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The Department congratulates MArch Design Fellow Conrad Koslowsky for being shortlisted for the 2023 Stephen Lawrence Prize with his project Lighthouse Children's Home. The winner will be announced at the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize ceremony

11 October 2023

Conrad Koslowsky designed the building for the Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust and more details about the project can be found here: https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-london-award-winners/2023/lighthouse-childrens-home For more details about the Stephen Lawrence...

We are pleased to welcome Professor Flora Samuel as our new Head of Department

6 October 2023

Professor Flora Samuel’s strength is in connecting ideas and people from different backgrounds and fields – the scholarship of integration and application, making connections across disciplines and sectors, contextualising specialisms in the larger context and making sense of them to non-specialists. Her current work...

Apprentice becomes in-house SKA assessor to a major practice

25 September 2023

Final year apprentice Eleanor Lee, who works at GSSArchitecture in Yorkshire, has been appointed as the SKA Assessor for the practice, having successfully completed her SKA training and assessment modules earlier this year. SKA is the name of the rating tool approved by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for...

Alvar Aalto in Germany: Drawing Modernism: A new exhibition curated by Dr Sofia Singler will take place at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin from 23 September 2023 - 14 January 2024

11 September 2023

As well as being curated by Dr Sofia Singler, an Assistant Professor in the Department, the exhibition fittings have been designed by former Design Fellow Anna Andrich . Alvar Aalto in Germany: Drawing Modernism at the Museum for Architectural Drawing , presented in collaboration with the Alvar Aalto Foundation in Finland...

Public Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

1 September 2023

A team led by Prof Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded one of four new £4.625 million Green Transition Ecosystem grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a Public Map Platform for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of Anglesey/Ynys...

The Middle Hall English House in Bogotá

29 August 2023

Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin spoke at a conference organised by researchers from the Universidad de San Buenaventura, Cali; the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya ETSAB and Kingston University on ‘The Middle Hall English House in Bogotá’ on 11 th August. The conference is accompanied...

The Department's lecturer Dr Irit Katz has been interviewed by BBC News about her work on migrant architecture

8 August 2023

The interview followed Dr Katz publication at The Conversation on the hostile architecture of the UK government’s migrant barge, which was populated on the 7 th of August 2023: https://theconversation.com/performative-cruelty-the-hostile-architecture-of-the-uk-governments-migrant-barge-210300

The first cohort of 16 aspiring architects enrolled in the University of Cambridge’s pioneering postgraduate architecture apprenticeship programme have just been awarded a Master of Studies (MSt) in Architecture

17 July 2023

The high-flying trainees passed the first stage of the apprenticeship with flying colours and are now continuing towards their End Point Assessment – paving the way towards Part III of their training early next year before they go on to qualify as architects. The apprentices’ talents have not gone unnoticed, with two of...

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Ronita Bardhan on being being named an EPSRC - Women's Engineering Society ambassador for women in engineering

27 June 2023

Dr Bardhan was awarded for her work on climate, gender and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Read more about the award here: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/epsrc-wes-ambassadors-for-women-in-engineering/

Annual Alumni Celebration of Architecture

26 June 2023

Following the success of the event last year, we wish to do the same this year and invite you back to the Department of Architecture to share your memories about the Department. Open to: Alumni and guests Friends and supporters Location: The Department of Architecture, 5 Scroope Terrace, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2...