The School of Architecture + Cities is delighted to announce that Robert Beeny, MArch student from Design Studio 16 won this year’s RIBA President’s Silver Medal for his project Devil’s Valley Geothermal Co-operative. This project is situated in an area of Tuscany, Italy known as […]
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Mayor’s Entrepreneur Internship | Deadline: Midnight, December 6, 2020
The applications for 35 student interns to support the Mayor’s Entrepreneur competition are now open! You can see full details of the roles and how to apply here but key elements are: Contract Type: 6 Months Fixed Term part time (3.5 hours per week, flexible around lectures) starting […]

Christmas Competition and other updates from the Fabrication Laboratory
As we get close to the Christmas Break, we have some updates from the Fabrication Lab, as well as the launch of a short Christmas Competition for our staff and our students. Twelve Days of Christmas Window and Competition Fabrication Laboratory is doing what they […]

Two new publications in Studio as Book Series edited by John Zhang and Elantha Evans.
The School of Architecture and Cities is pleased to announce the publication of two new books in the Studio as Book Series: No. 4 A Tale of Two Cities, JID Studio, 2015-2020, edited by John Zhang, 2020 No. 5 Dialogues + Dreams, DS(2)01, 2015-2018, edited by Elantha Evans, 2020 The […]

RIBA Student Support Fund – Autumn 2020 Application Cycle | Deadline: Friday, November 27 at 17:00 GMT
The RIBA Student Support Fund – Autumn 2020 Application Cycle is now open. The full details including guidance notes and application form can be found on the RIBA website here. The purpose of the RIBA Student Support Fund is to alleviate financial hardship for students of architecture […]

Competition: Transforming Urban Landscapes | Deadline: December 4, 2020 at 17:00
This new international ideas competition launched by the Landscape Institute will be of interest to students and/or professionals. The aim of the competition is to respond to the current debates on the design and use of our urban landscape in light of the COVID-19 crisis. […]

Robin Evans Lecture 2020: Eyal Weizman | November 24, 2020 from 18:30 to 20:30
About this Event For the 2020 iteration of the annual Robin Evans Lecture, we are delighted to be joined by Eyal Weizman, founding director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. In light of the current pandemic this […]

Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows’ article for RIBAJ: “Practical steps towards real inclusion”
Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, an architect, researcher, and the BSc Architectural Technology Year 2 leader has published an article in The RIBA Journal on how the architects can use their skills to help improve conditions for the disadvantaged and marginalised communities and members of our […]

The Architecture Drawing Prize 2020 | Entry deadline: October 2, 2020
The Architecture Drawing Prize is an international competition that celebrates the art and skill of architectural drawing. The prize is curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival. In the spirit of many great architects of the past, from Palladio […]

School of Architecture + Cities featured in Dezeen’s Virtual Design Festival School Show
University of Westminster architecture students share “varied design approaches” across 9 projects A dementia clinic that celebrates the joy of eggs and a dance school for the over 60s feature in this VDF school show of work from the University of Westminster‘s architecture students. Of the more than 750 graduates […]