We recently received an update from our students Monica and Diana who are wrapping up their internship with VPUU (Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading) in Cape Town, South Africa. They’ve…
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Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design related to contemporary architecture and urbanism. One of their most well-known projects is the Caracas Metrocable…
If you weren’t able to attend our online information session last month, here’s another chance to find out more about our program. We’ll be hosting our second live information session via…
“Does the current architecture and organisational mix really help to eliminate the ‘silent’ disasters and the everyday risks that now form a major part of how we understand disaster impacts?”…
“In 2010, the UN estimated that 830 million people lived in slums worldwide, and predicted the number to rise to 900 million by 2020. In Latin America, almost 80% of…
This year’s field trip to Medellín made headlines in local media thanks to its collaboration between academia, government and local community and its efforts to stir a debate on the…
If you’re looking for an intensive course to build your knowledge and skills as a designer in promoting spatial justice, the DPU summerLab initiative might be for you. The series…
The Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design (FAED) in the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Rwanda has launched an open international competition to design a prototype for…
“If design in the 20th century gave us the democratization of consumption, design in the 21st century has given us the democratization of production.” In one of this year’s most…
Prospective students will be excited to know that our line-up of visiting professors for the 2013-14 edition of the masters course features new faculty member Nabeel Hamdi, a renowned architect…