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Read more at: Dr Rihab Khalid has interviewed this year’s Sir Arthur Marshall Professor Yasmeen Lari for Research Pathways in Buildings & Cities

Dr Rihab Khalid has interviewed this year’s Sir Arthur Marshall Professor Yasmeen Lari for Research Pathways in Buildings & Cities

21 November 2022

Read all about Professor Lari’s impactful journey towards climate resiliant disaster-relief design in Pakistan here: https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/research-pathways/co-producing-humanitarian-architecture.html


Read more at: PhD student Jiayu Pan received the Turing Enrichment Award at the Alan Turing Institute

PhD student Jiayu Pan received the Turing Enrichment Award at the Alan Turing Institute

12 October 2022

Jiayu Pan has been accepted into the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme as a placement student for 2022/23 at the Alan Turing Institute. The Turing Enrichment scheme ( https://www.turing.ac.uk/work-turing/studentships/enrichment ) offers students currently enrolled on a doctoral programme at a UK university the...


Read more at: 'A retrofitting revolution Laying the foundations for buildings to stay cool in extreme heat': Research by Professor Alan Short featured on the University of Cambridge website

'A retrofitting revolution Laying the foundations for buildings to stay cool in extreme heat': Research by Professor Alan Short featured on the University of Cambridge website

11 October 2022

In 2008 Professor Alan Short was tasked with designing a hospital that could self-regulate its temperature. Professor Short, who has a long history in environmental architecture and has designed several self-regulating buildings, envisaged a solution that was completely naturally ventilated and cooled. The resulting design...


Read more at: Participatory design workshop of our Year 2 students with the Cambridge Association of Architects and Chesterton College's secondary school children, as part of the course 'Acting through Architecture'

Participatory design workshop of our Year 2 students with the Cambridge Association of Architects and Chesterton College's secondary school children, as part of the course 'Acting through Architecture'

11 October 2022

The workshop provided an opportunity for students to collaborate with the CAA and Chesterton pupils, a process in which they have learned, through a hands-on experience, possible ways to engage others in a design activity that they have prepared. The workshop provided a first- time experience of the challenges and...


Read more at: Professor Emily So and Janette Kim from the California College of Art will be hosting two board game sessions to explore how networks of sociability and care can adapt to climate change and other disasters at the Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival

Professor Emily So and Janette Kim from the California College of Art will be hosting two board game sessions to explore how networks of sociability and care can adapt to climate change and other disasters at the Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival

11 October 2022

The festival takes place from 14-16 th October. For more details and to register to play a round of “Bartertown”, do visit: https://climatechangefestival.zero.cam.ac.uk/events/empowering-climate-action-through-game-play-0


Read more at: Yousuf Khalil wins AJ Student Prize 2022

Yousuf Khalil wins AJ Student Prize 2022

10 October 2022

The winners of the AJ student prize were announced at the offices of Sheppard Robson architects on 7 October. We are delighted that MAUD student Yousuf Khalili won the postgraduate category for his project, Urban Canopies which envisaged a series of interventions for Pakistan’s railway communities in Lahore to facilitate a...


Read more at: The Faculty is delighted to welcome Yasmeen Lari as the Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor in Sustainable Design for 2022/2023.

The Faculty is delighted to welcome Yasmeen Lari as the Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor in Sustainable Design for 2022/2023.

5 October 2022

Yasmeen Lari was the first female architect in Pakistan and winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2020. She trained as an architect in the UK and opened her practice in Pakistan at the age of 23, over the next 40 years firmly establishing herself as one the regions leading design architects with a series of startling brutalist...


Read more at: Scroope 32 call for abstracts: 'The Quotidian and the Enchanted'

Scroope 32 call for abstracts: 'The Quotidian and the Enchanted'

30 August 2022

Scroope 32 examines the quotidian and the enchanted - the ways in which identity is constructed, projected, and framed, and the pathways by which we navigate a world that is often disorienting and alienating. We are seeking submissions that explore and challenge the forms, spaces, environments, landscapes, and constructs...


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate Muyiwa Oki on being appointed President of the RIBA

The Department would like to congratulate Muyiwa Oki on being appointed President of the RIBA

3 August 2022

For more information on Muyiwa Oki's election visit: https://riba.msgfocus.com/q/1HaTf1qOcOti3ukrMvhpH/wv


Read more at: The ArcSoc Student Show 2022 has been reviewed in the Architect's Journal

The ArcSoc Student Show 2022 has been reviewed in the Architect's Journal

28 July 2022

student-show_index_cambridge-1600x1067.jpg Image credit: ARCSOC The End of Year Exhibition took place at the Barge House, Oxo Tower, London from the 7-10th July. Read the full review by Jon Astbury here: ‘Assessing post-Covid landscapes’: Cambridge University Student Show 2022 (architectsjournal.co.uk)