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A new report has recommended that the design and development of new homes for older people must become a national priority if the UK is to avoid a future housing crisis.

A postgraduate student from the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture has won an award for his wildly imaginative architectural drawings.

"Space" is defined and shaped by social forces. A project at the Vienna University of Technology is presently investigating how current changes in these forces are impacting on urban development.

The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents a series of public events throughout the year.

As part of a mission to catalyze the redevelopment of flood-ravaged New Orleans, world-renowned architect and UCLA distinguished professor Thom Mayne, seven graduate students from the UCLA Department

UCLA's cityLAB has announced the finalists for " WPA 2. Working Public Architecture ," the urban think tank's open competition seeking innovative, implementable proposals that place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding American cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery.

UCL formally launched its Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities ' a programme to rally the university's breadth of expertise in service of urban sustainability ' at an evening event on 8 July 2009.

Plans for most isolated hotel in the world unveiled by students Industrial Design Engineering students unveil their plans for a proposed space hotel %0A " By Colin Smith Tuesday 23 June 2009 Plans fo

WHAT: "RUMBLE" highlights work by architecture and urban design faculty, students and alumni engaged in the shifting edge of contemporary critical thinking and design innovation at UCLA.

Princeton's Graduate School admitted 1,068 of the 10,135 applicants who applied for the 2009-10 academic year, with the strength of the school's financial aid program contributing to a 10 percent increase in the number of students applying to master's and doctoral programs.

Model, digital resources help students, instructors learn about sacred site For the past two years, a team of UCLA Egyptologists, digital modelers, web designers, staff and students has been building

Real-time computer model tells history of ancient Egyptian religious site WHAT: Modelers, archaeologists and historians will offer virtual tours of a new three-dimensional computer model of Karnak, a 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian religious complex in Luxor, Egypt.

(Note to editors: Images can be obtained by contacting media representatives. The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents a series of public events throughout the year.

Opera UCLA presents a roisterous new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro" at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall, at 8 p.m. on Feb.