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The Cultural Significance of Architecture: A conference in memory of Dalibor Vesely
The Cultural Significance of Architecture: A conference in memory of Dalibor Vesely overview
Session 1: History and Philosophy of Architecture
Session 1: History and Philosophy of Architecture overview
To the conference in memory of Dalibor Vesely - José de Paiva
Low Relief - or, articulation tied to embodiment - David Leatherbarrow
Dalibor Vesely and The Primacy of Orality - Perez-Gomez
Karsten Harries - Remembering Dalibor Vesely
Robin Middleton - Dalibor Vesely statement
The Cultural Significance of Architecture - In Memory of Dalibor Vesely - Mari Hvattum
Hvattum_Presentation1
What is the cultural significance of architecture - Peter Carl
The Presence of Dalibor Vesely - K Frampton
Dalibor Vesely's Flat - The Dwelling as a Communicative Field - Dagmar Weston
Session 2: Design and the European City
Session 2: Design and the European City overview
Drawings: David Dernie
Chatting about the city - Diana Periton
Dalibor Reflections - Mohsen Mostafavi - March2016
Creative Intelligence in Architecture - Phil Meadowcroft
Design and the European City - Kalliope Kontozoglou
Athanasios Spanomaridis with DALIBOR VESELY
To DALIBOR - Athanasios Spanomaridis
E.Parry_Dalibor Vesely conference (Session 2)_11 April 2016
CWFrost. Fragment Craft Tradition
David Bass - Architecture Laughter and Animals
Diana Periton - slides
Session 3: Legacy, New Horizons
Session 3: Legacy, New Horizons overview
Carolyn Steel - conference slides
Hand Drawings - P Lynch
Sitopia – a tribute to Dalibor by Carolyn Steel
The Cultural Significance of Architecture - In Memory of Dalibor Vesely - Stephen Witherford
Dalibor Vesely and the criticism of architecture - Rowan Moore060416
P LYNCH PRESENTATION - DV SYMPOSIUM EMMANUELLE COLLEGE-opt
Architecture's Contribution - Wendy Pullan
Biba Dow - Dalibor conf_Session 3
Homa - diffused digital
Homa - Conference Slides
William Mann - Ruins of the Baroque - slides
William Mann - Ruins of the Baroque - Slides and text
Dalibor Vesely Memorial Conference Programme
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Building History Newsletter March 2021
Building History Newsletter December 2019
Building History Newsletter July 2018
Building History Newsletter March 2018
Building History Newsletter July 2017
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Building History Newsletter December 2016
Building History Newsletter March 2016
Building History Newsletter 2 February 2015
Building History Newsletter April 2014
MSt in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment
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History and Theory
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Building Histories
Building Histories overview
The Development of the Timber Roof Truss 1660-1710
History of Brick
History of Brick overview
The Development of Brickwork in England 1610-1710
Brick: a World History
Wren, St Paul’s and 17th Century Craftsmen
Staircases: History, Repair and Conservation
History of Doors
Proceedings of the Construction History Society Conferences
Erasmus Summer Schools on Construction History 2011-2013
Applying to Study Building History
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Wartime Huts
Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Wallpaper and Decorating Records 1824-1938
Local Tradition and British Influence in Building Construction in Shanghai (1840-1937)
Heating Historic Churches
Timber Railway Bridges in the Nineteenth Century
Seventh Annual Conference on Construction History April 2020
Seventh Annual Conference on Construction History April 2020 overview
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Iron and Steel
Before the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Twentieth Century
Eighth Annual Conference on Construction History, August 2021
The Library in History
The Soane and Freemasonry
Water and Civilisation
Informal Cities in Latin America
Domestic Devotions: the place of piety in the Italian Renaissance home
Alvar Aalto’s church architecture in Germany
Modern Architecture and the Sacred
Hans Döllgast (1891-1974): Witness and Protagonist of Modern Architecture in Germany
Projection: Alvar Aalto and the Moving Image
Cambridge Design Research Studio
Global Urban
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Global Land Enclosures, Urban-Technology, and Experimental Property in Medellin’s Comunas
African Modernism: Architecture of Independence
The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research
AHRC Filming Energy Research Network (FERN)
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Filming Workshops (2020-22)
A Room in Mumbai
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Conflict in Cities
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Conflict in Cities website
Polish-German Border Towns: Models of Transnationalism?
MINE: Machine learning Intelligence Network for Epidemics
MINE: Machine learning Intelligence Network for Epidemics overview
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Natural Materials and Structures
Natural Materials and Structures overview
Natural Material Innovation
EcoHouse Initiative
Structural Bamboo Products (SBP)
Structural Bamboo Products (SBP) overview
Structural Bamboo Pavilion. International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS 2015). Muziekgebouw. Amsterdam
Polymer Modified Timber
Masonry Vaulting
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Tile Vaulting
Ladrillo Recargado
The Martin Centre: Sustainable buildings and cities
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Aviation Integrated Modeling (AIM)
Cambridge Futures
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SOLUTIONS - Sustainable Land Use and Transport
ReVISIONS – Regional Visions of Integrated Sustainable Infrastructure Optimised for Neighbourhoods
Multimodal Efficient Transportation at Airports: Collalborative Decision Making (MetaCDM)
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Sustainable Building
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Robust Hospital Environments in a Changing Climate
Natural and Hybrid Environmental Design Strategies
Activity-Space Research
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The Architecture of Light
Light in Libraries
Health, Wellbeing and Buildings
Heating Historic Churches
Digital Studio
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Digital Studio Symposium 2017
Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE)
Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE) overview
EXPLORIS
Eyewitness Reports of the 26.12.04 South Asian Tsunami
LESSLOSS
Building damage and casualties in the Kashmir Earthquake of 8.10.05
Indicators for Measuring, Monitoring and Evaluating Post-Disaster Recovery
RebuilDD
SENSUM
Flood Narratives
Pan-participatory Assessment and Governance of Earthquake Risks in the Ordos Area (PAGER-O)
Learning from Earthquakes: Building Resilient Communities Through Earthquake Reconnaissance, Response and Recovery
Expertise Under Pressure
Behaviour and Building Performance
Behaviour and Building Performance overview
The B-bem project: The Bayesian building energy management Portal
The User-TEC project: User Practices, Technologies and Residential Energy Consumption
Circular maker cities: The European Pop-Machina research project
Circular maker cities: The European Pop-Machina research project overview
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Newton International Fellowships
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Research Seminars
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Cambridge City Seminars: Urban Guilds in contemporary placemaking
The Cambridge Architectural History Seminars
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Conferences
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Applied Urban Modelling (AUM)
Applied Urban Modelling (AUM) overview
Joint Cambridge-Berkeley Urban Design Charrette
Joint Cambridge-Berkeley Urban Design Charrette overview
John G. Ellis: Urban Design Seminar: Teaching Urban Design: A Hands-on Experience
Old Oak Common, London: ‘Fundamental Questions’
Old Oak Masterplan:Question & Answer Session for shortlisted tenderers
Old Oak and Park Royal: Guided Tour Briefing Pack
PARK ROYAL ATLAS: An Employment Study of London’s Largest Industrial Area
Spectres of Time in Space: Tracing Phantom Temporalities with Architectural Methodologies
Current PhD Research in the Department
Current PhD Research in the Department overview
Ibrahim Abdou: Cairo’s Vacant Houses: Trajectories of accumulation, regulation, and improvisation
Prachi Acharya: Housing for Welfare in India: Insights on the world’s largest ‘assisted self-help’ low-cost rural and peri-urban scheme from ground implementers in riparian Odisha
Sam Aitkenhead: The unintended consequences of designing out friction from the home of the future.
Anna Boldina: Urban Hiking. Factors that can persuade pedestrians to choose more physically challenging routes in urban environment, in connection with their physical abilities
Michael Collins: The transformative potential of urban agriculture: Re-framing architectural theory and practice
Mohamed Derbal: Space, time and community: German architectural discourse and the search for national unity, 1890-1914
Zhou Fang: Revisit cities with computer vision: a novel deep learning powered framework for urban fabric analysis
Vendela Gambill: Land use planning and applied urban modelling: natural limits to growth in London
Ana Gatóo: Digital timber for affordable housing
Yelda Gin: Emerging Earthen Architecture: Digital Design and Fabrication for Building with Earth
I-Dec Goh: Objectification of Design Through Machine Learning: An unbiased deep generative framework for architectural design
Kan-chane Gunawardena: Vertical greening in urban built environments
Charlie Hamilton (FCILT): Mass Transit in Small to Medium Sized Cities
Yu Hu: The Evolution of Urban Office Space in The Age of Information and Communication Technology
Michal Huss: Walking Through Landscapes of Displacement: The spatiality of Transcultural Memory Activism
Yasser M. Khaldi: Governing Renewable Energy Transition in Conflict Contexts: The Case of Palestine
Xin Li: Urban densification and social capital: neighbourhood restructuring in China
Yufei Li: Atlas in Motion: Visualising Manchuria through Moving Images
Mariana Llano Valencia: Coloniality, Whiteness and Masculinity in Modern Urban Planning in Latin America using Cartagena, Colombia as a case study
Yusi Luo: Housing Choices of Young graduates in the UK
Eimar McDonagh: The British Marble Industry: The Manufacture & Application of Marble on the Devonshire Estates 1550-1915
Heather Mitcheltree: Geographies of gendered and domestic violence in Australia
Ekaterina Mizrokhi: Life in Anachronistic Space: Awaiting Demolition in Moscow's Soviet-era Standardised Housing
Jiayu Pan: Redesigning interior spaces to accommodate social distancing for the rare events
Lingzi Pan: The role of social connectedness in quality-of-life measurement and urban modelling
Toby Parsloe: The Urban Camp: Hospitality and Hostility in Berlin's long-term Refugee Shelter
Zhikai Peng: Exploring Urban Spatial Behaviour Under Thermal Stress: How variations in sun and wind conditions due to urban form affect public space use?
Georgia Politi: The life and work of Sir Horace Jones, PRIBA (1819-1887)
Maiss Razem: Contextualizing sustainable buildings transition: Unpacking socio-culturally shaped cooling demand in Jordanian houses
Natcha Ruamsanitwong: Modernising Britain: Sir Leslie Martin (1908-2000) and his role in shaping the Architectural Education in Britain
Filomena Russo: Restorative Intermediate Architectural Environments
Aisha Sobey: Urban futures: The implications of smart cities and digital living for wellbeing
Yiqiao Sun: A Cinematic Approach to the Practice of Everyday Life - The Case of Beijing Hutong Neighbourhood
Jonathan Weston: Beyond the Pretty Picture: Exploring the Aesthetic and Function of the Architectural Visualisation
Eduardo Wiegand: The Life Cycle Design of Multi-storey Wood Buildings: opportunities for efficiency across the construction value chain
Ran Xiao: Computer aided space planning for residential buildings
Yue Ying: Understanding variability in neighbourhood responses to regeneration initiatives
Di Zhao: European Railway Buildings in China 1890-1940: an example of cross-cultural exchange
Lingzheng Zhu: Mediating Nature: The Practice of Synthetic Media in the Contemporary Eastern Context
Yue Zhu: A New Deep Learning Framework for Investigating Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Land Use Patterns to Aid Future Urban Planning in Cities
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Professor Reinier de Graaf
Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor of Urban Design for 2018-20
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