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
Members of the Architectural Association including David Adjaye and Richard Rogers have called for an emergency meeting to reverse the organisation’s recent redundancy announcements
A design for a school damaged in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and a proposal to solve the housing crisis by building ‘room boxes’ on London’s terraced streets have been named the world’s best student projects of 2017 by the RIBA
Edward Denison of the Bartlett and UK-based independent researcher Guang Yu Ren have won the 2017 RIBA President’s Medal for Research
Leading architects including Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers, Phyllis Lambert, Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma have signed a letter saying the AA’s planned redundancy drive could prove fatal to the institution
Bromley Council has launched a student contest to design a £35,000 canopy in Beckenham Green, south London
David Porter, president of the Architectural Association, responds to recent AJ news stories
The Architectural Association is facing an international backlash over its plans to make its entire publications and exhibitions departments redundant
Leading figures including Joseph Rykwert have voiced alarm at plans by the Architectural Association to make 16 staff redundant, including entire publications and exhibitions departments
A wildlife hide has been designed and built by students from the University of Newcastle on the shores of Kielder’s Bakethin Nature Reserve in Northumberland
The number of students accepted on architecture, building and planning university courses has increased by 6 per cent since last year, according to the latest figures
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