Due to the current pandemic, the School of Architecture has been unable to hold events.
2021 Events
Public lectures and talks
Student public lecture series
Each academic year, students invite practitioners to speak at our student-run public lecture series. These lectures encourage conversation around architecture in communities around Reading.
2019 – 20 Lecture series (PDF – 0.40MB)
2018 – 19 Lecture series (PDF – 0.49 MB)
Reading 2050
The Reading 2050 lecture series provided a platform for discussing the work of the Reading 2050 group, established in 2014 by the School of the Built Environment, Barton Wilmore and Reading UK.
It delivered a strategic, long-term vision that will support the delivery of Reading's legacy of a truly smart and sustainable city.
Making Architecture | Making Communities
Piers Taylor
Award-winning architect, broadcaster and PhD student, Piers Taylor, returns to campus to discuss how architecture can bring about transformations in people and places, and how "making" can be a vehicle for participation.
Britain's Housing Crisis: Designing Future Homes and Cities
Professor Flora Samuel
Architect Professor Flora Samuel delivered her manifesto for a better housing future in this lecture about Britain's housing crisis.
End of Year Shows
Reading’s architecture students showcase their work to the public and industry in carefully curated exhibitions.
Making Architecture | Making Communities
2018/2019
Make, Design, Per[Form]
2017/2018
IN[forming] PROCESS
2016/2017
Structure builds
The Urban Room (2019)
From 14 May to 7 June 2019, this temporary wooden structure, built by our students, enabled conversation and encounters between people and communities across Reading town and the University.
Learn more about the programme of arts-based activities held in the Urban Room
PER[form]ANCE (2018)
Watch our second-year students create this replica real-life architectural brief from the School of Arts & Communication Design. Students worked alongside academics, Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio and Charley Brentnall of Carpenter Oak.
Gridshell (2017)
Watch as our first year Architecture students design and build a gridshell structure with the help of architect Piers Taylor.
Symposia and conferences
The Missing Map: Mapping Social Impacts
25 June 2019
The Missing Map symposium explored methodologies for the spatial mapping of social value, for example connection, community, memory, identity and empowerment.
This symposium is part of Mapping Eco Social Assets (MESA), a two-year Newton funded collaborative project between the Schools of Architecture at the University of Reading and Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines.
Professional Practices in the Built Environment
27–28 April 2017
This conference provided an opportunity for practitioners and academics to come together to understand and learn from different models of professionalism across architecture and the built environment.
This conference is part of the AHRC funded Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects project.
Read more about Professional Practices in the Built Environment
Design Research, Series on Method
22 April 2016
The fourth session of DR_SoM (Design Research Series on Method) focused on research methods used by practitioners (in architecture and other professions) for the study of practice.
Organised by the Architectural Research Network (ARENA), International Network of Architectural Research and the University of Reading's School of Architecture.
Seminars and workshops
Inclusive Way Hackathon, 2020
February 2020
This two-day event, co-organised by Dr Carolina Vasilikou, was open to students from all disciplines and years of study. Students had the opportunity to work with people with particular lived experiences of disabilities and the chance to respond to a brief in ways that champion inclusive designing solutions.
Read more about Breaking down Barriers and the Inclusive Way
Rules of the Game Workshop, part of Reading Assembly: Power
February 2020
Part of the Reading Assembly weekend of events and workshops at the Tate Modern exploring power and communities. Amy Butt, Dr Carolina Vasilikou and students from the School of Architecture led an afternoon of design and discussion workshops for members of the public at the Tate Exchange space.
International Design Workshop: Commons
February 2020
The International Design Workshop (IDW) week in Antwerp is open to radical pedagogical experiences, which stimulates crossing disciplinary boundaries. The fourth edition investigated the potentials of commons.
Architecture summer school taster
July 2019
Our free introductory architecture summer programme was specifically designed for students interested in pursuing a degree in architecture.
The two-day programme, run by Sayan Skandarajah and Vasilena Vassilev, was an opportunity to discover what it would be like to study architecture and gain advice on preparing a portfolio, drawing and model-making, and analysis of the urban environment.
We are All Able Bodies: From Sensory Deprivation to Sensory Augementation
November 2018
A trans-disciplinary international workshop/seminar, co-organised by Dr Carilona Vasilikou and Dr Izabela Wieczorek, re-examining the potentials and limitations of bodies experiencing the sensory realm.
This workshop was organised in a partnership between the Institute of Technology Faculty of Architecture, San Pablo CEO University Madrid and the School of Architecture, University of Reading with support from the International Ambiances Network.
Engagement with practice
Research Practice Leads Group
The aim of the Research Practice Leads (RPL) group is to lobby for architectural research in practice and to share skills and knowledge. The group is led by Professor Flora Samuel, and developed with Darryl Chen of Hawkins Brown.
Industry Night 2019
The event was supported by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Berkshire, enabling architecture graduates to build their professional network.
Pecha-Kucha Talks were presented by Reading graduates and local architectural practices, including Dan Fleming of Broadway Malyan, Jo DeSyllas of Architecture Plb, Dan Lewandowski of Lewandowski Architects; and Reading graduates Sam Bailey, Aston Oakes and Sophy Botsford. The evening was moderated by Jennifer Forakis of RIBA Berkshire.
