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Assistant Prof. Dr. Michal Gath-Morad awarded a £770,000 SNF-Funded EVIDENT Project (Co-PI) to Investigate How Emergency Department Design Impacts Healthcare Workers' Face-to-Face Communication and Patient Care

30 September 2024

mgm_grant_carousel.jpg Faculty member, Dr. Gath-Morad has been awarded an SNF grant (£770,000) as a Co-PI, alongside Christoph Hölscher (ETH Zurich) and Ruth Conroy Dalton (Northumbria University), for the EVIDENT project, which investigates how Emergency Department (ED) design influences healthcare workers' face-to-face (...

MAUD Alumna Patricia Mato-Mora publishes paper in ARENA Journal of Architectural Research

30 September 2024

MAUD Alumna and newly-appointed Cambridge Design Teaching Fellow Patricia Mato-Mora has been published in the ARENA Journal of Architectural Research (AJAR), edited by Dr Murray Fraser and Dr Steve Parnell. AJAR is an online Open Access peer-reviewed journal for all kinds of design research and scholarly research within...

Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century: a new book by Dr Fiona Smyth is out now

26 September 2024

The book is a ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain. On a winter’s night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul’s Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scientific demonstration of new techniques in acoustic...

Irit Katz, the Academic Director of the newly established Hannah Arendt Consortium, invites all to participate in the launch event Hannah Arendt and Common Worldbuilding in a New Age of Extremes

24 September 2024

Hannah Arendt and Common Worldbuilding in a New Age of Extremes Consortium Launch Event Keynote by Bonnie Honig 26-27 September 2024 at the University of Cambridge Join us for a two-day event for the launch of the Hannah Arendt Consortium on Crises and Political Transformation . The consortium is dedicated to confronting...

Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture, 2024

4 September 2024

The Department would like to thank and congratulate all students who took part in this year’s Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture. In just a week, students learned basic drawing and modelling techniques, and designed a project of their own. The brief this year asked students to devise a new folly for Hobson’s...

Possible Landscapes: Debut Screening of new film by Assistant Professor Dr Tao Dufour will take place at Cornell University on September 25th 2024

3 September 2024

The film is a collaboration between a documentary filmmaker, Kanan Arunasalam and two professors, Tao DuFour (Architecture) a spatial theorist and Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature) a postcolonial comparatist and scholar of Caribbean thought, Possible Landscapes is the outcome of the team research project, “Possible...

The Department congratulates Julia Cabanas, Alfred Yeung, Laxmi Andrews and Chloe Shang on being named in the lastest cohort of New Architecture Writers

31 July 2024

We are very delighted to report that four of the nine members of the New Architecture Writers cohort 2024 come from our Department. New Architecture Writers is a free programme for emerging design writers, developing the journalistic skill, editorial connections and critical voice of its participants. N.A.W. focuses on...

'Hello, House' at Kettle's Yard ran from the 4th to the 7th of July - a body of work presented by ARCSOC, the University of Cambridge Architecture Society

25 July 2024

The opening night saw over 400 guests and was a massive celebration of all the students of this Department! ARCSOC is the University of Cambridge Architecture Society. With over two hundred student members, and over fifty committee members, ARCSOC is a group of young creatives starting their careers as designers...

On the 18th July Dr Sofia Singler, Dr Darshil Shah and a current undergradute student will be running an Admissions Clinic for Architecture and Design for prospective applicants.

12 July 2024

The event takes place from 4-5pm on Zoom. For more information visit: https://undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/architecture-and-design-st-johns-subject-admissions-clinic#:~:text=These%20Subject%20Admissions%20Clinics%20are,undergraduate%20student%20in%20the%20subject… .

On the 16th July Dr Darshil Shah will be engaging with Teachers and Mentors at the “Teachers and Advisers’ Conference 2024” to present the new Design course

12 July 2024

The event will take pace from 1:35pm at St John’s College, Cambridge. For more information visit: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/teachers/teachers-and-advisers-conference