Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge explained

University of Cambridge Department of Architecture
Type:	Public
Established:	1912
Head Label:	Head of Department
Campus Type:	Urban
Head:	Prof Flora Samuel
Academic Staff:	48
Undergrad:	190
Postgrad:	145
Address:	1 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Website:	arct.cam.ac.uk CDRS

The Department of Architecture is part of the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art in the University of Cambridge. Both Departments are housed in Scroope Terrace on Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

The department is currently led by Flora Samuel.^[1]

Notable alumni and staff

The department has attracted numerous guest lecturers including Louis Kahn, Zaha Hadid, Kenneth Frampton, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier and Yasmeen Lari.

Alumni

• Christopher Alexander, architect, co-author of A Pattern Language
• Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, photographer
• Joanna Bacon
• Peter Clegg (Stirling Prize, 2008)
• Catherine Cooke, architect and Russian scholar
• Dora Cosens
• Edward Cullinan (RIBA Gold Medal, 2008)
  • Spencer de Grey, architect, Head of Design Foster and Partners Philip Dowson (RIBA Gold Medal, 1981)
• Peter Eisenman
• Richard Feilden
• Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
• Vaughan Hart, architectural historian
• Robert Hurd
• Sumet Jumsai
• Patrick Lynch, architect, founder Lynch Architects
• Richard MacCormac, architect, founder of MJP Architects
• Lionel March
• James Mason
• Raymond McGrath
• Rowan Moore, architecture correspondent for The Observer
• Christopher Nicholson
• Eric Parry
• Sunand Prasad (RIBA President, 2007–09)
• Cedric Price
• Colin St John Wilson
• Colin Stansfield Smith (RIBA Gold Medal, 1991)
• Robert Tavernor
• Brenda and Robert Vale
• Sarah Wigglesworth
• Ken Yeang
• Keith Griffiths, founder of Aedas

Current and former staff

• Bob Allies
• Peter Blundell Jones
• Peter Bicknell
• Hugh Casson
• George Checkley
• Peter Clegg (Stirling Prize, 2008)
• Charles Correa (RIBA Gold Medal, 1984)
• Frank Duffy (RIBA President, 1993–95)
• Peter Eisenmann
• Max Fordham
• Dean Hawkes
• Felipe Hernandez
• Deborah Howard
• Henry Castree Hughes
• David Leatherbarrow
• Leslie Martin (RIBA Gold Medal, 1973)
• Richard MacCormac (RIBA President, 1991–93)
• Bruce Martin
• Mohsen Mostafavi
• Eric Parry
• Edward Prior
• David Roberts
• Colin Rowe (RIBA Gold Medal, 1995)
• Joseph Rykwert
• Peter Salter
• Colin St John Wilson
• James Stirling (Pritzker Prize Laureate)
• Dalibor Vesely

ARCSOC

ARCSOC is the Department's Architecture Society, hosting club nights,^{[2] [3]} as well as guest lectures and highly popular life-drawing evenings.^[4] The society entirely self-funds, organises, and designs the Department's end-of-year exhibition, typically held in London. Reviewing the 2017 edition held at Bargehouse OXO Tower for the Architects' Journal, James Soane praised the "skilful explorations of materiality and narrative" on display.^[5] In 2024 the end-of-year exhibition returns to Cambridge and will be held in the Department and Kettle's Yard.

External links

• Official Website
• Cambridge Design Research Studio

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lowe2021-12-08T06:00:00+00:00 . Tom . Arb approves Cambridge's part 2 architecture apprenticeship . 2022-09-21 . Building Design . en.
2. Web site: 2020-09-15 . The Cambridge (Tab's) Dictionary of bizarre lingo used only at Cambridge . 2022-09-21 . University of Cambridge . en-GB.
3. Web site: 2021-11-12 . What to wear to ARCSOC X SLIPPED DISC: GLITCH . 2022-09-21 . University of Cambridge . en-GB.
4. Web site: Esther Arthurson: I'm off to ArcSoc life drawing. Guess who the model is? . 2022-11-17 . Varsity Online . en.
5. Web site: Soane . James . 2017-07-19 . Degree show review: University of Cambridge . 2022-09-21 . The Architects’ Journal . en.