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The Department is delighted to welcome Tina Saaby as our new Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor in Sustainable Urban Design for 2025–2026

6 October 2025

Tina Saaby is a distinguished architect and urban planner known for her leadership in shaping sustainable and healthy cities for people. A graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, she served as the City Architect of Copenhagen from 2010 to 2019 and as the City Architect of Gladsaxe since 2020 to 2023, and from...

Patrick Smith wins the 2025 Mavis Batey Essay Prize from The Gardens Trust

3 October 2025

Patrick Smith who graduated in 2025 has won the 2025 Mavis Batey Essay Prize from The Gardens Trust, the most prestigious essay prize in the discipline. Patrick says: I am honoured to receive this prize, especially given Batey’s tireless commitment to the preservation of parks and gardens. The subject of my essay – John...

The Public Map Platform project led by Professor Flora Samuel is featured on the cover of The Planner Magazine

1 October 2025

The Planner Magazine goes out to RTPI planners across the globe. The Public Map Platform project starts phase 2 today with £3.1million of funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Read the issue here: https://issuu.com/theplanner/docs/the_planner_sept_oct_2025 Read more about the Public Map Platform here...

The Work of Architecture Alum Manon Awst to be featured in an exhibition at Swansea College of Art

24 September 2025

The exhibition is entitled Corsio: Sink and Stick in a Bog and will take place from 22 October – 22 November 2025. Manon Awst’s CORSIO is a culmination of four years’ sculptural research on Welsh peatland. The verb corsio is formed from the Welsh word for bog – cors – meaning to sink and stick in a bog. This is an apt...

A team led by Professor Flora Samuel has been awarded a further Green Transition Ecosystem grant by the AHRC to create a Public Map Platform to chart the green transition on the Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn

15 September 2025

The Department congratulates Professor Samuel and her team on this achievement. Read an article about the Public Map Platform and the funding award on the University of Cambridge Research News here: Public Map Platform supporting green transition secures major funding | University of Cambridge

Marie-José Van Hee’s Architecture in Dialogue with Aalto

4 September 2025

The Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki is hosting an online event celebrating the architecture of Marie-José Van Hee, who was announced as the 15 th recipient of the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal in 2024 . The panel discussion, on Tuesday 9 th September at 2.30 British time, will bring together architect Sam De...

Professor Flora Samuel has been interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s 'Building Soul' featuring Thomas Heatherwick

3 September 2025

The episode is entitled 'Making 'Making' Great Again'. Listen to the full episode here: Building Soul: with Thomas Heatherwick Series 2

Dr Carolina Vasilikou is co-organising, in collaboration with the University of Plymouth, an active workshop entitled On the Sea Edge: Creative Approaches to Marine and Coastal Futures, for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2025

29 August 2025

How can we think differently and creatively about the stories and encounters with marine spaces as places, landscapes and environments? Through the many theoretical and critical approaches to this topic, we seek to explore the potential creative and experimental methodologies. In this workshop we use the term ‘sea edge’ to...

Assistant Professor’s Film Selected for Prestigious Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival

27 August 2025

We are proud to announce that Possible Landscapes , a film co-produced by Assistant Professor Dr Tao DuFour, has been officially selected for screening at the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival this September. Chosen from an impressive pool of 2,278 submissions, Possible Landscapes explores themes of environment...

Sutton Trust Summer School in Architecture, 2025

26 August 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 cohort of Sutton Trust Summer School students! This year’s summer school took eighteen students to the Paradise Nature Reserve in Cambridge to design a new bridge. Proposals ranged from high-tech modular schemes to romantically crafted designs, each presenting a convincing structural rationale...