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Professor Flora Samuel will be giving a talk on 'Building an Inclusive and Participatory Planning System' at Lucy Cavendish College from 6pm on Thursday March 20

6 March 2025

You are warmly invited to a thought-provoking talk by Flora Samuel , Professor of Architecture and Head of Department at the University of Cambridge. The discussion will focus on a key topic at present: "Building an Inclusive and Participatory Planning System." There will also be an opportunity for Q&A. Date: Thursday...

The Cambridge Room, a consultation space for the region, is opening in the Grafton Centre on 4 March 2025

27 February 2025

On a good day 3% of people will comment on planning proposals in their area meaning that vital decisions are being made about our places without the input of 97% of the population. Planning engagement tends to be very technical and dry. Often communities get fed up with being asked what they want only to discover that...

The Department will be hosting a careers afternoon organised by The Cambridge Association of Architects and Arcsoc on Wednesday February 26 from 4pm

26 February 2025

The Department is extremely grateful to the CAA for their help in organising the careers afternoon for our students. The contributions will be from: 1) David Adams from Graham Handley Architects 2) Alex Baker from Allies & Morrison 3) Kathryn Fisher from LDA 4) Alice from Mole Architects 5) Simon Redman from Cowper...

The Department is thrilled to be ranked 2nd in the World University Rankings by Subject 2025

20 February 2025

For further information visit: https://shorturl.at/tdoR0

Dr Carolina Vasilikou has been invited as expert reviewer for a second consecutive year to the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas)

20 February 2025

The Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development is responsible for four national research programmes: Climate, Sustainable Spatial Planning, Food and Oceans and Water. Dr Vasilikou is part of Panel D: Explore, which focuses on research for a sustainable society within the fields of environment, spatial planning...

Cambridge Discussions About Architectures in Other Places

28 January 2025

There will be three events happening in Cambridge in February as part of the 'Cambridge Discussions About Architectures in Other Places' series in collaboration with the Maestria en Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad del Valle, Cali - Colombia. Monday 10th February 2025 Lecture Room 1, Department of Architecture 17...

This year, Homerton College has welcomed Studio 1 to consult and propose new ideas for a 21st century collegiate learning environment

24 January 2025

At the ’Tuesday Conversation’ on 28th January in the College (part of the #Changemakers programme) these final year architecture students will generously present their masterplan ideas back to Homerton’s staff, students and fellows. This will inform the students’ building and retrofit projects to come - and might even...

The Department congratulates alumnus Peter Clegg on being awarded an OBE for ‘services to architecture’ in the New Year Honours 2025

21 January 2025

Peter Clegg is a founding partner of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS). For more information visit: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/architect-peter-clegg-awarded-an-obe-in-new-year-honours https://fcbstudios.com/practice/people/peter-clegg-obe/

Scroope 33: Disenclosure! has been published

14 January 2025

The contributors to the 33rd issue of Scroope take the decolonial conception of disenclosure as a provocation to be articulated, contested, and extended through architectural thinking. Whether through critical explorations of maritime space, design praxes, humanitarian architecture, or labour in the profession, the...

Dr Fiona Smyth was on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week on Monday 16 December discussing the relationship between building design and music

13 December 2024

The episode of Start the Week will focus on 'Acoustics, music and architecture' during which Dr Smyth was interviewed as an architectural acoustic historian, and as a result of her new book published in Sept 2024: ‘Pistols in St Paul's: Science, music, and architecture in the twentieth century’ – see: https://...