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Helping secure Asmara’s UNESCO World Heritage status

Decades of research and consultancy by Professor Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren helped in achieving UNESCO World Heritage Site status for Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

Degree’s of Exchange: Exploring Community, Culture and Place through the lens of Materiality

Through an architectural and material intervention this programme aims to explore multiplicity within identity and culture by developing a language of architecture that helps Tyler Ebanja to investigate and reveal ‘who I am’...

LGBTQ+ nightlife in London

Initiated in 2016 by Dr Ben Campkin and Lo Marshall, in collaboration with community groups the Raze Collective and the Queer Spaces Network, this research project focuses on nightlife spaces important to London's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) communities since 1986.

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Architecture Without Architects

Dr Kwame Addae-Dappah presents in “Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture”, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon.

Will I cause harm?: Practising Ethics Guides for built environment research

Dr Emmaunel Osuteye presents a guide on how to practice ethics in the built environment.

A Global History of Architecture

Associate Professor Felicity Atekpe presents ‘A Global History of Architecture’ a book which changed the way architectural history is viewed, studied and taught.

"The Role Of Ephemerality In The Queer Nightclub"

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"It’s always varying degrees of terror"

Isaac Nanabeyin Simpson on an architecture between cultures.

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“Asmara’s inscription has also challenged international perceptions of Eritrea, where it is often misrepresented as being in perpetual conflict”

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