The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Applications to study architecture continue to rise
The number of people applying to study architecture, building and planning at university is at its highest level in four years, according to new figures
Students
News about and degree show reviews of the UK’s schools of architecture, including the Bartlett and the Architectural Association. We also celebrate students’ work with the AJ Student Prize
‘One size doesn’t fit all’: Kent School of Architecture Student Show 2022
Ellie Duffy visits Kent School of Architecture and Planning’s degree show and finds that there are many different ways of being an architect
The Bartlett scandal has shown how dangerous groupthink can be
A culture of subservience and conformity in architectural education is the thing both UCL and the RIBA should be challenging, argues Sarah Maafi
‘Quality over quantity’: Northumbria Student Show 2022
Jane Redmond of FaulkerBrowns visits Northumbria University's architecture student show this year
‘Socially conscious’: CSM Student Show 2022
Aoi Phillips visits Central Saint Martins' student show at their Granary Square campus
Bob Allies to chair relaunched architecture faculty in Rome
Allies and Morrison founder Bob Allies is to head the newly re-established British School at Rome’s Faculty of Architecture, leading a team of big-name architects
‘Learning through making’: University of Greenwich Student Show 2022
It is refreshing to see landscape architecture courses given the same space and gravitas as architecture at the Greenwich School of Design degree show, writes Harriet Jennings
‘No frills but on the money’: Leeds Beckett Student Show 2022
In the latest of this year’s student show reviews, Richard Waite discovers Leeds Beckett University’s students are rising to the retrofit challenge with timely and co-ordinated responses to the climate crisis
‘A strong emphasis on making’: Kingston University Student Show 2022
Fran Williams reviews this year’s Kingston School of Art's student show and appreciates its emphasis on collaboration
Bartlett investigation has encouraged ‘witch-hunt’, say academics
A letter signed by 24 academics, architects and writers has said the publication of the independent report into discrimination and bullying at the Bartlett School of Architecture was ‘not consistent with a culture of open and honest discussion’