Martin Centre Research Seminar Series
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| Description: | The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies is the research division of the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture, honoring in its title the late Sir Leslie Martin, Emeritus Professor of Architecture. Since 1970, the Centre has held open lectures once a week during full term. The talks are intended for non- specialist audiences, and all are welcome. |
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Professor Martin Morris "Sustainability and the Traditional Architecture of Japan: Cities That Could Revert to Summer...
ABSTRACT:
This talk considers the traditional architecture of Japan from the standpoint of sustainability. With its preference for renewable biodegradable timbernot masonryas...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 25 Oct 2010
Professor Matthew Carmona "The Isle of Dogs: Four Development Waves, Five Planning Models, Twelve Plans, Thirty Five...
ABSTRACT:
The story of the redevelopment of London’s Isle of Dogs is one that has only partially been told. Most academic interest ceased following the property crash of the...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 25 Oct 2010
Professor Phil Jones "A Future Zero Carbon Built Environment?"
ABSTRACT:
Government policy in the UK and abroad is pushing hard the carbon agenda, with buildings as a main target. The current focus, to achieve zero carbon operating...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 25 Oct 2010
Dr Ken Yeang "Ecological Design and Planning"
ABSTRACT:
The premise is that there is no one single best approach to achieving green design, but a number of ways to arrive at the same goal. The presentation presents five...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Professor Nabeel Hamdi "The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community"
ABSTRACT:
Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience worldwide, Nabeel Hamdi offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by practitioners when working to...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Dr Felipe Hernandez "Housing the Poor in Latin America: Changing Attitudes towards Urban Informality"
ABSTRACT:
This seminar will examine four case studies that show the innovative ways in which contemporary architects throughout Latin American are responding to the challenge of...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Dr Peter Kellett "Constructing the Contemporary City: Informal Housing Processes in Latin America"
ABSTRACT:
Our understanding of how cities are planned and produced is being challenged by the expanding cities of Latin America. Here the majority of new construction is in the...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Professor Bill Hillier "A New Theory of the City"
ABSTRACT:
Cities can be thought of as socio-technical systems. In contrast to previous theories, here I propose a more complex and, I believe, true-to-life model based on the...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Dr Andong Lu "Cinematic Mapping: the Observation and Documentation of Urban Space"
ABSTRACT:
Since early use of its documentary power (e.g. Mumford 1939), in the 1970s film has become a primary tool for observing and analyzing the real city (e.g. Banham 1972;...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Charlie Peel "Facing up to rising sea levels: Retreat? Defend? Attack?"
ABSTRACT:
The work looks at the long-term future of our coastal cities, and different strategies to react positively to the problem of rising sea-levels. We took three different...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Alex Ely "Patterns and Parameters"
ABSTRACT:
There are certain universal conditions of a city and of housing that, if codified, can help architects and planners achieve a successful outcome. 'Urbanity', by...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Karl Kropf "Urban Morphology and Design Theory: open up from the inside out"
ABSTRACT:
We have reached a point where the whole of the built environment has been claimed as the historic environment and all development is subject to the standards of...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Runming Yao "Urban Microclimate Studies - Numerical and Experimental"
ABSTRACT:
This presentation introduces a research project involving numerical and experimental studies carried out at the University of Reading, UK, which is funded by the UK...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Professor Tom Spector "In Search of Democratic Architecture -Towards a Working Thesis on the Public Good as the Ethical...
ABSTRACT:
Deriving the ethical justification of the architects actions in the resulting public welfare is a longstanding article of faith amongst architects in most democratic...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Jason Palmer "UK Housing Policy: Putting Carbon to the Fore?"
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For forty years the Government has tried to cut energy use in UK homes. Energy efficiency in housing has always jockeyed with other priorities, but recent concerns...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Haim Yacobi "From Terra Nullius to Terra Incognita and Back: Israeli Architect in Africa 1956-1973"
ABSTRACT:
This presentation will critically explore Israel’s past involvement (1956-1973) in Africa, with a special focus on the involvement of three architects in planning and...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
Professor Paul Richens "Simulating Historic Landscapes - Beckford's Ride"
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When the eccentric and reclusive connoisseur William Beckford (1760-1844), having exhausted the largest inherited fortune in England, finally abandoned his doomed...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
Dr Patrick Malone "A Future for Urban Design"
ABSTRACT:
This paper will examine how urban design might be defined, and how the current confusion of architectural and elemental approaches might be reformed as theorists...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
John Sergeant "Platforms and Displacement as Design Strategy"
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All buildings modify their sites, some radically. There will be other sites from which material came and to which it goes. Carbon and other costs now reward a strategy...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
Professor David Banister "The Sustainable Mobility Paradigm"
ABSTRACT:
This presentation has two main parts. The first questions two of the underlying principles of conventional transport planning on travel as a derived demand and on...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Thu 25 Aug 2011