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The Department would like to congratulate Professor Deborah Howard on winning the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023

20 June 2023

Professor Deborah Howard has won the award for the project ' Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio '. All winners are now up for a Public Choice Award and voting is open here: https://vote.europanostra.org For more information about the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards visit...

The Department would like to congratulate Professor Yasmeen Lari, our 2022-23 Sir Arthur Marshall Professor of Sustainable Urban Design, on receiving the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for architecture 2023

27 April 2023

This high honour is given in recognition of Yasmeen Lari's long and productive career championing zero-carbon solutions for housing displaced populations and has been approved by King Charles III personally. For more information about the award visit: https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards...

Elain Harwood 1958-2023

27 April 2023

It was with great sadness and real shock that we learnt of the death last week of Elain Harwood. Elain was a tireless advocate for twentieth-century architecture. Her career with English Heritage and later Historic England was largely devoted to identifying, researching, publishing and protecting the best of modern...

The Department Celebrates the Announcement of Flora Samuel as Sixth Professor of Architecture (1970)

24 November 2022

The Department of Architecture is delighted and excited to announce that the Board of Electors have unanimously elected and the Vice Chancellor has duly appointed Professor Flora Samuel as the sixth Professor of Architecture (1970) in the University of Cambridge. This is the only established Professorial Chair in the...

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...

Architecture Comes Top in REF

12 May 2022

The Cambridge Department of Architecture has been ranked top by the Times Higher Educational Supplement in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework for research quality in a joint submission with Land Economy, one of four Cambridge University disciplines to have achieved first place in their respective Units of Assessment...

Opening of Cambridge Year One students live build project for Empty Urban Common Garden

14 November 2018

The Year One students worked incredibly hard to produce the vertical elements of the future meeting space for the garden from recycled materials. Eight groups of students designed and built the eight wall elements to a distinctive brief including the provision of storage, seating and views into the garden. Five of the...

Year One live build project: Common Room

6 November 2018

Year One would like to invite you to join us for the lunchtime opening of this year’s live building project at the Empty Common Community Garden on Monday 12 November 2018 . The elements designed by the students will be on display between 1-2pm . The students have created a blog page about their project https://cb2029...

A Space to Study: First Year Live Build Project 2017

13 November 2017

Each year, first year students spend their first term at the department designing and building a live project, working to a brief set by a local organisation. Previous projects have seen students build play equipment for the University of Cambridge primary school; install an interactive percussion wall at the Cambridge...

100 years of Research and Practice

8 November 2012

The ‘100 Years: Research and Practice’ Symposium held at the Gillespie Centre in Clare College on the 17 th September 2012 was organised to celebrate the Department of Architecture’s unique contribution to architectural research and its relationship with architectural practice on the occasion of the centenary of the school...