By supporting our most senior academics, you can enable some of the most extraordinary people on earth to change the world through these endowed posts.

Endowing and naming the Professor of Sustainable Design, the Professor of Community Architecture (new post) and the Professor of History of Building Construction posts will give us the flexibility and funding to undertake cutting-edge research and world-leading teaching in Architecture. These endowed posts will be prestigious and permanent fixtures, ensuring Architecture at Cambridge remains the leading architecture school in the world, in perpetuity.

Endowing Professor of Sustainable Design

The Department seeks a Professor of Sustainable Design to promote interdisciplinary design research across the University and to support the development of the new Design Tripos. It is widely recognised that interdisciplinary tools and research are going to be central in addressing climate change. The role of Professor of Sustainable Design will provide much needed leadership in this area with particular reference to the built environment.

• Cost to endow: £3.8m

Endowing the Professor of Community Architecture 

The Department seeks to create a new post for a Professor of Community Architecture to promote research on inclusion and community outreach in the built environment. Climate change is a social justice issue. It cannot be addressed without enabling communities to contribute to change. The Professor of Community Architecture will work across the University, city and region consolidating the Department’s links with its environs, in this way modelling new forms of inclusive research and architecture scalable for other parts of the globe.

• Cost to endow: £3.8m

Endowing the Professor of History of Building Construction

This post is currently held by Professor James Campbell, an architect and architectural historian with research interests in the field of Material Culture. He is interested in tracing the development of objects in the world and our relationship to them and his research focuses on four main areas:

1. Construction history;
2. Seventeenth-and eighteenth-century architecture (particularly Wren, Hawksmoor and Soane)
3. The history and development of libraries.
4. The history and development of water infrastructure and its outward display in fountains

• Cost to endow: £3.8m