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This week marks the last chance to see Constructing Realities , an exhibition featuring the work of postgraduate students from the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, running until Friday 1 October at Phase 2 on Fitzroy Street.

University of Leeds engineers are working with the artist Victoria Ferrand Scott to exploit the untapped potential of architecture's 'ugly duckling' as a versatile and even sensuous sculptural material.

PA 219/10 How can vast cities accommodate millions more people while reducing their impact on the environment? This is what British and Chinese experts in 'eco-urbanism' will explore in China next Monday and Tuesday at Shanghai Expo 2010, set in the world's most populous 'true' city.

Links: Green UCL Blue UCL event information UCL Environment Institute UCL Estates and Facilities UCL Union and the environment HoldUP Architecture An installation exploring how much water it requires

The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year's Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (07/23/2010) —A public-private partnership led by University of Minnesota researchers has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to help develo

"Unseen/Seen: The Mapping of Joy and Pain" to be unveiled at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park this Friday, July 23 People in Minneapolis-St. Paul will receive an unusual opportunity starting Friday.

Eligible faculty members have quickly purchased 35 of the 39 homes that make up a new housing development between Olmsted Road and Stanford Avenue.

The six-acre site contains a series of trenches used from 1944 to 1948 to dispose of hazardous and non-hazardous trash from Manhattan Project labs and buildings.

The Summer Show is the annual celebration of student work at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. Over 450 students show innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations.

A large and important collection of works by idiosyncratic illustrator, designer and writer Edward Gorey has been donated to Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library by Andrew Alpern (ARCH'64).

An exciting new temporary structure - Reflective Room - is currently being constructed in The Manchester Museum's courtyard, due to be completed by 6 July 2010.

Post-war buildings at the University of Leeds which created world-wide interest when they were built have been listed on the recommendation of English Heritage.

The architectural and structural havoc wreaked by torrential rain, flooding and fluctuating temperatures could be prevented thanks to analysis based on laboratory simulations.

A solar-powered bamboo radio; a coat stand inspired by Salvador Dali; a paracetamol-infused jam; and a giant man/ant hybrid will all go on public display this month as part of the annual University of Plymouth Arts Degree Show.

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to unveil an 11-metre high piece of public art at The University of Manchester's world-famous John Rylands Library today (20 May).

President John Hennessy presented his annual address to the Academic Council in two of Stanford's newest buildings - one devoted to the study of economic policy and another (still under construction) that will house the School of Engineering.

Cambridge, Mass. May 4, 2010 - Gu-Yeon Wei, whose research combines computer science and electrical engineering in addressing technical barriers to faster, more efficient computers and portable elect

BERKELEY — The University of California, Berkeley, announced today (Tuesday, April 27) the selection of three architecture firms to submit design proposals for the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).

It is easy to understand why CJ Lim, Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, has a special insight into the emotions of international students contemplating life at UCL.

A free exhibition showing the complex relationship between the city environment - such as buildings, walls and murals - with urban conflict is in Manchester this week.

A pioneering architectural study into the history and impact of multi-faith spaces has been launched by a University of Manchester team with a meeting of representatives from the UK's major faiths.

BERKELEY — For the past decade, French-born artist Jean-Paul Bourdier has photographed friends covered in paint against desert landscapes to illustrate the connection between the body and the earth.

Architecture is analytic yet its norms have shifted over time, while design involves a process of synthesis, asserted architect Peter Eisenman in an opinionated and discursive lecture March 10 in Goldwin Smith Hall.

On Friday, March 5, MIT officially opens the Media Lab Complex, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki and Associates in association with Leers Weinzapfel Associates.

Last year, the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library acquired the papers of J. Max Bond Jr.

Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) has long been known for its global initiatives.

Museums once were sanctuaries where visitors quietly contemplated artwork. Times have changed. Many modern museums now serve as gathering spots for the art-minded and (especially) the young.

  Parking changes in effect during dedication Several parking changes will be in effect during the dedication of Whitman College on Thursday, Sept.

Steven Holl Architects designed an expansion and renovation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.

Ron McCoy, a Princeton graduate alumnus who has worked for the past 27 years as an architect and educator, has been selected as the new University architect.

The curtain of aluminum-glazed windows falling from the curved steel roofline that frames the Lewis Library is a reflection of the architect's homage to the beauty of the lines and curves he sees in everyday life.