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The IDBE Spring 2014 Newsletter is out now

21 May 2014

The IDBE Spring 2014 Newsletter is available to download here .

Cambridge Design Research Studio Summer School 2014: Urban Emergencies: Emergent Urbanism

6 May 2014

‘Resilient London - Urban Security’

'Building with Bamboo': an interview with Michael Ramage on the Naked Scientist radio show

2 May 2014

Click here for the interview.

'The Image of Venice: Fialetti's View and Sir Henry Wotton': a new book by Deborah Howard and Henrietta McBurney

24 April 2014

The city of Venice holds a special place in the global imagination. This book explores the creation of one of its largest surviving depictions, which has remained almost unknown to the wider public since its creation exactly four centuries ago. Signed and dated 1611, the painting is the work of a notable early seventeenth-...

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

22 April 2014

Workshop 3 Saturday 26 April, 10am-3:00pm Instant ‘Community’ versus Long-term Involvement This session will focus on the significance of time, duration, process and different understandings of ‘community’ for artists’ and architects’ involvement within regeneration agendas. Regeneration is often understood as nominally...

Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment 1994-2014: 20th Anniversary Bursary Competition

9 April 2014

To celebrate 20 years of academic success we are offering a full bursary for tuition fees*, through open competition. The bursary will cover the full tuition fees for the two-year course, for entry in September 2014, currently worth £11,200. Please note that only applicants who meet our standard requirements will be...

MSt Building History’s first Annual Lecture and Reunion Weekend

28 March 2014

On Saturday 1 March past and present students of the MSt in Building History gathered in the Faculty for a weekend of varied edification and entertainment. At the centre of the weekend’s events was the inaugural Building History Annual Lecture. Maurice Howard, Professor of History of Art at the University of Sussex...

Vertical Urban Industry: MAUD student Stuart Beattie is commended in Skyscraper Competition

27 March 2014

Stuart's entry from the 4th year vertical factory project was recognised out of 525 submissions from 43 countries. In the past few decades the world economy has seen a global shift of industry and manufacturing eastwards to the emerging markets of China and India purely for economic efficiency and not innovation. The rate...

Grant to fund research into natural and sustainable building materials

18 March 2014

The University of Cambridge has received a £1.75 million Research Programme Grant from the Leverhulme Trust on the theme of Natural Material Innovation. The funding of £1.75 million over the next five years will enable exploration and development of the potential for natural materials in the built environment. A...

An article by Julika Gittner relating to her 'Good deeds...' workshop run in conjunction with the CDRS is featured in The Architectural Review

13 March 2014

The article, entitled "Regeneration: Good Deeds, Smallest Evils or Pacts with the Devil?" can be read in full here .