In both research and pedagogy, the School of Architecture advances the theory and practice of critical design at all scales, from the interior to the city. In keeping with an institution that values innovative practice as well as academic research, design-led research is integrated with more conventional text-based enquiry.
The digital and the material are viewed inclusively, as extensions of each other, and researchers move between the two domains in the interests of conceptual innovation and impact-in-the-world. Staff research pursues this integration in collaboration with internal and external research partners in two main subject areas: [pre]fabrication, which includes digital fabrication, prefabricated housing, advanced timber components and sustainable construction, and applied urbanism, which includes digital urbanism, ecological urbanism and typological innovation.
MPhil and PhD students join us as fellow researchers, some working directly to the School’s research themes, others pursuing their own research interests, from the subversion of the UK planning system to the aesthetics of Italian transport infrastructure. Supervisors are drawn from the School’s staff, from the College and from industry in response to the diversity of subjects, and there is competitive funding available for prospective students.
Our staff, MPhil/PhD and consultancy research programmes focus on architecture in relation to:
- Architectural fabrication
- Digital and/or ecological urbanism
- Typological innovation
Rosa Ainley, MPhil by Thesis
Susan Barr, MPhil by project
Alejandro Beals, MPhil by project, BECAS Chile Scholarship
Claudia Dutson, PhD by project, AHRC-funded
Yoon Han, MPhil by project
David Knight, MPhil by project
Chrysostomos Tsimourdagkas, PhD by project, Greek State Scholarship
Florian Wurfbaum, MPhil by project