisaged a series of interventions for Pakistan’s railway communities in Lahore to facilitate a...

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