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Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact

Bartlett Professor of Planning receives first prize for outstanding international impact

17 May 2013

Fulong Wu, Professor of Planning at The Bartlett, was awarded first prize in the Outstanding International Impact category by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on 14 May. He received a trophy along with £10,000 to promote the economic and social impact of research.

Bartlett Professor part of team on shortlisted project for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Bartlett Professor part of team on shortlisted project for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

13 May 2013

Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at The Bartlett School of Planning, and Vice-Dean of Research for the Bartlett Faculty, worked with the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART) on the Birzeit regeneration project which has just been shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Their key contribution ...

Bartlett Summer Show 2013

Bartlett Summer Show 2013

We are pleased to announce that this year's Summer Show will be opened by the renowned French architect, Claude Parent, on Friday 21 June 2013. 

INNOVATION - The Bartlett Summer Foundation Course

INNOVATION - The Bartlett Summer Foundation Course

The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Summer Foundation course, starting on 29th July 2013, is now open for applications. The programme, which can be studied over a 5-week or an 8-week period, is ...

SmoutAllen featured in The Architectural Review

SmoutAllen featured in The Architectural Review

Bartlett School of Architecture Senior Lecturers Mark Smout and Laura Allen (SmoutAllen) along with Sir Peter Cook are featured in a special May edition of The Architectural Review (AR) titled, Architecture & Representation.

Urban Laboratory to launch Urban Pamphleteer

Urban Laboratory to launch Urban Pamphleteer


The UCL Urban Laboratory will next week launch Urban Pamphleteer, a new series of publications that confront key contemporary urban questions from diverse perspectives. Written in a direct and accessible tone, these pamphlets ...

AY Architects' Camden nursery in AJ

AY Architects' Camden nursery in AJ


Montpelier Nursery designed by The Bartlett's Yeoryia Manolopoulou and AY Architects' has been reviewed by Sarah Wigglesworth in AJ. Wigglesworth describes the Camden-based nursery as "...an enchanting and imaginative building that perfectly ...

Communications Internship at The Bartlett

Communications Internship at The Bartlett

Are you interested in a career in communications? Have you got excellent written and verbal communication skills, an eye for a newsworthy story, and an interest in digital communications channels?



The Bartlett academics to play role in new UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering

The Bartlett academics to play role in new UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering

The announcement of a new Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering at UCL, will bring leading engineers and scientists together to address some of the major engineering challenges facing the world.

Forthcoming Bartlett Lectures in Asia and launch of UCL Built Environment Clubs

Forthcoming Bartlett Lectures in Asia and launch of UCL Built Environment Clubs

Bob Sheil, Professor of Architecture and Design through Production at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL will be visiting Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore between 18 and 29 March. The trip is ...

Members of The Bartlett guest edit RIBA Journal

Members of The Bartlett guest edit RIBA Journal

Bartlett senior Teaching Fellow Matthew Butcher of architectural practice Post Works,  alongside Bartlett graduates, Pernilla Ohrstedt and Rashid Ali have guest edited and contributed to the latest issue of the RIBA Journal.  The ...

Bartlett student wins Cornish pavillion competition

Bartlett student wins Cornish pavillion competition

Unit 21's 5th year student, Alex Gazetas, has won the Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Pavilion Competition.

The Bartlett announces £110k worth of masters scholarships

The Bartlett announces £110k worth of masters scholarships

The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment is offering MSc, MA or MArch students 20 scholarships, each worth £5,000, to be used as partial fee remittance for study in 2013 ...

The Bartlett amongst leading academics, businesses and entrepreneurs on Mayor’s “Smart London’ board

The Bartlett amongst leading academics, businesses and entrepreneurs on Mayor’s “Smart London’ board

The Mayor’s Office today announced the board, which is made up of ‘a top line-up of experts’ and includes Prof. Alan Penn, Dean of The Bartlett and Professor of Architectural and Urban ...

British Exploratory Land Archive (BELA)

British Exploratory Land Archive (BELA)


Bartlett Lecturers Mark Smout and Laura Allen in collaboration with Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG have launched a new project – the ‘British Exploratory Land Archive (BELA)’ – which is now on exhibition at the RIBA ...

Ant ballet and PhD theme tunes: The Bartlett Showoff Round Two

Ant ballet and PhD theme tunes: The Bartlett Showoff Round Two

Back by popular demand, The Bartlett Showoff once again took to the stage last Tuesday to showcase some of faculty’s most exciting and extrovert students, staff and research through a range of ...

EIB and The Bartlett to cooperate on new infrastructure finance course

EIB and The Bartlett to cooperate on new infrastructure finance course

The European Investment Bank and The Bartlett have agreed to work together to support a new post-graduate course in Infrastructure Investment and Finance.

The Bartlett's Wates House to undergo a £12m refurbishment

The Bartlett's Wates House to undergo a £12m refurbishment

Wates House, the current home of The Bartlett School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Planning is set to undergo a £12m refurbishment, starting in July 2013.

Bartlett Staff at Prototyping Architecture Conference

Bartlett Staff at Prototyping Architecture Conference

Bartlett staff Professor Bob Sheil, James O'Leary, Ruairi Glynn, and Dirk Krolikowski, and students Karagkiozi Zoi, and Themistocleous Theodoros are each presenting papers on new work at the Prototyping Architecture Conference at ...

PhD Research Projects 2013 | Conference and Exhibition

PhD Research Projects 2013 | Conference and Exhibition

Conference: Tuesday 5 March, 9.30 – 18:30 (Exhibition and bar from 19:00)
Exhibition continues until Friday 22 March

Celebrating Chinese New Year: A Q&A session for prospective students

Celebrating Chinese New Year: A Q&A session for prospective students


To start off the year of the snake, here at The Bartlett we are offering prospective Chinese students the opportunity to pose questions about studying and living in London to two of our ...

International interdisciplinary ‘Sexuality at Home’ event held at The Bartlett

International interdisciplinary ‘Sexuality at Home’ event held at The Bartlett

Recognising that gender has long been a framework of research in architectural history, Brent Pilkey, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, lead the facilitation of ‘Sexuality at Home’, a two-day event which focused ...

Professor Frédéric Migayrou to judge 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award

Professor Frédéric Migayrou to judge 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award


The Bartlett’s Professor of Architecture and Director of Architecture & Design at the Centre Pompidou, Frédéric Migayrou, will judge this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award as part of an ...

Latest UCL Built Environment Club launched in Singapore

Latest UCL Built Environment Club launched in Singapore

The Director of Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Lay Bee Yap was joined by UCL Vice Provost (International) Prof Michael Worton, The Bartlett’s Prof Alexi Marmot and Chadwick Professor of Civil ...

Foster + Partners to 3D print structures on the moon

Foster + Partners to 3D print structures on the moon

Architects from Foster + Partners are working with the European Space Agency to explore the possibilities of 3D printing buildings on the moon using lunar soil.

The practice has designed a four-person residence that ...