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Professor Flora Samuel will be talking at Sustainable Futures: Delivering a Regional Sustainability Vision at Anglia Ruskin University on 17 June

9 June 2025

The event is a cross-sectoral investigation into building a sustainable future for the region. To register for the event visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainable-futures-delivering-a-regional-sustainability-vision-tickets-1273861446879

Associate Professor Irit Katz has published 'Lethal humanitarianism: why violence at Gaza aid centres should not come as a surprise' in The Conversation

4 June 2025

Read the full article here: https://theconversation.com/lethal-humanitarianism-why-violence-at-gaza-aid-centres-should-not-come-as-a-surprise-257908?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

The department is delighted to announce this year's ArcSoc Student Exhibiton ‘Traces of Making’ will be open from Thursday 26th June - Sunday 29th June 2025

4 June 2025

The exhibition will extend beyond Kettle’s Yard, with installations also taking place in St Peter’s Church and the Museum of Cambridge, all located within close walking distance of one another. It will celebrate work by undergraduate and postgraduate Architecture and Design students of the Department of Architecture. The...

Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth Shortlisted for Royal Historical Society Book Prize

29 May 2025

The Department of Architecture is delighted to share that Assistant Professor Fiona Smyth has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s (RHS) prestigious First Book Prize for Early Career Historians. Her monograph, Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century , is one of only...

Cambridge Architecture Alumni recognised in AJ100 New Talent Shortlist

29 May 2025

We are delighted to congratulate Alfred Yeung (MAUD 2018–2020) on being shortlisted as a 2025 New Architect in the prestigious AJ100 New Talent awards. The shortlist recognises emerging voices in architecture making an impact through both design and thought leadership. Alfred’s professional journey has continued to evolve...

The Department's Professor Emily So is one of the judges for the 2025 Institution of Civil Engineers East of England Merit Awards

16 May 2025

The Awards celebrate the work of professionals engaged in civil engineering infrastructure and the built environment in East of England. You can find more information: https://www.ice.org.uk/about-us/ice-near-you/uk/ice-east-of-england/awards

Dr Fiona Smyth elected to Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

16 May 2025

Dr Fiona Smyth has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). Founded in 1868, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) is the UK’s foremost society working for historians and history.Fellowship is awarded to scholars who have made an original and significant contribution to historical scholarship through their...

Harnessing AI for addressing air pollution in cities

14 May 2025

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor, on the publication of ‘Physics-based machine learning for predicting urban air pollution using decadal time series data’ in Environmental Research Communications. In this collaborative work with Caltech, researchers develop a new model and...

The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art is proud to retain our Athena Swan Bronze Award for Gender Equality

13 May 2025

The Athena Swan award is a national framework used in higher education and research to promote gender equality and advance the careers of women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) and other fields. It recognises institutions and departments that demonstrate a commitment to creating a more...

The department congratulates our first-ever MPhil (MAUS) students from Bhutan, Pema Yangzom and Sonam Choden, on publishing their MAUS dissertation in a top urban planning journal, Cities

12 May 2025

This dissertation was supervised by Dr Ronita Bardhan and can be read in full here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125001878 . This research empirically shows that in Bhutan, happiness isn't just a philosophy—it shapes policies, communities, and even housing. The paper ‘Residential Satisfaction...