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By Philipp Jarke In the PeriSponge project, a team led by Eva Schwab from the Institute of Urbanism is developing an evidence-based toolbox that municipalities can use to minimise surface sealing and thus the risk of flooding.

NewIn: Jeannette Kuo "Our responsibility doesn't end when we hand over the key" In this episode of NewIn, we meet architect Jeannette Kuo.

With a seasonal river running through it from the highlands to the south, Libya's coastal city of Derna always had been vulnerable to flooding.

By Philipp Jarke und Falko Schoklitsch How can we deal with droughts and floods? To what extent are we ourselves to blame? An interview with Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch from the Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering at TU Graz.

UdeM geography professor Gabriel Fauveaud travelled to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to see the social, economic, and physical impact of the Chinese spending spree in the port city.

Monopolies of homebuilders are contributing to a housing crunch in the U.S., preventing millions of residents from buying a home, says Johns Hopkins economist Luis Quintero For most people, buying a house is a big decision.

Joshua Powell, a recent University of Michigan dual master's graduate in architecture and urban planning who took part in the first ArcPrep course seven years ago, plans to start a firm with his twin brother someday.

"The Laboratory of Change" is the theme for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition. The Venice Architecture Biennale, the world's largest and most visited exhibition focusing on architecture, is once again featuring work by many MIT faculty, students, and alumni.

Low-income earners and others facing housing market barriers have long sought to save costs by sharing. According to a new study by researchers in the University of Sydney's School of Architecture, Design and Planning, shared housing has now become the default 'release valve' in the current housing market, in the absence of secure and affordable alternatives.

An ETH Zurich architectural centrepiece - the machine laboratory- has been renovated. The historically significant machine hall has been extensively restored to its original condition.

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Study shows that cities' plans often won't achieve their goals, but decarbonizing the local grid could make the difference.

The pressing housing shortage in Tilburg has prompted Hospi Housing, together with the City of Tilburg, Fontys University of applied sciences, and Tilburg University, to launch a campaign encouraging

An update from Ian Dancy, UCL's Executive Director of Operations, with the latest news on UCL's security consultation process and details of drop-in sessions for staff.

With the folding of the Greater Cities Commission, Senior Research Fellow Dr Jennifer Kent, from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning explores the challenges facing Sydney's urban planning.

Two University of Luxembourg researchers of the Master in Architecture programme and the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, Francelle Cane and Marija Maric, were selected to represent Luxembourg at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale with their project titled - Down to Earth -.

To prompt discussion about the circular economy and celebrate the role of stone in the City of London's creation, 58 granite blocks from London's Victoria Embankment on the Thames have been relocated throughout the City, as part of a project designed by UCL architects.

Professor Nicole Gurran from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning says governments around the world are searching for how to fix housing affordability, but the solutions will have to be local and community based.

An exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale exploring the concept of cities and urbanism through the lens of a 6,000-year-old Ukrainian archaeological site was developed by a UCL researcher with the Forensic Architecture group at Goldsmiths University.

On Saturday, 20 May, the 18th Biennale of Architecture in Venice opened its doors. In the German pavilion, which focuses on building in existing contexts and the recycling economy, also the Nutrient Harvester developed at Eawag is demonstrated.

Karin Sander, ETH Zurich Professor of Architecture and Art, and Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, are curating the Swiss pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale.

"Ways of Seeing" project documents endangered Afghan heritage sites through digital imaging, virtual reality, and hand-drawn professional renderings.

In the Center for Soft Nanoscience physicists, chemists, biologists and physicians research together under one roof It is bright, functional and interdisciplinary: the Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN) at the University of Münster is a high-tech research building for the nano-sciences.

By Ute Wiedner The new issue of the Graz Architecture Magazine (GAM), recently presented at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), deals with the manifestations of architecture as a professional practice.

The Canopy Pavilion uses hundreds of different interlinked panels to explore physical and mechanical properties never before employed in architecture.