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The Newbridge Project wins Adaptive Reuse Award at Newcastle City Council's Lord Mayor's Design Awards
Jack Mutton, at Topo Architects, worked on the redevelopment project
Geograpy and Planning graduate Katie Honey awarded first place in the UGRG Dissertation Prize
Katie's dissertation "Get the London Look: The Geographies of London-Based Beauty Brands and Branding in Response to Social and Cultural Change" took the top spot
Patsy Healey Obituary
We pay tribute to the inspiring Professor Emeritus Patsy Healey (1940 - 2024)
The Common Room and Newcastle University are commemorating five Inspiring Pioneers with a plaque in their honour.
The latest commemorative plaque is set to be unveiled on the Tyne Bridge, in honour of Dorothy Buchanan who was a member of the design team for the bridge which opened in 1928
Design Your High Street
AUP Stage 3 students are running a workshop on Thursday 22 February with local architect firm Harper Perry
Field trip to London with Architecture and Urban Planning Stage 2 students
The trip involved talks from St Clements Community Land Trust and a visit to the Childrens Centre in Somers Town
Drawing of the Year Awards 2024
Entries are now open to the annual Archisource drawing competition
Cap-a-Pie Translating Ferro/Transforming Knowledges
These audio theatre shows are inspired by the work of researchers from Translating Ferro/Translating Knowledges, or TF/TK, a joint Brazil/UK research project. The TF/TK team are developing new ideas for how buildings can be constructed in responsible and just ways.
Engaging Children and Young People in Planning
Teresa Strachan's new book using her work on Canny Planners and YES Planning will be published on 25 March 2024
Mark Shucksmith discusses "A Wellbeing Framework for the North of Tyne" project
This project won the University's Engaging with Policy & Practice award at the Engagement and Place Awards 2023
Applications open for the Architects Benevolent Society's Hardship Fund
Are you in your final semester but at risk of not being able to complete your course because of financial pressure?
Dr Gabriel Silvestre is a guest on the Minor Revisions podcast
The afterlives of urban megaprojects: Grounding policy models and recirculating knowledge through domestic networks”
APL graduate Clare Bond receives Thornton Education Trust award
Clare Bond has been named joint winner of "Individual of the Year - Emerging" in the Thornton Education Trust Inspire Future Generations Awards for her work at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
MArch graduate wins top architecture award
Chloe Dalby has won the prestigious Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing at Part 2 in this year’s Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President’s Medals.
Northern Bureau for Architecture - James Longfield
The Architects Journal spotlights the Northern Bureau for Architecture in its latest practice profile
Multispace: Architecture at the Dawn of the Metaverse
Owen Hopkins is the Guest Editor for the latest issue of Architectural Design
Knitting the Future of Architecture using Fungal Mycelium
An arch made from fungal mycelium, grown within 3D knitted fabric formwork, is on display at the Design Museum, London.
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
Applications for the fellowships are now open to researchers within 4 years of PhD examination
World Mental Health Day 2023
APL held a Tea, Talk & Crafts event on Tuesday 10 October to support World Mental Health Day
Building Futures Bursaries
As we celebrate the first graduate on the bursary scheme, three more firms join to support the next generation of architects
AJ Student Prize 2023
Congratulations to Tsz Ying Ella Hui and Senjeeven Mungapen on being our AJ Student Prize nominees
Landscape Institute Awards 2023
Two Master of Landscape Architecture graduates shortlisted in the Landscape Institute Awards 2023
Professor Jianfei Zhu's Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture shortlisted for Colvin Prize
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain have announced the shortlist
Policy paper calls for Labour to renew the public planning system
A new policy paper to which Newcastle researchers have contributed calls on the Labour Party to embrace a reinvigorated public planning system.
Women in Property Yorkshire & North East Regional Student Awards 2023
Students Lara Baughan, Elise Barjat and Zoe Yip were the APL nominees
RIBA North East Student Awards 2023
Congratulations to Part 2 winner Anastasia Cockerill and Part 1 highly commended Adam Schell
Sophie Stanton receives RTPI North East Young Planner of the Year Award 2023
Sophie is a MSc Urban Planning graduate
Charlotte Veal and Maggie Roe join the International Association for Landscape Ecology 2023 World Congress
The IALE 2023 World Congress is taking place 10 - 15 July in Nairobi, Kenya
Master of Landscape Architecture programme fully accredited by the Landscape Institute
Our 2 year landscape architecture masters degree now has full accreditation status
Stage 2 Planning Students travelled to Germany for their study visit
17 students attended the study visit accompanied by tutors Clive Davies and Neil Powe
Neveen Hamza is elected as the Chair of the International Building Performance Simulation Association
The IBPSA is a non-profit international society of building performance simulation researchers, developers and practitioners, dedicated to improving the built environment
Simin Davoudi features on the RTPI Planning for Tomorrow podcast series
Joined by Kelly Moore, Secretary General of Commonwealth Association of Planners, Simin discusses how Planning is deployed around the world in the fight against climate change.
Global Urban Planning Education workshop
APL hosted a one-day workshop to discuss the contribution of transnational courses in urban planning programmes
APL Degree Show 2023
The annual celebration of work by students at School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape goes on show Friday 16 June.
Global Urban Education Consortium
Gabriel Silvestre and William Otchere-Darko co-ordinated a 2 day workshop with colleagues from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and the School of Planning and Architecture Delhi
Together: co-housing, community and the city
Work developed by our current BA (Hons) Architecture Stage 2 students is on display in bus shelters along Shields Road, Byker
Creative engagement by 3rd year Architecture and Urban Planning students on Clayton Street
Clay Day was a playful and festive engagement day intended to deepen the understanding and research on Clayton Street
Professor Mark Shucksmith is awarded Engagement and Place Award
His project "A Wellbeing Framework for the North of Tyne" won the Engaging with Policy and Practice Award
Launch of new research group The Landscape Collaboratory
Co-directors Maggie Roe and Charlotte Veal introduced the key research themes at the launch event
GSSArchitecture joins Building Futures bursary scheme at Newcastle University for students from diverse backgrounds to study architecture
Students on the scheme have their fees waived for their three-year undergraduate study and receive an annual contribution to their living costs.
The Farrell Centre is now open
The Farrell Centre is a new centre for architecture and cities, based at Newcastle University
Open Studios 2023
An opportunity for architectural practices to open their doors for students to informally visit and experience a variety of practices
The Living Room by the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment
This installation features in the opening More with Less exhibition at the Farrell Centre
Stage 5 MArch students work with local primary school in learning lab module
This outreach and action research module is part of the Master of Architecture programme
Dr Ang Gao shortlisted for the BAFTSS Practice Research Award in the Doctoral Category
Dr Ang Gao studied her PhD at APL, supervised by Andy Law and Ian MacDonald
The People's Plinth at the Farrell Centre
Do you have an object that helps tell the story of Tyneside?
Professor Maggie Roe and Dr Niki Black contribute to the Net Zero Pathway in Calcutta, Bengal
The decarbonisation policy has used case studies from the UK and India to inform its contents
From Newcastle Podcast Episode 5.3 The Farrell Centre
A new public space for architecture and cities with Owen Hopkins
Comment: Rural poverty is getting worse – and welfare harder to access
Writing for The Conversation, Professor Mark Shucksmith discusses the issues facing people living in poverty in rural areas.
Niki Black wins best photo in NU Sustainability Festival
A Sustainable Future? The Sundarbans delta, Bangladesh
Karl Mok stars in BBC's Interior Design Masters
APL graduate and tutor in BA Architecture Karl Mok is one of 10 contestants in the fourth series of Interior Design Masters
29% Equal Podcast
29% Equal is a podcast celebrating significant women who have shaped how we practice architecture today
Design Competition NUAS x NAS
This student-led initiative was held jointly by Newcastle and Northumbria's Architecture Societies on Friday 3 February
Rural Poverty Today: Experiences of Social Exclusion in Rural Britain
Professor Mark Shucksmith has co-authored this new book, due to be published on 22 February
Teaching adaptive reuse
Daniel Burn, leader of MArch Material Change studio, discusses the 'new from old' project
New book releases from Owen Hopkins, Director of the Farrell Centre
The new publications are now available to buy and pre-order
Special issue 'Climate imaginaries and their mediums' available open access
Edited by Ruth Machen, Elizabeth Brooks and Simin Davoudi
A Space for Sound - The Arches Sound Project
Usue Ruiz Arana and Dan Hill's "The Old Pottery Murmurations" project features in the first week of the sound installation
Architecture lecturer Smajo Bešo receives OBE in New Years Honours list
The OBE was awarded for services to genocide education and commemoration
What is a Good City?
Professor Simin Davoudi is a co-director of the Centre for Researching Cities, which runs the Good City project
Professor Mark Shucksmith on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today
The programme discusses what the Labour party's devolution proposals could mean for rural communities
RENKEI Winter School at Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Cat Button and Dr Helen Underhill attended the Winter School at the beginning of December 2022
Announcing the opening of the Farrell Centre
The Farrell Centre, a new centre for architecture and cities, will open to the public in Spring 2023
New publication released under the GCRF Living Deltas project
The Sustainability, Landscape Context and Water Puppet Culture in the Red River Delta, Vietnam chapter is written by Maggie Roe, Niki Black, Hue Le and Cat Button
Engagement and Place Awards 2022
The Dwellbeing Shieldfield project won the Team Award at this year's ceremony
MArch Symposium "Questioning, Investigating, Experimenting"
MArch students taking Dissertation and Linked Research elective routes presented the results of their work in progress at the November symposium
Professor Steve Graham delivers a video interview for Faculti
He talks about his paper "Elite avenues: Flyovers, freeways and the politics of urban mobility"
APL graduate Dora Farrelly published in the Architectural Review's Letters
Dora Farrelly graduated from the Master of Architecture in 2022
Niki Black to present at the 6th International Conference of Critical Heritage Studies in Santiago
Niki Black's paper will present research as part of the Living Deltas Hub
Professor Geoff Vigar and Dr Abigail Schoneboom celebrate World Planning Day with podcast episode
The 50 Shades of Planning podcast invited the lecturers to discuss "What Town Planners Do"
APL graduate Michelle Martin and PhD candidate John Naylor named in RIBA's 2022 Rising Stars
The annual RIBA journal Rising Stars highlights new and emerging architectural talents
Reflections of dwelling in the landscape: Interactions, landscape justice and participatory research
Maggie Roe presents keynote speech at the 29th Session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape
Professor Simin Davoudi makes keynote speech at the 58th World Planning Congress
Simin Davoudi makes a speech at the International Society of City and Regional Planning and is elected as a trustee of the Town and Country Planning Association.
Edge Conditions put on display
Work from 'Edge Conditions' studio displayed in Edinburgh
Commendation in RTPI's Sir Peter Hall Award for Excellence in Research and Engagement
Book from Dr. Alexander Wilson and Prof. Mark Tewdwr-Jones commended in awards
RIBA Scott Brownrigg Award for Sustainable Development Shortlist Success
Submission from Jay Hallsworth shortlisted to the final three
Degree Show 2022
Joy as APL's degree show returns to physical format in both Newcastle and London
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management celebrate success
2021 Impact Factor released
Professor Simin Davoudi explores the role of spatial planning in addressing climate change
Article published by the Academy of Social Sciences
Success in the Women in Property Yorkshire & North East Awards
Stage 2 Geography and Planning student Anna Maw wins award
Stage 1 Architecture student commended in RIBA's future architects writing competition
Holly Milton's 'Social media trends vs architecture' published by The RIBA Journal
Exhibition celebrates work of first cohort of graduating Master of Landscape Architecture students.
Students exhibit work as course celebrates re-accreditation.
Professor Tim Townshend releases new book
Healthy Cities? Design for Well-being examines how where we live influences our health - for better and for worse...
RTPI Presidential visit to APL
RTPI President Tim Crawshaw visits School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
REF 2021: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning Research
Unit of Assessment recognised for its sustained and collective excellence and growth
How We Live Now: Making Spaces in the North East with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative
Exhibition built around an installation of work by the radical 1980s feminist architecture co-operative Matrix comes to Newcastle
Architecture course ranked in the Global Top 50
Celebration as gains made in QS World University Rankings by Subject
APL student design project shortlisted in the Architects' Journal Small Projects Award 2022
Northumberlandia Pavilion shortlisted in awards.
Teresa Strachan Elected as Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute
Former Senior Lecturer in Planning elected to RTPI's highest professional membership grade.
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
PHD Candidate awarded place on Conception X programme
Mustapha Manga awarded place on Cohort V
Maggie Roe appointed to Defra's Environment Land Management working group.
Co-Director of the Landscape Centre of Research appointed to Defra working group.
RIBA accredited courses unconditionally revalidated.
RIBA visiting board unconditionally recommends the continued validation of courses.
Stage 3 Architecture students produce online exhibition of their Thinking Through Making projects
The variety of pieces for all eight studios were showcased using padlet
Stage 5 students win NAS x NUAS design competition
Tinnie Ma, Jessica Cheng and Matt Tan win joint first place in design competition.
Stage 3 students win NAS x NUAS design competition
Sam Barker and Beth Sprigg win joint first place in design competition.
Research Methods for Global Challenges
Online training platform provides examples of creative research methods.