Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 41st Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures


2010-10-06 13:15: Cinematic Mapping: the observation and documentation of  urban space (Dr Andong Lu, Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-13 13:15: Facing up to rising sea levels: Retreat? Defend? Attack? (Charlie Peel  Building Futures, RIBA, London)

2010-10-20 13:15: Patterns and Parameters (Alex ElY  Partner, mæ Architects, London)

2010-10-27 13:15: Urban Morphology and Design Theory: open up from the inside  out (Dr Karl Kropf  Director of Urban Design, Studio REAL, Oxford)

2010-11-03 13:15: Pushing the Environmental Boundaries of Architecture:  Three Recent Projects (Peter Clegg  Senior Partner, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Bath)

2010-11-10 13:15: Urban Microclimate Studies - Numerical and Experimental (Dr. Runming Yao  Reader in Sustainable Built Environments, School of Construction Management and Engineering,  University of Reading)

2010-11-17 13:15: In Search of Democratic Architecture -Towards a Working Thesis on the Public Good as the Ethical Basis of Architectural Practice (Professor. Tom Spector Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-24 13:15: UK Housing Policy: Putting Carbon to the Fore? (Dr. Jason Palmer   Director, Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd., Cambridge)

2011-01-26 13:15: From Terra Nullius to Terra Incognita and Back: Israeli Architect in Africa 1956-1973 (Dr. Haim Yacobi Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-02 13:15: Simulating Historic Landscapes - Beckford's Ride (Prof. Paul Richens Professor of Architectural Computing, Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture, University of Bath)

2011-02-16 13:15: A Future for Urban Design (Dr. Patrick Malone. Director of Arcitalia, Italy. Former Director of Masters Course in Urban Design, University of Manchester)

2011-02-23 13:15: Platforms and Displacement as Design Strategy (John Sergeant Former Lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge)

2011-03-02 13:15: Its Form Will Follow Your Performance (Alex Schweder La Guest Lecturer, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, US)

2011-03-07 18:00: Urban Metabolism at MIT (Prof. John Fernandez, Associate Professor, Building Technology, Architecture Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US)

2011-03-09 13:15: CANCELLED - Responding to Urban Disasters: Learning from the Haiti Earthquake (Prof. David Sanderson Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University)

2011-03-16 13:15: The Sustainable Mobility Paradigm (Prof. David Banister Professor of Transport Studies and Director of the Transport Studies Unit, Oxford University)

2011-04-27 13:15: Fabric Formed Concrete: Studies of a Disruptive Technology (Professor Remo Pedreschi    Professor of Architectural Technology, Architecture: School of Arts, Culture and Environment (ACE), University of Edinburgh)

2011-05-04 13:15: Learning from Hong Kong:  On Possibilities for a Contemporary Urban Vernacular (Prof. Thomas Chung, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-11 13:15: Racing the Growth of Cities: Investigations of Spatial Patterns and Determinant Forces (Dr Kiril Stanilov Marie Curie Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-18 13:15: Responding to Urban Disasters: Learning from the Haiti Earthquake (Prof. David Sanderson    Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University)

2011-05-25 13:15: Pushing the Environmental Boundaries of Architecture: Three Recent Projects (Peter Clegg   Senior Partner, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Bath)

2011-06-01 13:15: The SENSEable City (Prof.  Carlo Ratti   Director of SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2011-06-08 13:15: Thermal Delight in Open Spaces: Can It Enhance our Adaptive Capacity under Climate Change? (Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou   Professor in Sustainable Architecture, Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent)