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Defined by its difference: Architectural Association Student Show 2023
The core project of this Projects Review seems to be to distil hundreds of voices into something more legible and coherent
Students
News about and degree show reviews of the UK’s schools of architecture, including the Bartlett and the Architectural Association. We also celebrate students’ work with the AJ Student Prize
Reclaiming the city: London School of Architecture Student Show 2023
From retrofitted housing estates to major interventions in public space that seek to decommercialise the City, each student’s dreams for an alternative London play out on the walls of this former bus depot
‘The SpaceX of architecture schools’: UEL Student Show 2023
This year’s University of East London degree show exhibits a cohort of future architects who have the tools to design for a climate emergency
Why the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action matters in architecture
The US Supreme Court’s decision to ban consideration of race in college admissions will reduce opportunities for greater representation within architecture – and cause ripples in the UK, writes Dennis Austin
Review: Cardiff Metropolitan University’s first-ever architecture student show
As the first graduates emerge from Wales’s newest architecture course, an opportunity exists for future students to optimise the course’s multidisciplinary facilities, writes Emma Halford
Exam-marking chaos leaves architecture graduates without degrees
Thousands of students face finishing university without a degree as the result of an exam-marking boycott by members of the University and College Union (UCU)
An antidote to poisonous viewpoints: Manchester School of Architecture Student Show 2023
The Manchester School of Architecture degree show is a testament to how ethics in education can inspire a new generation of talented, engaged and thoughtful architects
Engagement with real-life clients: University of Strathclyde Student Show 2023
This year’s degree show demonstrates the importance, when it comes to creating great architects, of an awareness that buildings are made for people, writes Fran Williams
Scrapping Parts 1, 2 and 3 will undermine architectural education, says RIBA
The RIBA has called the ARB’s proposed education shake-up ‘a mistake’ that risks ‘undermining’ architectural training
AJ exclusive: Which architect ‘won’ scrapped Mac contest?
The AJ can reveal the architects that scored highest in the bungled search for a team to lead the Glasgow School of Art’s £62 million restoration of its fire-gutted Mackintosh building