For those with an interest in bottom-up spatial practices, Teddy Cruz is a familiar name. For over two decades, the Guatemalan-born architect has researched conflict zones and cross-border urbanism, most…
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From its 19th century grid expansion devised by the Catalan engineer that coined the term ‘urbanization’, to the urban renewal projects led by Manuel de Solà-Morales and Oriol Bohigas during…
Now that the New Urban Agenda–the world’s designated blueprint for sustainable urban development adopted at Habitat III last month–has been signed and sealed, the focus on the historic agreement has…
We are excited to announce the second edition of our Development by Design conference, an event series organized in collaboration with Roca and conceived by our master program to highlight…
This week our third-time visiting professor Nabeel Hamdi is back at our campus to lead his workshop on Participatory Urban Planning. The Oxford Brookes professor, considered one of the earliest…
The International Organization for Migration, the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration, is looking to fill four positions asap to reinforce its shelter operations in areas affected by…
The final draft of the New Urban Agenda (NUA), a 20-year roadmap to sustainable urban development agreed upon at the Habitat III conference in Quito last week, features the word…
As the refugee crisis intensifies across European borders, one of its most notorious epicenters, the Calais “Jungle” refugee camp, is being evacuated as we speak, hours before its pending demolition….
A staggering 65 million forcibly displaced people around the world, over 21 million of them refugees, has pushed the the issue of shelter beyond the humanitarian sphere and into the…
On October 17th and November 11th, our master program will be hosting two separate roundtable discussions aimed at shedding light on the urban and architectural issues surrounding the refugee crisis….