25 - 27 August 2009

Centre to Edge: An urban design summer school
This unique 3-day event demonstrated tools for effective placemaking to help equip participants to play a leadership role in meeting some of the key urban challenges of the coming decade. [ More Info ]

The Poundbury Series 2009

View details and presentations from the seven events which took place in 2009[ More Info ] 

September - November 2008

A celebration of HRH The Prince of Wales’s influence on the Built Environment
The Exhibition, which toured Washington and Miami between September and November 2008, profiled a selection of urban design and architectural projects undertaken by The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Envrionment in the last 10 years.
Featuring a podcast  by Hank Dittmar, 'Sustainability and Tradition'[ More Info ] 

8th - 28th July 2008

The Prince of Wales’s Summer School: The Culture of Building
Through a series of lectures, workshops, drawing and building exercises and field trips, our Summer School participants developed an in-depth knowledge both of traditional building and repair techniques and how these have been, and can be, applied in the twenty-first century.[ More Info ] 

2nd April - 28th May 2008

Sustaining Tradition Evening Lecture Series
In association with the Evening Standard’s Homes & Property and featuring some of the leading names in sustainability, architecture and conservation, the overarching theme of the lectures was the need to reconcile a respect for tradition and place with the pressures for development.[ More Info ] 

31st January 2008

New Buildings in Old Places
A seminar on valuing and supporting our historic urban areas with sensitive new building, hosted jointly with the Prince’s RegenerationTrust at St. James’ Palace.[ More Info ]

30th & 31st October 2007

Creating Eco Towns in Britain
The conference was designed to bring a wide diversity of opinions together in order to resolve how to respond to Gordon Brown’s call for the construction of new ‘Eco Towns’ throughout Britain.[ More Info ] 

March 2007

Structuring Settlements: Theories of Practice of Traditional Architecture & Urbanism
A Leon Krier masterclass at Poundbury, the major urban extension of Dorchester, teaching his methodology for place making[ More Info ]

February 2007

Planning for Better Urbanism: Form-Based Codes & Their Implementation
A team from Duany Plater Zyberk presented Andres Duany’s transect method of urban characterisation, and how this is applied to as the basis for design coding in restructuring programmes.[ More Info ]