The Department runs various public exhibition, lecture and seminar programmes throughout the year. The 'Exhibitions' link has information on recent shows in our own Gallery such as 'Eero Saarinen: Between Earth and Sky', as well as details on other local galleries. The 'Architecture Research Seminars' focus on current research within architecture and related fields. The postgraduate community also organize various seminars that feature diverse research agendas. Follow the links below for current and past schedules for both seminar programmes, and for 'Public Lectures'.

The project for the Alignment of Architectural Education in East Central Scotland is a three year collaborative project funded by the Scottish Funding Council involving:

Edinburgh College of Art, Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

University of Edinburgh, Architecture, within the School of Arts, Culture & Environment

Heriot-Watt University, School of the Built Environment

Further information can be found on the Alignment Project website (please see the link below)

News Sheets will be made public on the Architecture website and the Alignment Project website once they become available (please see below for recent News Sheets. A full set of news sheets can be found under the Current Progress link on the Alignment Project website)

Alignment Project Website

The Lunchtime Architecture Research Seminar series is the Department's principal forum for the presentation and discussion of research. It aims to be a generous intellectual environment where diverse research topics and agendas, at various stages of development, might be aired, tested, and explored.

All seminars are held on Fridays between 1:00 and 2:00 PM in:

Seminar Room 2 Minto House Architecture 20 Chambers Street Edinburgh Ph: (0)131 650 2306

Semester 1 programme for 2007/08 to follow.

The Universtiy of Edinburgh offers professional architects the opportunity to attend CPD events drawn from a diverse and stimulating programme of seminars and lectures held by Architecture Staff (Architecture Reseach Seminars) and the Edinburgh University Student Architecture Society (EUSAS).

Please contact Leigh-anne Pieterse on 0131 650 2306 or L.A.Pieterse@ed.ac.ukfor further informaiton/queries. If you would like to be added to the distribution list, please email your email address to Leigh-anne.

Details of current exhibitions and an archive of past exhibitions in the Department's Mathew Gallery can be found through the links below. Click on 'Local Galleries' for other exhibitions in Edinburgh and nearby.

The University of Edinburgh Careers Service
Research Grant success: AHRB/EPSRC
Scotland International Scholarships

Anastasia Karandinou has been awarded 3rd Prize in the Light of Tomorrow International Velux Awards 2006 for Students of Architecture co-sponsored by the UIA and EAAE. Anastasia was an MSc AAD student last year studying with the M Arch students in Shanghai and is now a PhD candidate here.

There were 557 entrants from 51 countries in the World. The top three were presented with their awards along with the 17 Honourable mentions in Gehry's Guggenheim, Bilbao on Monday 23rd October in front of an International audience of about 750 people. The countries who made most submissions for the competition were USA , Spain, France and Brazil with about 70 students from each of these countries submitting. There were 14 submissions from 11 UK schools.