Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures


2006-11-22 12:00: ‘A wild lion through the window’ – Reflections on studios in Cambridge and Ahmedebad (Nicholas Ray)

2006-11-29 12:15: Does Palladian Architecture exist? (Dr Richard Hewlings)

2007-01-31 12:15: People’s homes: Span in the twenty-first century (Madeleine Adams & Charlie McKeith (Research Design))

2007-02-07 12:15: VivaCity2020: an overview of the urban design decision-making process (Dr Chris Boyko (Lancaster University))

2007-02-14 12:15: Decision making in design and service practice (Dr Julie Jupp (Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge))

2007-02-21 12:15: “Greasepaint, glamour and Gropius”: modern architecture in the heyday of regional Rep, 1945-75 (Elain Harwood (English Heritage))

2007-02-28 12:15: CABE’s take on design research: can it be quantified? (Elanor Warwick (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment))

2007-03-07 12:15: Designing Dynamic Environments for the Performing Arts (Anne Dye (The Martin Centre))

2007-03-14 12:15: Adolf Loos, Architecturelessness, and Architectural Art (Professor Joseph Masheck (Hofstra University))

2008-01-23 13:00: A new age in town building (Ben Bolgar, Prince's Foundation)

2008-01-30 13:00: Environmental implications of buildings equipped with wireless internet (Ji-Young Song, The Martin Centre)

2008-02-06 13:00: Human perceptions of urban density (Vicky Cheng, the Martin Centre)

2008-02-13 13:00: On a room with underfloor air supply (Dr Torwong Chenvidyakarn, Dept of Architecture)

2008-02-20 13:00: Portable : Flexible : Architecture (Professor Robert Kronenberg, University of Liverpool)

2008-02-27 09:00: Sustain-Ability: a conference to mark 40 years of the Martin Centre (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-03-05 13:00: Sir Basil Spence: architecture, tradition and modernity (Dr Louise Campbell, University of Warwick)

2008-04-30 13:00: Missing Greens: the historiography of British environmental consciousness 1900-1980 (Alan Powers, University of Greenwich)

2008-05-07 13:00: THE NEW STUDIO BUILDING:  CONSTRUCTION FOR COMFORT (Meredith Bowles (Mole Architects) and Phil Armitage (Max Fordham))

2008-05-14 13:00: Frontier Urbanism in Contested Jerusalem (Dr Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge))

2008-05-21 13:00: Remote sensing for the built environment (Keiko Saito, Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment)

2010-04-21 13:15: Sustainability and the traditional architecture of Japan: cities that could revert to summer grass (Professor Martin Morris, Chiba University, Japan)

2010-04-28 13:15: The Isle of Dogs: four development waves, five planning models, twelve plans, thirty five years, and a renaissance - of sorts (Professor Matthew Carmona, Head of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London)

2010-05-05 13:15: A future zero carbon built environment? (Professor Philip Jones, Head of School and Director of Architectural Science, Welsh School of Architecture)

2010-05-12 13:15: Ecological design and planning (Dr. Ken Yeang, Chairperson, Llewellyn Davies Yeang)

2010-05-19 13:15: A placemaker’s guide to building community (Professor Nabeel Hamdi, Emeritus Professor, Oxford Brooks University)

2010-05-26 13:15: Housing the poor in Latin America: changing attitudes towards urban informality (Dr. Felipe Hernández, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-02 13:15: Constructing the contemporary city: informal housing processes in Latin America (Dr. Peter Kellett, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle)

2010-06-09 13:15: A new theory of the city (Professor Bill Hillier, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory, University College London)