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05/12/2025

The School of Architecture is now part of the School Architecture and Landscape. We are retiring this account and will no longer be monitoring its mentions/DMs. Follow us over on Instagram at architecturesheffield_sal for the latest updates from the school.

13/06/2025

The Sheffield School of Architecture and Landscape annual exhibition is less than two weeks away.

From the 20 June 2025 we will be showcasing the diverse and vibrant work of our students in the Arts Tower and online at sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/summer-show-2025.

Follow us on instagram to see a selection of the students’ work on display and to find out more about their projects.

05/06/2025

Get ready, London! Our talented students are showcasing their incredible work at Old Spitalfields Market from 30 June to 2 July. Come celebrate with us at our daily drinks reception, starting at 5pm each day. Don't miss it!

04/06/2025

SAVE THE DATE!
Join us for our Summer Show opening on 20 June 2025. Come and see the work of our students from Y1 to MArch. We will open with our drinks and prize giving from 6pm!

25/03/2025

Join us tonight for a talk by Olga Touloumi, Associate Professor of Architectural History at Bard College.

Drawing from her book Assembly by Design, this talk, entitled 'Impossible Charts or the Architecture of Security Power', will present architects’ and diplomats’ designs for the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, where the UN officially came into existence during two months of public negotiations.

will discuss the role that architecture played in building the new organisation, by resolving the paradox of a global assembly. The result was the emergence of a new type of space, the “global interior,” a diplomatic spatial apparatus formed in the intersection of debates on media governmentality, security power, and corporate technique.

She will situate those spaces within debates on liberal democracies, the public sphere and multilateral internationalism. These spaces, originally designed as the anchors of the UN Headquarters, she argues, framed the political activity of the United Nations but also endowed the organisation with metaphors to invoke on a global scale, while concealing liberal political and economic forces installing new asymmetries in the background.

When: Tuesday 25 March
Where: Arts Tower, Room 13.19

20/03/2025

Join us for the next in our Architecture and Landscape Architecture Research Matters talks.

For this talk we will be joined by Associate Professor of Architectural History at Bard College Olga Touloumi who will give a lecture entitled 'Impossible Charts or the Architecture of Security Power'.

Drawing from her book Assembly by Design, this talk will present architects’ and diplomats’ designs for the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, where the UN officially came into existence during two months of public negotiations.

will discuss the role that architecture played in building the new organisation, by resolving the paradox of a global assembly. The result was the emergence of a new type of space, the “global interior,” a diplomatic spatial apparatus formed in the intersection of debates on media governmentality, security power, and corporate technique.

She will situate those spaces within debates on liberal democracies, the public sphere and multilateral internationalism. These spaces, originally designed as the anchors of the UN Headquarters, she argues, framed the political activity of the United Nations but also endowed the organisation with metaphors to invoke on a global scale, while concealing liberal political and economic forces installing new asymmetries in the background.

When: Tuesday 25 March
Where: Arts Tower, Room 13.19

18/03/2025

Join us this evening for Beyond the Capitalocene: Design Practices for a Planetary Crisis by Jose Alfredo Ramirez Galindo.

Contemporary planetary urbanisation is structured by policies that respond to the dominant capitalist system governing our societies, economies and ecologies, and which have been shaped by human relations of power, production and environment-making (colonial and imperialistic).

In this lecture, José Alfredo Ramírez Galindo, programme head of Landscape Urbanism and director of at the , will present examples of projects and design thesis beyond the design of single buildings or pieces of urban design.

In both his academic and professional practices develops spatial policies that directly impact urban and rural landscapes: design strategies and models, innovative regulatory plans and visual decision-making tools that integrate design within world-ecology frameworks and planetary urbanisation processes.

When: Tuesday 18 March, 5pm
Where: Arts Tower, Room 13.19

Image caption: Alejandra Iturrizaga, Priyanka Awatramani, Emily Bowerman, Cultivating Commons, biobased retrofit proposal for BGS, LU 2024. Image by Alejandra Iturrizaga Andrich, May 2024.

13/03/2025

Join us on Tuesday for the next talk in our Architecture and Landscape Architecture Research Matters series.

Contemporary planetary urbanisation is structured by policies that respond to the dominant capitalist system governing our societies, economies and ecologies, and which have been shaped by human relations of power, production and environment-making (colonial and imperialistic).

In this lecture, entitled 'Beyond the Capitalocene: Design Practices for a Planetary Crisis', José Alfredo Ramírez Galindo, programme head of Landscape Urbanism and director of at the , will present examples of projects and design thesis beyond the design of single buildings or pieces of urban design.

In both his academic and professional practices develops spatial policies that directly impact urban and rural landscapes: design strategies and models, innovative regulatory plans and visual decision-making tools that integrate design within world-ecology frameworks and planetary urbanisation processes.

When: Tuesday 18 March, 5pm
Where: Arts Tower, Room 13.19

Image caption: Alejandra Iturrizaga, Priyanka Awatramani, Emily Bowerman, Cultivating Commons, biobased retrofit proposal for BGS, LU 2024. Image by Alejandra Iturrizaga Andrich, May 2024.

11/03/2025

Join us at 5pm today in Room 13.19 for our next ALARM talk. Today we will be hearing from Professor Clare Rishbeth and architect and co-founder of@we_made_that Holly Lewis.

Clare Rishbeth and Holly Lewis will discuss participatory research methods used to understand ‘feelings in place’ – a process adapted for effective use in academia and practice that resulted from a year-long research partnership between the architectural practice and landscape architecture academic, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK.

This will feature the methodological approaches developed through Clare’s recent secondment to We Made That. This includes how participatory methods used in academia to understand ‘feelings in place’ can be adapted for effective use in practice. This was tested predominantly through a Women’s Safety Audit pilot, commissioned by Transport for London and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

10/03/2025

Join us in Arts Tower Lecture Theatre 06 at 5pm today to hear a talk from our Professor Emeritus James Hitchmough.

Since retiring from the Department of Landscape Architecture in 2022, James Hitchmough has spent the majority of his time creating a garden in the Somerset countryside. In this talk he will flesh out a picture of the processes involved in this and its meaning.

Although landscape architecture sometimes has an uneasy relationship with the private garden, he believes that gardens, even with inherent scale and context differences, can contribute to aspects of landscape architecture. In particular, gardens provide insights into how intrinsically greater levels of ‘caring’, ‘meaning’, ‘working iteratively’ (in the longer term), and ‘diversity and complexity’, might provide useful reflection for thought and practice in the public landscape.

07/03/2025

In our second ALARM talk of the week, Professor Clare Rishbeth will be joined by architect and co-founder of We Made That Holly Lewis to discuss the methodological approaches developed through Clare’s recent secondment to .

In this talk they will discuss participatory research methods used to understand ‘feelings in place’ – a process adapted for effective use in academia and practice that resulted from a year-long research partnership between the architectural practice and landscape architecture academic, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK.

This will also include how participatory methods used in academia to understand ‘feelings in place’ can be adapted for effective use in practice. This was tested predominantly through a Women’s Safety Audit pilot, commissioned by Transport for London and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

When: Tuesday 11 March 2025, 5pm
Where: Arts Tower, Room 13.19

06/03/2025

Join us next week to hear from Professor Emeritus James Hitchmough.

In his talk entitled ' Does making a garden have anything useful to say to landscape architectural thought and practice?', James will talk about the garden he has been creating in the Somerset countryside since he retired from the school in 2022. He will flesh out a picture of the processes involved in this and its meaning. Although landscape architecture sometimes has an uneasy relationship with the private garden, he believes that gardens, even with inherent scale and context differences, can contribute to aspects of landscape architecture. In particular, gardens provide insights into how intrinsically greater levels of ‘caring’, ‘meaning’, ‘working iteratively’ (in the longer term), and ‘diversity and complexity’, might provide useful reflection for thought and practice in the public landscape.

When: Monday 10 March 2025, 5pm
Where: Arts Tower, Lecture Theatre 6

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