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14 Dec 2011 Architecture graduate Angela Darby from the University of Melbourne has a passion for sustainability and design and hopes to bring these two disciplines together through her studies at Oxford University.

Roberto Gargiani unveils a different vision of Switzerland's most famous architect - Le Corbusier. Published at EPFL Press.

An international jury has deliberated over design ideas submitted to the Melbourne School of Design competition to revolutionise the humble re-locatable classroom, and the results are now in.

Solar thermal systems are today the most efficient renewable choice for hot water production.

Works by Yoko Ono and Turner Prize nominee Karla Black feature in a new exhibition on the nature of beauty.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Home prices in many of the world's most famous cities run to well over $1,000 per square foot.

The global financial crisis and the creation of the Group of 20 (G20) have put Asian economies in the driver's seat of world economic affairs.

UC San Diego Housing and Dining John Muir College Revelle College New Housing at UC San Diego Showcases Latest in Green Innovation August 8th, 2011 By Christine Clark Revelle's Charles David Keeling a

Luca Ortelli is the new director of the Institute of Architecture and the City in EPFL's School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC).

by Colin Smith An Imperial postgraduate has developed a suite of interactive tools to make museums and galleries more fun for children, including magic goggles, a Harry Potter style map and brushes that make sounds.

Effects of solar photovoltaic panels on roof heat transfer Jan Kleissl's website Solar Panels Keep Buildings Cool July 18, 2011 By Ioana Patringenaru Those solar panels on top of your roof aren't jus

A Reader in the School of Architecture has taken part in the Research Councils UK (RCUK) 'Big Ideas for the Future' launch in the House of Commons. Carl Hopkins, Head of the Acoustics Research Unit , had his Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project on interactive performance for musicians with a hearing impairment included in the report, which is jointly published by Universities UK and RCUK.

What: Public meeting on St. Anthony Falls Laboratory renovation project When: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug.

The proposal to build a wall between Mexico and the United States, along with a call to deport undocumented immigrants, has turned the country's attention once again to immigration and the complex issues surrounding our southern border.

A radically new approach to the design of batteries, developed by researchers at MIT, could provide a lightweight and inexpensive alternative to existing batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid.

The move toward smarter, lighter and more powerful electronics, computers and smartphones depends on whether transistor circuits, the building blocks of such devices, can process large amounts of information. As these circuits get faster and smaller, the number of errors they generate — arising from heat dissipation, noise and structural disorder —in the physical information they process increases, which can impede development.

Formas' research council has just awarded SEK 50 million to two strong research environments. Katja Grillner, Professor at KTH's School of Architecture, will be responsible for half of the money.

The culture of the West Country in the Middle Ages and its role in shaping the identity of Medieval England is the focus of a new research project at the University of Bristol.

A LANL excavation crew working on a Recovery Act cleanup project has uncovered the remnants of a 1940s military truck buried in a Manhattan Project-era landfill.

February show brings together cutting-edge choreographers, newly commissioned scores and student dancers at Stanford to examine kinetic memory.

PA 358/10 The excavation of an ancient underwater city — dating back to 3500 BC — is to be the subject of a major new BBC Two television documentary. This ground breaking project will feature the research of underwater archaeologist Dr Jon Henderson from The University of Nottingham. The programme will use state-of-the-art computer graphics to show what pre-historic Pavlopetri — a submerged city lying off the coast of Greece — would have looked like and how its people lived.

What does it take to design and mass-produce an automobile to sell for around $2,500? And what are the inevitable environmental, social, economic and cultural impacts of having 5 million, 10 million,

— Coral Gables — A $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will allow the University of Miami (UM) College of Engineering to develop an autonomous net-zero water dormitory at UM.

'Colouring The Invisible' is a short-term installation by Julia Vogl, student at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, to reflect the languages most commonly spoken by the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies? (SSEES) community.

When Mabel O. Wilson surveys the architecture of Ghana, she sees the complex history of the former British colony.

13 Oct 2010 The Director of the University's Melbourne School of Design has welcomed a plan by the State Opposition to hold a design competition for a redevelopment of Flinders Street Station.