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Norman Foster "to assemble the best minds" to rebuild Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

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British architect Norman Foster has met with the mayor of Kharkiv to discuss the rebuilding of the Ukrainian city following extensive damage suffered during the Russian invasion. Top: the city has been heavily damaged in the war. The first step would be a city masterplan".

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Tongji University's College of Architecture and Urban Planning marks 70 years with Global Dean's Forum

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Promotion: Shanghai 's Tongji University is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its College of Architecture and Urban Planning with the Global Dean's Forum, a day-long event bringing together 11 major architecture schools from around the world. The school is now also starting to recruit post-doctoral researchers from abroad.

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V&A's Tropical Modernism exhibition explores "the politics behind the concrete"

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Nkrumah, who sometimes sketched designs for the buildings he wanted on napkins, created the first architecture school in sub-Saharan Africa to train a new generation of African architects, and this institution has partnered with us on a five-year research project into tropical modernism."

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Architecture education needs "decolonisation and decarbonisation" says London School of Architecture head Neal Shasore

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At the same time however, allegations of sexist and racist treatment in the industry have become more widespread, as in the case of The Bartlett School of Architecture. The LSA provides students with a two-year postgraduate programme on subjects including designing cities and critical theory. Diversity and inclusion is hard".

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