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CDRS (Cambridge Design Research Studio) present to the South Downs National Park Design Review Panel

24 November 2015

CDRS members Will Anderson, George Mitzalis and David Jones presented their alternative masterplan for the Phoenix Estate in Lewes, E Sussex, to the South Downs National Park Design Review Panel earlier this week. Will, George and David are Lewes Phoenix Rising's design team, LPR is a community development company set up...

Book entitled 'African Modernism: Architecture and Independence' co-edited by Ingrid Schroeder wins the gold medal for the best art book of 2015 at the "Festival International du Livre d’Art et du Film" (FILAF)

16 November 2015

"African Modernism - Architecture of Independence" was published in conjunction with an exhibition on the same topic that opened at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery. The book focuses on the architecture that was built during the 1960s and 70s in the context of the independence of the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The...

Research group led by Cambridge Architecture Academic wins major new grant collaborating with Chinese Universities

9 November 2015

During the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, a major new projects led by Professor Alan Short of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge was announced as one of four new initiatives using collaboration between Chinese and UK Universities to explore the problems of carbon-use within cities. The...

Design Research in Alternative Contexts: Seminar and Exhibitions at the Royal Institute of British Architects 6 November 2015

4 November 2015

Convened by The University of Cambridge and Nanjing University Research Centre on Architecture and Urbanism

Cambridge University receives £4.1 million research grant for 'MAGIC – Managing Air for Green Inner Cities' project to investigate how to eradicate air pollution and 'heat island' effect in cities by 2050

29 October 2015

Cambridge University has received a £4.1 million research grant to investigate the challenge of "how to develop cities with no air pollution and no heat island effect by 2050?". The grant is part of a wider £21 million investment scheme from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The scheme, which aims to...

Three of the finalists from the Festival of Ideas FOI 'Ideas in Focus'- take a photograph of you research- competition are from the Department of Architecture

8 October 2015

Ideas in Focus was a photography competition that asked students and researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences for a photograph that illustrates their research. You can see these photographs displayed on bus shelter boards throughout Cambridge during October. The selected students and researchers are: Thomas...

Apply now for your Student National Art Pass

29 September 2015

As part of our partnership with the Art Fund, we're please to offer all Architecture students a FREE Student National Art Pass - a 12 month passport to art in the UK that gets you 50% off major exhibitions at Tate, British Museum and V&A, Plus FREE entry in to 230 charging museums and galleries across the UK. APPLY NOW...

MPhil student on BBC radio discussing what Britain is like from the perspective of an African student

28 September 2015

Mauricia Nambatya a civil engineer from Uganda, studying an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development is featured in a documentary exploring what Britain is like through African eyes, broadcast by BBC Radio 4. "You feel that sense of freedom here to say whatever you want to say" Mauricia Nambatya MPhil student in...

Cambridge TV interviews the Natural Materials and Structures group

14 September 2015

The group, together with UN-Habitat, have designed a Community Centre through participatory design in Mathare, one of the biggest and oldest slums of Nairobi. The completed design of 26x16m is made out of gabions, bamboo and timber.The ground floor is composed by a hall, a clinic, a patio and toilets. The first floor by a...

OPENING SOON - Common Enemies, an exhibition of work from Julika Gittner.

12 August 2015

22 August – 20 September Thurs – Sun, 12–6pm Opening 21 August, 6–9pm Flat Time House 210 Bellenden Road London SE15 4BW info@flattimeho.org.uk www.flattimeho.org.uk Photo: Oliver Brenner Common Enemie s is an exhibition of work from Julika Gittner’s year-long Incidental Person residency with Flat Time House and Southwark...