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The Architecture Graduate Symposium 2014: call for abstracts

24 February 2014

We invite submission of abstracts for either oral or poster presentations from Department of Architecture graduate students on the research they are conducting. Click here for the abstracts submission form. Submissions on all research topics are welcome. The Graduate Symposium will be held Monday April 28th 10:00-17:00 in...

Michael Ramage and his firm 'Light Earth Designs' design new offices in Chicago, USA

13 February 2014

The client wanted the architecture of their offices to highlight that they think and work differently. As much as possible, they were to draw on nature. They limited the material palette, and primarily worked with timber, earth masonry, and steel. The timber is beetle-damaged wood that is otherwise a waste product (or...

New issue of Twentieth Century Architecture: Oxford and Cambridge

10 February 2014

The new issue of the Twentieth Century Society's refereed journal, Twentieth Century Architecture, has a special focus on Oxford and Cambridge. Guest edited by PhD student Otto Saumarez Smith with leading historians Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, the volume includes contributions by a number of current and former Faculty...

Latest Edition of Scroope: Cambridge University Architecture Department For Sale Now

4 February 2014

It celebrates the centenary of the Cambridge University Department of Architecture. Contributors include Peter Eisenman, Sarah Wigglesworth, John Ellis, Sumet Jumsai, John Sergeant, Peter Carolin and Ted Cullinan, amongst others. Special pricing for current students of £10 (30% discount). Buy one, and then get a previous...

Conflict in Cities special issue of Space and Polity

20 January 2014

A CinC special issue of Space and Polity 17(3) has just been launched on the subject of Religion, violence and cities: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cspp20/17/3#.UqcgKHb-XyA It includes: An introduction by our Belfast colleagues Liam O’Dowd and Milena McKnight http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13562576.2013...

Good Deeds, Smallest Evils or Pacts with the Devil?: a series of workshops investigating how ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work is tied up in processes of urban regeneration

9 January 2014

Good deeds… is a series of workshops investigating how ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work is tied up in processes of urban regeneration. Engagement and involvement with regeneration processes, explicit or otherwise, seems an inevitable aspect of creative and cultural work in urban environments today. This series of workshops...

On Thursday 9th January 2014 Professor Sir David King will give a keynote address on the topic of The Future of Developing Cities which will be open to the public

7 January 2014

This is part the University of Cambridge’s EcoHouse Initiative which is organising a one day conference to bring together academics and practitioners working broadly in the field of housing rapidly growing urban populations. The EcoHouse Initiative is a multidisciplinary program that aims to facilitate sustainable growth...

'The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places': a new publication from the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research

16 December 2013

By Wendy Pullan, Maximilian Sternberg, Lefkos Kyriacou, Craig Larkin, Michael Dumper

First ever Building History graduates

12 December 2013

On 30 November 2013 the first graduates of the MSt in Building History took their degrees, becoming, we believe, the first ever Building History graduates in the UK. If this suggestion sounds surprising, the explanation lies in the name. ‘Building History’ combines approaches to the historic built environment drawn from a...

Department of Architecture collaboration instrumental in securing part of a £5.6 billion trade deal with China

5 December 2013

The collaboration between MIT, UBC and Cambridge Architectural Research and the Department of Architecture will contribute to the knowledge base and use of engineered bamboo. Structural Bamboo Products (SBP) will have lower operating energy use and so emit lower levels of carbon throughout their life cycles. The SBP and...