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The doctoral program in Architecture currently offers two tracks of study: History and Theory of Architecture, and Ecosystems in Architectural Sciences. Both tracks aim to educate teachers capable of effectively instructing future architects in their own field and its manifold connections with the culture at large. The program forges a unique combination of professional knowledge with a historical and analytical grasp of architecture, deepening awareness of the field’s current state and the critical issues it faces.

The History and Theory track provides sound training in historical study and historiography, and cultivates understanding of intellectual trends that inform the reception and role of architecture in the world at large. It prepares candidates for careers in university teaching, cultural advocacy and administration, museum curatorship, and publishing, among others. Students draw on a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, the history of science and technology, social and political history, media theory, as well as the fine arts, literature, and popular culture.

The Ecosystems in Architectural Sciences track provides preparation in interdisciplinary scientific inquiry, qualifying students to incorporate scientific methods into experimental design frameworks in order to research and develop novel material and informational ecosystems. Students in this track engage in research related to the behaviors of living ecosystems, emphasizing their interconnection with the built environment.

Joan Ockman, Director of Doctoral Studies

Current Candidates and Students

Ateya khorakiwala granularities: concrete and the “gray architecture” of grain storage in 1960s and 70s india, albena yaneva the craft of architectural archiving, eeva-liisa pelkonen in conversation with nicola suthor untimely moderns: how 20th century architecture reimagined the past, publications by current and graduated phd students.

Echo’s Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space

University of pittsburgh press.

Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930

Babel’s Present

Standpunkte dokumente.

Perspecta 46

Aaron Tobey and Jia Weng win 2023 Carter Manny Awards for writing and research

Cea phd student phoebe mankiewicz wins lafargeholcim award for indoor plant module, tim altenhof (ph.d. ‘18) wins theron rockwell field prize for his dissertation “breathing space: the architecture of pneumatic beings”, david turturo.

Caryatid: Architecture and the Framing of Bodies (2022). View dissertation.

Theodossios Issaias

Architectures of the Humanitarian Front, 1915-1930: The American Red Cross and the Refugee Settlement Commission of the League of Nations (2021). View dissertation.

A Theory of Common Form in Aesthetic Perception (2019). Abstract.

Skender Luarasi

Where Do You Stop? A Critical Inquiry into Style, Geometry, and Parametricism in History (2018). Abstract.

Tim Altenhof

Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings (2018). Abstract.

Teaching Architecture to the Masses: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930 (2017). Abstract

Surry Schlabs

Waiting for Architecture: John Dewey and the Limits of Modern Art (2017). Abstract.

Kyle Dugdale

Architecture After the Death of God: Uriel Birnbaum’s Der Kaiser und derArchitekt (2015). Abstract.

Joseph Clarke

The Architectural Discourse of Reverberation, 1750-1900 (2014). Abstract.

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551a, Ph.D. Seminar I 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. first year, fall term.) This seminar centers on a thorough examination of fundamental ideas of historiography, centering on Rome and exploring aspects of geology, culture, mapping, site development, the establishment of institutions, and the construction of buildings across several millennia, as well as a study of literature on the urbs and its worldwide impact. Faculty

552b, Ph.D. Seminar II 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. first year, spring term.) This seminar centers on concepts of history and their application to architecture from Jacob Burckhardt to the present and a close reading of historiographic theories, including ethnography, modernity, and the emergence of the profession of architecture in the light of present-day critique. Faculty

553a, Ph.D. Seminar III 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. second year, fall term.) Seminar content to be announced. Faculty

554b, Ph.D. Dissertation Preparation 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. second year, spring term.) Ph.D. tutoring in preparation for oral examinations and formulation of a thesis topic. Faculty

Required Courses, Ecosystems in Architectural Sciences Track

558a, Ph.D. Seminar: Ecosystems in Architecture I 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. first year, fall term.)

559b, Ph.D. Seminar: Ecosystems in Architecture II 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. first year, spring term.)

568a, Ph.D. Seminar: Ecosystems in Architecture III 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. second year, fall term.)

569b, Ph.D. Seminar: Ecosystems in Architecture IV 1 credit. (Required in, and limited to, Ph.D. second year, spring term.)

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The PHD in Architecture addresses the development of modern architectural form and ideas as they have been affected by social, economic, and technological change. In broad terms, it encompasses the relations between the profession, practice, civil institutions, and the society at large.

As a doctoral program, it is oriented toward the training of scholars in the field of architectural history and theory. Its structure reflects a dual understanding of the scholar’s role in the discipline at large: as a teacher and as a researcher making an original contribution to the field, with an emphasis on expanding and reinterpreting disciplinary knowledge in a broad intellectual arena. Course requirements are therefore designed to give entering students a solid foundation in historical knowledge and theoretical discourse, with sufficient flexibility to spark and support individual research agendas. The program’s focus is on the history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism in an international and cross-cultural context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Within this, a wide range of research is supported through the varied expertise of the faculty and through strong relationships with other departments throughout the university and beyond.

The Ph.D. in Architecture is a program within the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) while the actual degree is granted by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).

Admission for 2024

• The application deadline for 2024 admissions was January 4, 2024 and is now closed.
• For additional information on the application process and requirements, please see the GSAS website.

Lucia Allais Barry Bergdoll (Art History) Ateya Khorakiwala Reinhold Martin Mary McLeod Felicity Scott Mark Wigley Mabel Wilson

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Zeynep Celik Alexander Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

All students entering the PhD program in Architecture receive two Residence Units of Advanced Standing, having entered with a master’s degree in architecture, architectural history, or a related field. As such, students must complete the M.Phil. degree within three years from initial registration and the Ph.D. within eight years from initial registration.

Year 1: Students begin required coursework, including language proficiencies Year 2: Students complete required coursework and language proficiencies; begin required teaching apprenticeship Year 3: Students complete required teaching apprenticeship; complete M.Phil. Examination (by mid-February); and defend the Dissertation Prospectus (by early May) Year 4+: Students research, write, and defend the doctoral dissertation

At least once each semester, students should meet individually with the director of the program or with their program or dissertation adviser. Students are assigned a program advisor in the first year, the duties of which are assumed by their dissertation advisor in the third year. Students must have acquired a dissertation advisor by the seventh week of their sixth semester. Students are allowed to change both their program and dissertation advisers during the course of their studies.

All students are expected to meet the requirements of Satisfactory Academic Progress as stipulated by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Renewal of student funding packages each year is dependent upon their maintaining good academic and administrative standing .

Students are required to spend four semesters in residence during which time they are expected to take thirteen courses (39 credit points), of which at least eight must be taken for a letter grade. The remaining five courses can be taken for R credit. The required academic course work breaks down into the four sections described below. In addition to the doctoral colloquia and doctoral seminars, five further classes should be seminars (not lecture courses). At least six of the thirteen courses should be taken with faculty from the Ph.D. in Architecture committee. It is assumed that these thirteen courses will be spread out approximately evenly over the first four semesters of study, although students can complete a larger number of courses in the first year to accommodate teaching requirements in the second year.

For any course in which a student receives an incomplete, the student must complete all outstanding coursework before the beginning of the next academic year. To remain in good standing with the program, students cannot hold more than one incomplete at any time. Students must complete all incomplete coursework prior to taking their M.Phil. examination.

Section 1: Doctoral Colloquia All students are required to take two doctoral colloquia in the fall semester and at least two doctoral seminars in the spring semester over the four-semester sequence. Three of these must be taken for a letter grade.

Section 2: Architectural History/Theory To complete distribution requirements, students will be required to take graduate-level courses from the following areas of study:

• One pre-1750 (Western or non-Western)
• Two courses either in Eighteenth-Century Architecture and Theory or Nineteenth-Century Architecture and Theory

At least half of the syllabus must address these time frames for a course to satisfy the requirement. At the discretion of the program director, these requirements may be modified for students who have had previous, relevant graduate-level courses.

Section 3: Social and Critical Studies Students should take at least one course outside of Architecture and Art History. Representative departments in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with an emphasis on comparative historical and critical studies include: African American and African Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English and Comparative Literature, Germanic Language and Literature, History, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Philosophy, and Political Science, or within relevant University Centers and Institutes. The specific topic and the choice of faculty will be decided in consultation with the student’s program adviser or the director of the program.

Section 4: Electives Remaining coursework is completed through elective courses in students’ areas of interest, the selection of which should be decided in consultation with the student’s program adviser or the director of the program.

The four-semester program has been designed to give doctoral candidates sufficient training for the M.Phil. examination, with a special emphasis on the ability to teach classes in modern architectural and urban development and its relationship to parallel developments in material history and contemporary thought. Students must complete their M.Phil. (generals) examination no later than their sixth semester in the program.

The M.Phil. qualifying examination is divided into three interrelated sections:

Three revised coursework papers, chosen to reflect the student’s research interests and abilities

Two essays written in response to specific questions formulated by the examining committee, one essay pertaining to the major field and one to the minor field. Students will receive two questions pertaining to the major field but only answer one of them.

The oral examination

The qualifying exam will be divided into major and minor fields. These fields are to be determined in consultation with the program faculty supervising the exam. The major field should be fairly broad and involve cross-cultural comparisons and/or cover at least a century in time. The minor field should focus on another topic, historical or theoretical in character, distinct from the major field. Students must consult the relevant supervising faculty in deciding on their major and minor fields.

The examining committee will be comprised of three members, two covering the major field and one covering the minor field. At least two members of the examining committee should be drawn from the Ph.D. committee or from the program’s associated faculty. Each student prepares the two bibliographies in consultation with these faculty and distributes final versions of the bibliographies one month prior to the oral examination. Each member of the committee will be responsible for one question, which the student receives a week after submitting the bibliographies. The papers are to be completed in a two-week period and submitted at least one week prior to the oral examination. The oral exam consists of discussion of the submitted essays, the coursework papers, and the bibliographies.

To receive the degree of M.Phil. students must complete the required coursework, the M.Phil. exam, the required four semesters of teacher training, and must have demonstrated proficiency in two languages other than English.

After successfully completing the qualifying examination, each student defends his or her dissertation proposal before a faculty committee, composed of the student’s dissertation adviser, who must be on the list of approved Architecture Doctoral Dissertation Advisors , and two other readers, at least one of whom should be from the list of Architecture dissertation advisors or associated faculty. Defense of the dissertation prospectus must take place before the end of the sixth semester.

The student will then be free to pursue the research topic independently, in ongoing consultation with the dissertation adviser. It is expected that the dissertation be completed approximately two to three years after approval of the topic. Since all students come into the program with Advanced Standing, students must complete the dissertation within eight years of entering the program, approved Leaves of Absence notwithstanding.

The dissertation must be submitted four weeks before the dissertation defense. A copy is to be provided for each member of the examining committee. This committee consists of five people, at least three of whom are approved as a dissertation advisor in Architecture or the associated faculty. At least one member of the committee must be from outside GSAPP. The student is granted the Ph.D. upon defending the dissertation successfully and depositing the final copy in accordance with University regulations.

For more information on the Ph.D. dissertation, refer to the GSAS Dissertation Toolkit .

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Students may study for a PhD degree in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. An additional track in Architectural Technology is also available. This degree is administered jointly by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Therefore, students benefit from a dual affiliation with both schools.

The program is mainly geared towards individuals who wish to enter academic teaching and research careers. Students are afforded a high degree of flexibility in their studies, however areas of work are broadly organized into the following areas: the Theory and History of Architecture, Architectural Technology, the Theory and History of Landscape Architecture, and the Evolution of Cities and Regions. 

• Theory and History of Architecture:  

Students interested in this area typically study buildings, architectural texts, technologies, and their political, social, and cultural contexts through the early modern, modern, and contemporary eras. 

• Architectural Technology:  

Doctoral research in architectural technology at the GSD aims to advance current  knowledge in green building, for example, and will typically involve issues related to engineering, computation, and digital simulations. 

• Theory and History of Landscape Architecture : 

Students whose research focuses on the theory and history of landscape architecture typically investigate the  ways in which the  natural environment has been thought of, represented, and transformed, from the early modern to the contemporary period. 

• Evolution of Cities and Regions:

Students may be interested in the subject of cities  from a formal standpoint and/or develop an additional emphasis on various social, economic, technological, infrastructural, and ecological dimensions of urban life.

For biographies of current students and more information about their research interests, click here .

After graduation, PhD program alumni typically teach in design schools, or in history or history of art and architecture departments, landscape architecture and environmental studies departments, and urban studies and/or urban planning departments. Some alumni also work in the science, technology, and society domain on governmental and policy issues of particular relevance to their research.

Program Director and Administrator

Antoine Picon , G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at the GSD is the current director of the program.

Margaret Moore de Chicojay is the PhD program administrator and key point of contact for incoming and current students. Contact: [email protected]

Publications

Undergraduate, theses and dissertations htc alumni, aga khan program for islamic architecture, history theory + criticism.

Mark Jarzombek: Many Houses, Many Worlds - Venice Biennale 2021. Office of (Un)certainty Research.

Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye-  Timothy Hyde.

Thinking with Symbionts - Caroline Jones.

Titian, The Rape of Europa , ca. 1560/1562, oil on canvas, Isabella Steward Gardner Museum.

Long Quan celadon porcelain , China, Ming dynasty; gilt bronze, France, 18th C. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Kathaleen Brearley Discipline Group Assistant [email protected]

Diana Rooney AKPIA Discipline Group Assistant [email protected]

The History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art (HTC) program aims to produce leading-edge scholars and intellectuals in the field of art and architectural history. We place a strong emphasis on historiography and analytical methodologies. Courses deal with the social and physical context of the built environment, the significant issues in current disciplinary thinking, as well as with the philosophical, political, and material contexts for works of art and architecture. We are proud of our long-standing relationship to and connection with peer institutions all around the world. Our faculty members explore the history of art and architectural works, the shifting attitudes towards their interpretation, and the geopolitical pressures on their appearance, preservation, and disappearance. We also seek to produce interdisciplinary tools for probing the wider significance of such shifts over time. The HTC Forum Lecture Series, the Aga Khan Lecture Series, and Thresholds (the departmental journal) are just some of the activities that we organize for the enrichment of all.

The goal of the HTC program is to prepare PhD students for an intellectual life in universities, in architecture schools, and in architectural practice. SMArchS graduates pursue a wide variety of fields ranging from historic park management to criticism. Undergraduate Minors and Concentrators develop a strong foundation in architectural and art history, paving the way for a vibrant cultural life, further study, or a career in architecture, the arts, or related fields. Within each degree program, emphasis is placed simultaneously on critical method and historical substance. Students are encouraged to identify research projects that are relevant to their own concerns and allow them to reflect on contemporary issues. At the same time, the program demands rigorous historical scholarship. It is this combination, we believe, that leads to real change in the ways we think about art and architecture and write their histories.

The HTC group teaches subjects that deal with the history of architecture and art, as well as the theoretical and political presuppositions informing that history. Courses offered range in content and method. Some are motivated by questions derived from the problems of contemporary practice. Others work with a body of historical material investigated in ways that develop analytical skills applicable to a wide range of topics. Still others explore themes (e.g., Orientalism, ornament, sustainability) in their historical and theoretical dimensions. Subjects are taught from prehistoric times through the Renaissance to the present, with a strong focus on topics of modern art and architecture. Our curriculum focuses on materials that are both abstract and concrete, with scales that range from the architectural drawing to the art installation to the urban environment, and themes from Color to economic development and concepts of “the natural.” Topics centered in Europe as well as the Americas are balanced with a comparable set of offerings on the Islamic world developed by AKPIA and taught as part of the HTC group.

HTC is a unique program in American education. Its location within the oldest school of architecture in the U.S. focuses attention on interdisciplinary issues in contemporary practice and distinguishes it from the art history departments of universities. A number of the HTC faculty have both professional and academic degrees and this contributes to the interaction of practice and scholarship that is unique to this environment. Faculty also have strong ties to MIT Resources available to art and architectural historians as well as artists. Alone among PhD programs in architecture schools, HTC hosts a substantial curriculum in art history. Its theoretical and critical orientation constitutes an important part of the education of all of the students in the program.

See  Graduate Programs  for degree requirements.

Caroline Jones

Mark Jarzombek

Arindam Dutta

Kristel Smentek

Timothy Hyde

Nasser Rabbat

James Wescoat

David Friedman

• 2020 The Data-Human: Who are we? Exploring the Questions of Our Identity in the Digital Age Mark Jarzombek
• 2019 Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye Timothy Hyde
• 2016 Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense Caroline Jones
• 2016 The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS Nasser Rabbat
• 2022 Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment Kristel Smentek
• 2022, Architecture in Development Systems and the Emergence of the Global South Arindam Dutta 2. God’s gamble: self-help architecture and the housing of risk
• The Long Millennium Mark Jarzombek

The graduate degree programs have few requirements yielding a great deal of flexibility, encouraging work outside the curricular and disciplinary borders. Students do best when they understand their own direction and are able to assemble for themselves a curriculum and a set of advisors that take advantage of the wealth of resources available in Cambridge. Students come to HTC from design schools, from MA programs, from work, and directly from college. PhD and Master's students (enrolled in the SMArchS program) follow the same curriculum through the first three semesters of their enrollment. Master's students tend to return more frequently than PhD students to architectural practice and design teaching, but a large number also go on to PhD programs.

The History, Theory, and Criticism Program was founded in 1975 as one of the first to grant the PhD degree in a school of architecture. Its mission has been to generate advanced research within MIT's School of Architecture and Planning and to promote critical and theoretical reflection within the disciplines of architectural and art history. Students and faculty work in a variety of fields, covering diverse parts of the globe. Commitment to depth and diversity is an integral part of HTC's identity and one of the reasons for the success of its students, who come to Cambridge from around the world. Between 1975 and 2001 HTC awarded 50 PhDs and 47 Masters degrees, and the recipients of these degrees have gone on to teach in prominent universities and colleges worldwide. Unlike other architectural history departments in schools of architecture, HTC includes art historians on its permanent faculty and offers both a PhD and Master's in art history as well as in architectural history. The core faculty is annually supplemented by distinguished visiting scholars who contribute significantly to the intellectual life of the program.

HTC offers two tracks of study within the PhD program: History and Theory of Architecture and the History and Theory of Art. Degree requirements and admissions procedures for both tracks are the same.

The program in History, Theory and Criticism (HTC) draws from the unique range of disciplines and professions within the Department of Architecture. The program emphasizes the study of art, architecture, and urbanism, past and present, produced in a broad range of geographic areas, as well as methodological issues that inform or link the history of ideas and practices. HTC was founded in 1975 as one of the first PhD programs of its kind in a school of architecture. Its mission is to promote critical and theoretical reflection within the disciplines of architectural and art history. HTC differs from other architectural programs in that it has art historians on its permanent faculty. Visiting scholars are annually invited to teach, supplementing the core faculty.

Continuous registration is required until completion of the dissertation. Generally all subject/course work is completed by the end of the second year of residency and all other requirements, except for the dissertation, are completed by the end of the third year. The final two years are devoted to dissertation research and writing culminating in a defense at the conclusion of the fifth year.

Within the History and Theory of Architecture or Art PhD, there is a concentration in Islamic Architecture and Art. The History, Theory and Criticism Section at MIT was the first Ph.D. program of its kind in the nation. Its mission is to encourage advanced historical research and to promote critical and theoretical reflection within the disciplines of architectural and art history. The concentration on Islamic architecture and urbanism is an integral part of the HTC section. One student each year is admitted to work on an Islamic subject and funded through the Aga Khan Program endowment. Research projects vary in scope, method, and range from the classical period to the present.

Faculty Advising

Each student is assigned an HTC faculty advisor upon admission. Generally it is the same faculty member designated to supervise research, and students are encouraged to work with HTC faculty members as a whole. The advisor will consult on the initial plan of study and on each subsequent term's selection of subjects. The advisor monitors the student's progress throughout each phase of the degree and will assist the student in selecting a dissertation committee. Students generally select their dissertation advisor by the end of the fourth semester.

Doctoral Research Opportunity in History and Theory of Architecture or Art, and Advanced Urbanism

The Norman B. Leventhal Center of Advanced Urbanism and Departments of Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning have established a collaborative doctoral-level concentration in Advanced Urbanism. Urbanism is a rapidly growing field that has many branches. At MIT, we speak of Advanced Urbanism as the field which integrates research on urban design, urbanization and urban culture.

The concentration in Advanced Urbanism seeks doctoral applicants who have: 1) at least one professional design degree (in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, etc.); 2) research interests in urbanism that would draw upon both ARCH and DUSP faculty advising; and 3) a commitment to engage with the research community at the LCAU and within their home department throughout their time at MIT. Applicants should apply for admission to an existing ARCH or DUSP PhD program and must meet all specific admissions requirements of the respective PhD program. Admissions committees nominate applicants who fit the urbanism program to a joint advanced urbanism admissions committee. The selected applicants are admitted by their home department discipline group (DUSP; AKPIA, BT, Computation, HTC) with financial support and research assistantships from LCAU.

Prospective students with questions pertaining to the doctoral studies in Advanced Urbanism should reach out to their prospective home doctoral program and to LCAU doctoral committee members: Rafi Segal and Brent Ryan. Or to the mailing list [email protected]. 

The Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) is a two-year program of advanced study founded on research and inquiry in architecture as a discipline and as a practice. The program is intended both for students who already have a professional degree in architecture and those interested in advanced non-professional graduate study.

Within the HTC discipline, there are two areas of study for SMArchS students: - History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art -  Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

SMArchS in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art

SMArchS students in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art will expand upon prior experience (which can be in design, theory, history, practice, or other post-undergraduate work) to explore compelling research that links historical or contemporary topics with methodological issues. Working alongside doctoral students in the program, SMArchS students will be exposed to a wide range of historical periods and theoretical approaches. It is expected that research topics will be developed in close discussion with HTC faculty, building on the required Methods seminar (taken twice) to clarify the appropriate scope and original sources required for the master's thesis. The HTC program is intensely interdisciplinary, and students are expected to enrich their core disciplines of history and theory with inquiry into other fields as appropriate for their research interests. Opportunities occasionally emerge for HTC students to become involved in editing, organizing research symposia, and preparing exhibitions; students will also be brought into discussion with colleagues from across the discipline groups in the SMArchS program.

SMArchS in Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at MIT is a unique international graduate program designed to promote, sustain, and increase the teaching of architecture in the Islamic world. It prepares students for careers in research, design, and teaching. With strong links with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Aga Khan Programs at Harvard, AKPIA concentrates on the critical study of the history and historiography of Islamic architecture; the interaction between architecture, society, and culture; strategies of urban and architectural preservation; design interventions in disaster areas and environmental and material-sensitive landscape research. The siting of AKPIA at MIT's Department of Architecture is intended to negate the polarizing dichotomy between the discipline of architecture (derived from Western architectural history and praxis) and Islamic Architecture, which is routinely relegated to area and cultural studies.

The History Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art (HTC) discipline group teaches subjects that deal with the history of architecture, art, and design, as well as the theoretical and political presuppositions informing that history. Offerings range in content and method. Some are motivated by questions derived from the problems of contemporary practice. Others investigate a body of historical material in ways that develop analytical skills applicable to a wide range of topics. It also offers a minor and a concentration in HTC within the purview of the Institute's Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) program.

HASS Minor in the History of Architecture, Art, and Design

Minor Advisor: Prof. Timothy Hyde

The minor program is designed to enable students to concentrate on the historical, theoretical and critical issues associated with artistic and architectural production. Introductions to the historical framework and stylistic conventions of art and architectural history are followed by more concentrated study of particular periods and theoretical problems in visual culture and in cultural history in general.

Students who successfully complete the minor program will have it specified as part of their Bachelor of Science degree, thus giving public recognition of focused work in the history of architecture and art. This minor program consists of six approved subjects arranged into three levels of study. Two are taken from Tier I, three from Tier 2, and one from Tier 3.

Tier I — 2 Subjects- one from each category

History of Architecture (choose one subject) 4.605 — A Global History of Architecture 4.614 — Building Islam

History of Art (choose one subject) 4.601 — Introduction to Art History 4.602 — Modern Art and Mass Culture

Tier II — 3 Subjects- No more than two subjects from either category (subject not used in Tier 1 may be used in Tier II)

History of Architecture and Design 4.603 — Understanding Modern Architecture 4.605 — A Global History of Architecture 4.614 — Building Islam 4.657 — Design: The History of Making Things

History of Art 4.601 — Introduction to Art History 4.602 — Modern Art and Mass Culture 4.635 — Early Modern Architecture and Art 4.636 — Topics in European Medieval Architecture and Art 4.641 — 19th Century Art: Painting in the Age of Steam 4.651 — Art Since 1940

Tier III — 1 Subject 4.609 — Seminar in the History of Art and Architecture

Any advanced subject in the history of architecture, art or design that is approved by the HASS Concentration advisor including cross-registered subjects at Harvard or Wellesley.

Total for Minor in History of Architecture and Art: 6 Subjects

HASS Concentration in History of Architecture, Art and Design

Concentration Advisor: Timothy Hyde

The HASS concentration requirement encourages students to develop a more mature understanding of a field in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. This experience is not as intensive as majoring or minoring in a field, but it does provide a good understanding of subject matter and methodologies used outside the natural sciences and engineering.

The HASS concentration in History of Architecture, Art and Design is composed of four subjects from two groups of study. Three in the history of architecture, art and design and one in art, culture and technology.

Choose three subjects from Group A, and one from Group B.

Group A — 3 Subjects

History of Architecture and Design

4.603 — Understanding Modern Architecture  4.605 — A Global History of Architecture  4.609 — Seminar in the History of Art and Architecture 4.614 — Building Islam 4.657 — Design: The History of Making Things

History of Art

4.601 — Introduction to Art History 4.602 — Modern Art and Mass Culture 4.635 — Early Modern Architecture and Art 4.636 — Topics in European Medieval Architecture and Art 4.641 — 19th Century Art: Painting in the Age of Steam 4.651 — Art Since 1940

Group B — 1 subject

One subject from Group A on the  Art, Culture & Technology  Concentration page

Total for Concentration in History of Architecture, Art + Design — 4 Subjects

PhD Dissertations

Akbar, Jamel A. , web page   Ministry of Higher Education, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia  … PhD, 1984, fund grp: ia, document title: Responsibility and the Traditional Muslim Built Environment (N. John Habraken) 

Akšamija, Azra , web page   Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  … PhD, 2011, fund grp: ia, document title: Our Mosques Are Us: Rewriting National History of Bosnia-Herzegovina through Religious Architecture (Nasser Rabbat) 

al-Hathloul, Saleh Ali , web page   Chief Executive Officer, S. Alhathloul Development Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  … PhD, 1981, fund grp: ia, document title: Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Phsical Environment: The Arab-Muslim City (Stanford Anderson) 

Allaback, Sarah , web page   Managing Editor, Library of American Landscape History  … PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: The writings of Louisa Tuthill--cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America (Stanford Anderson) 

Allais, Lucia , web page   Associate Professor of Architecture, Columbia University  … PhD, 2008, fund grp: ch, document title: Will to War, Will to Art: Cultural Internationalism and the Modernist Aesthetics of Monuments, 1932-1964 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Anderson, Christy , web page   Associate Professor, University of Toronto St. George  … PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: Inigo Jones's Library and the Language of Architectural Classicism in England, 1580-1640 (David Friedman) 

Anderson, Glaire D. , web page   Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill  … PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: The Suburban Villa (munya) and Court Culture in Umayyad Cordoba (756-976 CE) (Nasser Rabbat) 

Andreotti, Libero , web page   Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology  … PhD, 1989, fund grp: rt, document title: Art and Politics in Fascist Italy: The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution (1932) (Stanford Anderson) 

Ari, Nisa , web page   Associate Professor of Art History, Montserrat College of Art … PhD, 2019, fund grp: ia, document title: Cultural Mandates, Artistic Missions, and "The Welfare of Palestine," 1876–1948) (Caroline Jones) 

Artan, Tülay , web page   Professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey  … PhD, 1989, fund grp: ia, document title: Architecture as a Theater of Life: Profile of the 18th Century Bosphorus (Stanford Anderson) 

Asfour, Khaled S.   Associate Professor, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt  … PhD, 1991, fund grp: ia, document title: The Villa and the Modern Eygptian Intelligentsia: A Critique of Conventionalism (Stanford Anderson) 

Ballon, Hilary , web page   … PhD, 1985, fund grp: rt, document title: Architecture and Urbanism in Henri IV's Paris (Henry Millon) 

Banerji, Shiben , web page   Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago  … PhD, 2015, fund grp: ur, document title: Inhabiting the World: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Global Moral-Politics of Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin (Arindam Dutta) 

Beischer, Thomas G .  Lecturer, Stanford University  … PhD, 2004, fund grp: ch, document title: Great Expectations: Provisional Modernism and the Reception of J.J.P. Oud (Mark Jarzombek) 

Bentel, Carol Rusche , web page   Partner, Bentel & Bentel, Architects/Planners AIA; Adjunct Professor, Webb Institute  … PhD, 2017, fund grp: ch, document title: Addressing the People: Architecture as a Medium of the Fascist Narrative of National Identity, Case del Fascio, 1922-1943 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Bentel, Paul L. , web page   Partner, Bentel & Bentel, AIAs, and Associate Professor, Columbia University  … PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: Modernism and Professionalism in American Architecture 1919-1932, 1992 (Stanford Anderson) 

Bhatt, Ritu , web page   Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis  … PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: On the Epistemological Significance of Aesthetic Values in Architectural Theory (Mark Jarzombek and Stanford Anderson) 

Bible, Ann Vollmann   Education Coordinator, Family Programs, Museum of Fine Arts Boston  … PhD, 2008, fund grp: rt, document title: Cakewalking into Representation: Gabriele Münter's America Travels (1898-1900) and art of Dailiness (Mark Jarzombek) 

Browne, Elizabeth  … PhD, 2021, fund grp: rt, document title: Modeling the Eighteenth Century: Clodion and the Politics of Touch in the Ancien Régime and After (Kristel Smentek) 

Carson, Juli , web page   Professor of Art, Programs in Art History, Critical Theory and Curatorial Practice, University of California at Irvine and Director, UCI's University Art Galleries  … PhD, 2000, fund grp: rt, document title: Excavating Discursivity: Post-Partum Document in the Conceptualist, Feminist, and Psychoanalytic Fields (Michael Leja) 

Çelik Alexander, Zeynep , web page   Associate Professor, Columbia University  … PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: Kinaesthetic Impulses: Experience, Knowledge, and the Body in German Aesthetics, 1871-1918 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Chewning, J. A. , web page   Associate Professor of Design, School of Design, University of Cincinnati  … PhD, 1986, fund grp: ch, document title: William Robert Ware and the Beginning of Architectural Education in the United States, 1861-1881 (Henry Millon) 

Christ, John X. , web page   Visiting Assistant Professor, Plymouth State University, New Hampshire  … PhD, 2004, fund grp: rt, document title: Painting a Theoretical World: Stuart Davis and the Politics of Common Experience in the 1930s (Michael Leja and David Friedman) 

Cowherd, Robert , web page   Associate Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology  … PhD, 2002, fund grp: ch, document title: Cultural Construction of Jakarta: Design, Planning and Development in Jobotabek, 1980-1997 (Stanford Anderson) 

Davidow, Jackson,   … PhD, 2019, fund grp: ch, document title:   Viral visions : art, activism, and epidemiology in the global AIDS pandemic (Caroline Jones) 

Dawood, Azra, web page   Visiting Emerging Scholar, University of Houston  … PhD, 2018, fund grp: ch, document title:   Building protestant modernism : John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the architecture of an American internationalism (1919-1939) (Nasser Rabbat) 

Demchenko, Igor , web page   … PhD, 2015, fund grp: ch, document title: Heritage of the Red Orient: Theories and Practices of Architectural Restoration in Soviet Central Asia (1920-1991) (Mark Jarzombek) 

Desmond, J. Michael , web page   Professor, Louisiana State University  … PhD, 1996, fund grp: rt, document title: A Clearing in the Woods: Self and City in Frank Lloyd Wright's Organic Communities (Stanford Anderson) 

Eigen, Edward , web page   Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design  … PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: Between Stations and Habitations: The Architecture of French Science at the Shore, 1830-1900 (Stanford Anderson) 

Erten, Erdem   Associate Professor, Izmir Institute of Technology  … PhD, 2004, fund grp: ch, document title: Shaping "The Second Half Century": The Architectural Review 1947-1971 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Fadan, Yousef Mohammed  Assistant Professor and Vice Dean, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  … PhD, 1983, fund grp: ch, document title: The Development of Contemporary Housing in Saudi Arabia (1950-1983): A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence under Conditions of Rapid Change (Stanford Anderson) 

Fatsea, Irene , web page   Assistant Professor, National Technical University of Athens  … PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: Monumentality and Its Shadows: A Quest for Modern Greek Architectural Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Athens (1834-1862) (Stanford Anderson) 

Fenske, Gail , web page   Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI  … PhD, 1988, fund grp: ch, document title: The Skyscraper Problem and the City Beautiful: The Woolworth Building (Stanford Anderson) 

Ferng, Jennifer , web page   Assistant Professor, University of Sydney  … PhD, 2012, fund grp: ch, document title: Nature's Objects: Geology, Aesthetics, and the Understanding of Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Mark Jarzombek) 

Fichner-Rathus, Lois , web page   Professor of Art and Art History Coordinator, The College of New Jersey  … PhD, 1981, fund grp: rt, document title: Jack Tworkov's Work from 1955-1979: The Synthesis of Choice and Chance (Wayne Anderson) 

Francis, Razan , web page   Visiting Faculty, Bennington College, VT  … PhD, 2014, fund grp: ia, document title: Secrets of the Arts: Enlightenment Spain's Contested Islamic Craft Heritage (David Friedman) 

Freeman, Nan , web page   Artist and Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  … PhD, 1979, fund grp: rt, document title: Jasper Johns: 'False Start' and his Painting before 1964 (Wayne Anderson) 

Gephart, Emily , web page   Full-Time Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University  … PhD, 2014, fund grp: rt, document title: A Dreamer and A Painter: Visualizing the Unconscious in the Work of Arthur B. Davies, 1890-1920 (Caroline Jones and Michel Leja) 

Grignon, Marc , web page   Professor, Art History, Department of History, Laval University, Quebec  … PhD, 1991, fund grp: ch, document title: Loing du Soleil: Architectural Practice in Canada during the French Regime (Stanford Anderson) 

Grigor, Talinn , web page   Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis  … PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: Cultivat(ing) Modernities: the Society for National Heritage, Political Propaganda, and Public Architecture in Twentieth-Century Iran (Arindam Dutta and Stanford Anderson) 

Gupta, Huma  web page  Assistant Professor, MIT Aga Khan Program  … MCP 2011, subgrp: hi, Accountable to beneficiaries? : the modern development enterprise & its contractors at war : lessons on accountability from Afghanistan to inform the contracting reform agenda (Balakrishnan Rajagopal)  … PhD, 2020, fund grp: rt, document title: Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq (Nasser Rabbat) 

Haglund, Karl  Regional Planner, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston  … PhD, 1997, fund grp: ch, document title: Inventing the Charles River Basin: Urban Images and Civic Discourse in Boston, 1844-1994 (Stanford Anderson) 

Hamadeh, Shirine , web page   Associate Professor, Rice University  … PhD, 1999, fund grp: ia, document title: The City's Pleasures: Architectural Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Stanford Anderson and Cemal Kafadar) 

Haughey, Patrick , web page   Professor of Architecture History, Savannah College of Art & Design  … PhD, 2009, fund grp: ch, document title: The Archive on the Hill: The Presidential Library and the Architecture of American History (Mark Jarzombek) 

Hays, K. Michael , web page   Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University  … PhD, 1990, fund grp: ch, document title: Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer (Stanford Anderson) 

Hedrick, Christian , web page   Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Architecture, Northeastern University  … PhD, 2014, fund grp: ia, document title: Modernism with Style: History, Culture and the Origins of Modern Architecture in Berlin, 1780-1870 (Nasser Rabbat) 

Hill, Kara , web page   Architect and President, Kara Hill Studio  … PhD, 1992, fund grp: ia, document title: Pascal-Xavier Coste (1787-1879): A French Architect in Egypt (Stanford Anderson) 

Isenstadt, Sandy , web page   Associate Professor, University of Delaware  … PhD, 1997, fund grp: ch, document title: "Little Visual Empire": Private Vistas and the Modern American House (Stanford Anderson) 

Israel, Janna , web page   … PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: The Picture of Poverty: Cristoforo Moro and Patronage of San Giobbe, Venice (David Friedman) 

Jarzombek, Mark , web page   Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, MIT  … PhD, 1986, fund grp: ch, document title: Leon Baptista Alberti: The Rhetoric of Cultural Criticism (Kurt W Forster) 

Kang, Hong-Bin  Director, Seoul History Museum, Seoul, South Korea  … PhD, 1980, fund grp: ch, document title: Environmentalism: Philosophical Sources of 19th Century Urban Thought (Stanford Anderson) 

Karimi, Z. Pamela , web page   Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth  … PhD, 2009, fund grp: ia, document title: Transitions in Domestic Architecture and Home Culture in Twentieth Century Iran (Nasser Rabbat) 

Kauffman, Jordan , web page   Lecturer, Boston University  … PhD, 2015, fund grp: ch, document title: Drawing on Architecture: The Socioaesthetics of Architectural Drawing, 1970-1990 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Ketcham, Christopher , web page   … PhD, 2018, fund grp: ch, document title:   Minimal art and body politics in New York City, 1961-1975 (Caroline Jones) 

Keyvanian, Carla L. , web page   Associate Professor, Auburn University  … PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: Charity, Architecture and Urban Development in Post-Tridentine Rome: The Hospital of the SS. ma Trinita' dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1548-1680) (Henry Millon) 

Koss, Juliet , web page   Associate Professor of Art History, Scripps College  … PhD, 2000, fund grp: rt, document title: Empathy Abstracted: Georg Fuchs and the Munich Artists' Theater (Stanford Anderson) 

Kraynak, Janet L. , web page   Lecturer and Director, MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University  … PhD, 2001, fund grp: rt, document title: A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman 1965-1974 (Michael Leja) 

Kroiz, Lauren , web page   Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley  … PhD, 2008, fund grp: rt, document title: New Races, New Media: The Struggle For A Modern American Art, 1890-1925 (Caroline Jones) 

Kubo, Michael , w eb page   Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design  … PhD, 2018, fund grp: ch, document title: Architecture Incorporated: Authorship, Anonymity, and Collaboration in Postwar Modernism (Mark Jarzombek) 

Kully, Deborah  … PhD, 2011, fund grp: ch, document title: Speculating on Architecture: Morality, the New Real Estate, and the Bourgeois Apartment Industry in Late Nineteenth-Century France (Erika Naginski and Mark Jarzombek) 

Lamprakos, Michele , web page   Assistant Professor, University of Maryland; Architect and Founder, Palimpsest, LLC, Springfield, MD  … PhD, 2006, fund grp: ia, document title: Conservation and Building Practice in a World Heritage City: The Case of Sana'a, Yemen (Nasser Rabbat) 

Last, Nana , web page   Associate Professor, University of Virginia  … PhD, 1999, fund grp: ch, document title: Images of Entanglement: Wittgensteinan Spatial Practices between Architecture and Philosophy (Mark Jarzombek) 

Lee, Sanghun   Associate Professor, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea  … PhD, 1996, fund grp: ch, document title: Technology and Form: Iron Construction and Transformation of Architectural Ideals in Nineteenth Century France, 1830-1889 (Stanford Anderson) 

Legault, Réjean , web page   Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal  … PhD, 1997, fund grp: rt, document title: L'Appareil de L'Architecture Moderne: New Materials and Architectural Modernity in France (1889-1934) (Stanford Anderson) 

Lenssen, Anneka , web page   Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley  … PhD, 2014, fund grp: ia, document title: The Shape of the Support: Painting and Politics in Syria's Twentieth Century (Nasser Rabbat) 

León, Ana María , web page   Assistant Professor, University of Michigan  … PhD, 2015, fund grp: ch, document title: Surrealism for the Masses: Housing the Unconscious from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, 1938-1960 (Mark Jarzombek) 

López, John F , web page   Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis  … PhD, 2013, fund grp: ch, document title: The Hydrographic City: Mapping Mexico City's Urban Form in Relation to Its Aquatic Condition, 1521-1700 (David Friedman) 

Lopez-Duran, Fabiola , web page   Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Rice University  … PhD, 2009, fund grp: ch, document title: Eugenics in the Garden: Architecture, Medicine, and Landscape from France to Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century (Arindam Dutta) 

López, Albert José-Antonio   web page Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque  ...PhD, 2021, The Integrated State: Architecture, Planning, and Politics in Mexico, 1938-1958 

Lum, Eric , web page   Online Director, Academy of Art University  … PhD, 1999, fund grp: ch, document title: Architecture as Artform: Drawing, Painting, Collage, and Architecture, 1945-1965 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Lunn, Margaret Rauschenbach  Fiber Artist  … PhD, 1983, fund grp: rt, document title: G.-Albert Aurier, Critic and Theorist of Symbolist Art (Wayne Anderson) 

Marefat, Mina , web page   Principal, Design Research; Lecturer, Georgetown University  … PhD, 1988, fund grp: ia, document title: Building to power: architecture of Tehran 1921-1941 (Stanford Anderson) 

Matteson, M. Benjamin , web page   Adjunct Faculty, Wentworth Institute of Technology  … PhD, 2014, fund grp: ch, document title: Between Architectures: Institutionalization and Architectural Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century Poland (Mark Jarzombek) 

Maxim, Juliana , web page   Associate Professor and Director of Architecture Program, University of San Diego  … PhD, 2006, fund grp: rt, document title: The New, the Old, the Modern. Architecture and its Representation in Socialist Romania 1955-1965 (Stanford Anderson) 

Mazarakis, Valeria  Architect and Independent scholar  … PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: José Rafael Moneo Vallés: 1965-1985 (Stanford Anderson) 

McLaren, Brian L. , web page   Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture, University of Washington  … PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: Mediterraneità and Modernità: Architecture and Culture during the Period of Italian Colonization of North Africa (Mark Jarzombek) 

Michailidis, Melanie  … PhD, 2007, fund grp: ia, document title: Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance: Monumental Funerary Architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (Nasser Rabbat) 

Moffat, Isabelle  Independent art historian and critic, Berlin, Germany  … PhD, 2002, fund grp: rt, document title: The Independent Group's Encounters with Logical Positivism and Searches for Unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition (Leo Marx) 

Moon, Iris Jee , web page   Assistant Curator, Metropolittan Museum of Art, New York  … PhD, 2013, fund grp: rt, document title: Ornament after the Orders: Percier, Fontaine and the Rise of the Architectural Interior in Post-Revolutionary France (Mark Jarzombek) 

Morshed, Adnan Z ., web page   Associate Professor, The Catholic University of America  … PhD, 2002, fund grp: ia, document title: The Aviator's (Re)Vision of the World: An Aesthetics of Ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama (Stanford Anderson and Mark Jarzombek) 

Muzaffar, M. Ijlal , web page   Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design  … PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: The Periphery Within: Modern Architecture and the Making of the Third World (Mark Jarzombek) 

Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona , web page  Associate Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology  … PhD, 2002, fund grp: ch, document title: Isrealizing Jerusalem: The Encouter Between Architectural and National Ideologies 1967-1977 (Mark Jarzombek) 

O'Brien, Jim  Architect, Jim O'Brien Architects  … PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: Possibilities for Architectural Production Under Capitalism (Mark Jarzombek and William Mitchell) 

Oen, Karin , web page   Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes, NTU CCA Singapore  … PhD, 2012, fund grp: rt, document title: Admonition and the Academy: Installation, Video, and Performance Art in Reform Era China (Caroline Jones) 

Okoye, Ikem , web page   Associate Professor, University of Delaware  … PhD, 1995, fund grp: ch, document title: 'Hideous' Architecture: Feint and Resistance in Turn of the Century South-Eastern Nigerian Building (Stanford Anderson) 

Orbay, Iffet  Ceramicist, Quebec  … PhD, 2001, fund grp: ia, document title: Istanbul Viewed: The Representation of the City in Ottoman Maps of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Stanford Anderson and Gulru Necipoglu) 

Osman, Michael , web page   Associate Professor, UCLA  … PhD, 2008, fund grp: ch, document title: Regulation, Architecture and Modernism in the United States, 1890-1920 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Otero-Pailos, Jorge , web page   Professor and Director of Historic Preservation, GSAPP, Columbia University  … PhD, 2002, fund grp: ch, document title: Theorizing the Anti-Avant-Garde: Invocations of Phenomenology in Architectural Discourse 1945-1989 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Pai, Hyungmin  Professor, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea  … PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: From the Portfolio to the Diagram: Architectural Discourse and the Transformation of the Discipline of Architecture in America, 1918-1943 (Stanford Anderson) 

Pedret, Annie , web page   Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea  … PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: CIAM and the Emergence of Team 10 Thinking, 1945-1959 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Pereira, Claudio Calovi , web page   Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil  … PhD, 1998, fund grp: ch, document title: Architectural Practice and the Planning of Minor Palaces in Renaissance Italy: 1510-1570 (David Friedman) 

Pezolet, Nicola , web page   Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal  … PhD, 2013, fund grp: rt, document title: Spectacles Plastiques: Reconstruction and the Debates on the "Synthesis of the Arts" in France, 1944-1962 (Caroline Jones) 

Pollak, Martha , web page   Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago  … PhD, 1984, fund grp: ch, document title: The Seventeenth Century Urban Expansion of Turin (Henry Millon) 

Presutti, Kelly , web page   Assistant Professor, Cornell University  … PhD, 2017, fund grp: rt, document title: Terroir after the Terror: Landscape and Representation in Nineteenth-Century France (Kristel Smentek) 

Pyla, Panayiota , web page   Associate Professor, University of Cyprus  … PhD, 2002, fund grp: ia, document title: Ekistics, Architecture, and Environmental Politics, 1945-1976: A Prehistory of Sustainable Development (Stanford Anderson and Mark Jarzombek) 

Rabbat, Nasser , web page   Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  … PhD, 1991, fund grp: ia, document title: The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341: Reconstructing Architecture from Texts (Stanford Anderson) 

Ramaswamy, Deepa , web page   … PhD, 2018, fund grp: ch, document title:   Transactional terrains : partnerships, bargains and the Postwar redefinition of the public realm, New York City 1965-1980 (Arindam Dutta) 

Rizvi, Kishwar , web page   Associate Professor, Yale University  … PhD, 2000, fund grp: ia, document title: Transformations in Early Safavid Architecture: The Shrine of Shaykh Safi Al-Din Ishaq Ardabili in Iran (1501-1629) (Nassar Rabbat and Gulru Necipoglu) 

Rogers, Sarah  Independent Scholar  … PhD, 2008, fund grp: rt, document title: Postwar Art and the Historical Roots of Beirut's Cosmopolitanism (Nasser Rabbat and Caroline Jones) 

Savas, Aysen , web page   Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey  … PhD, 1994, fund grp: ch, document title: Between Document and Monument: Architectural Artefacts in the Age of Specialized Institutions (Stanford Anderson) 

Sayed, Hazem   App Developer  … PhD, 1987, fund grp: ia, document title: The Rab' in Cairo: A Window on Mamluk Architecture and Urbanism (Stanford Anderson) 

Schmidt, Sebastian , web page   Director of Curricular Planning & Educational Initiatives,  Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design  … PhD, 2017, fund grp: ch, document title: From Global War to Global Cities: Planning, Art, and Post-WWII Urban History in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo (Mark Jarzombek) 

Schwarzer, Mitchell , web page   Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA  … PhD, 1991, fund grp: rt, document title: Adolf Loos and Theories of the Practical Arts in 19th Century Austria and Germany (Stanford Anderson) 

Sezer, Yavuz , web page   Lecturer, Istanbul Bilgi University  … PhD, 2016, fund grp: ia, document title: The Architecture of Bibliophilia: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Libraries (Nasser Rabbat) 

Sheren, Ila , web page   Associate Professor, Washington University on St. Louis  … PhD, 2011, fund grp: rt, document title: Portable Borders/Mythical Sites: Performance Art and Politics on the US Frontera, 1968 - 牐獥湥䡴ऀ儀 (Caroline Jones) 

Siler, Todd , web page   Artist, inventor, author  … PhD, 1986, fund grp: rt, document title: Architectonics of Thought: A Symbolic Model of Neuropsychological Processes (Stanford Anderson) 

Siry, Joseph M. , web page   Professor, Weslayan University  … PhD, 1984, fund grp: ch, document title: The Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago (Stanford Anderson) 

Steiner, Hadas A. , web page   Associate Professor, University at Buffalo-SUNY  … PhD, 2001, fund grp: rt, document title: Bathrooms, Bubbles, and Systems: Archigram and the Landscapes of Transience (Mark Jarzombek) 

Stieber, Nancy  Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston  … PhD, 1986, fund grp: ch, document title: The Professionalization of Housing Design: A Study of Collectivism and Cultural Pluralism in Amsterdam, 1909-1919 (Stanford Anderson) 

Tohme, Lara , web page   Lead Academic Director, West Campus, Undergraduate Advising and Research, Stanford University  … PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: Out of Antiquity: Umayyad Baths in Context (Nasser Rabbat) 

Tuerk, Stephanie , web page   Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Mathematica  … PhD, 2016, fund grp: ch, document title: Utilité publique: Architecture, Urbanism, and Aesthetic Reform in Turn of the Century France (Mark Jarzombek) 

Uchill, Rebecca , web page   Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth  … PhD, 2015, fund grp: rt, document title: Developing Experience: Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions, from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States (Caroline Jones) 

Udovicki-Selb, Danilo , web page   Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin, Texas  … PhD, 1995, fund grp: rt, document title: The Invention of the 1937 Paris Exhibition: An Exhibition Without Style (Stanford Anderson) 

Urban, Florian , web page   Professor and Head of Architectural History and Urban Studies, Glasgow School of Art  … PhD, 2006, fund grp: ch, document title: The Invention of the Historic City -- Building the Past in East Berlin 1970-1990 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Vicario, Niko , web page   Assistant Professor, Amherst College  … PhD, 2015, fund grp: rt, document title: Import/Export: Raw Materials, Hemispheric Expertise, and the Making of Latin American Art, 1933-1945 (Caroline Jones) 

Vronskaya, Alla , web page   Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology  … PhD, 2014, fund grp: ch, document title: The Productive Unconscious: Architecture, Experimental Psychology and Techniques of Subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Vujosevic, Tijana , web page   Assistant Professor, University of Western Australia  … PhD, 2010, fund grp: ch, document title: Architectures of the Everyday in 1920s and 1930s Russia (Mark Jarzombek) 

Weiss, Kirsten  … PhD, 2008, fund grp: ch, document title: The Face of the German House: Modernization and Cultural Anxiety in 20th Century Architectural Photographs (Mark Jarzombek) 

Wendelken, Cherie  Independent Scholar  … PhD, 1994, fund grp: ch, document title: Living with the Past: Conservation and Development in Post-War Japanese Architecture and Town Planning (Stanford Anderson) 

Wheeler, Katherine , web page   Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Knoxville  … PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: The Reception and Study of Renaissance Architecture in Great Britain, 1890-1914 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Whiting, Sarah M. , web page   Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design  … PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: The Jungle in the Clearing: Space, Form and Democracy in America, 1940-1949 (Stanford Anderson) 

Widrich, Mechtild , web page   Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago  … PhD, 2009, fund grp: rt, document title: Performative Monuments: Public Art and Commemoration in Postwar Europe (Caroline Jones and Martha Buskirk) 

Wong, Winnie Won Yin , web page   Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley  … PhD, 2010, fund grp: rt, document title: After the Copy: Creativity, Originality and the Labor of Appropriation--Dafen Village, Shenzhen, China (1989-2010) (Caroline Jones) 

Wong, Y.C. , web page   Associate Professor, National University of Singapore  … PhD, 1999, fund grp: ch, document title: The Geodesic Works of Richard Buckminster Fuller (1948-68) (The Universe as a Home of Man) (Stanford Anderson) 

Wortham-Galvin, B.D. , web page   Associate Professor, Clemson University  … PhD, 2006, fund grp: ch, document title: Mythologies of an Everyday American Landscape: Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn (Mark Jarzombek) 

Yahya, Maha , web page   Director, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut, Lebanon  … PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: Unnamed Modernisms: National Ideologies and Historical Imaginaries in Beirut's Urban Architecture (Mark Jarzombek and Philip Khoury) 

SMArchS or MAAS Theses

Abbas, Yasmine , web page   Chair of Design Management, Paris College of Art  … SMArchS 2001, subgrp: hi, Embodiment: Mental and Physical Geographies of the Neo-nomad (William Porter)  received a DDes from Harvard University 

AbdelAzim, Mariam , web page   Researcher and Gallery Assistant, Storefront for Art and Architecture  … SMArchS 2014, subgrp: hi, Re-Urbanizing Ismailia By Implementing an Urban Infill Housing Approach (Michael Dennis) 

Abed, Jamal H. , web page   Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design, AZM University, Tripoli, Lebanon; Director of Palanning & Design and Partner, Millenium Development International  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: hi, Traditional Building Trades and Crafts in Changing Socio-economic Realities and Present Aesthetic Values: Case Studies in Syria (Ronald Lewcock) 

Abu Hantash, Tawfig , web page   Associate Professor, American University of Ras al Khaimah; Principal Designer, GDAR Group For Design and Architectural Research  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: hi, Ibn Khaldun and the City: A Study of the Physical Formation of Medieval Cairo (Stanford Anderson) 

Agrawal, Vivek , web page   Senior Partner, McKinsey & Co, Japan  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: hi, Reading Context in Design (William Porter) 

Ahmed, Imran , web page   Executive Managing Director, CBRE Capital Advisors  … SMArchS 1992, subgrp: hi, The Journey from New Delhi to Islamabad: Dependence and Subversion in the Ambivalent Expression of Nationhood (Francesco Passanti) 

Ahmed, K. Iftekhar   … SMArchS 1991, subgrp: hi, Up to the Waist in Mud!: the Assessment and Application of Earth-derivative Architecture in Rural Bangladesh (Ronald Lewcock) 

Akbar, Jamel A. , web page   … SMArchS 1981, subgrp: hi, Support for Court-Yard Houses. Riyad, Saudi Arabia (N. John Habraken)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Akhtar, Saima , web page   Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: hi, Shangri La: Architecture as Collection (Nasser Rabbat and Caroline Jones)  received a PhD from University of California, Berkeley 

Akkar, Ghita   President, Highline Development, Boston  … SMArchS 2011, subgrp: hi, A Cultural, Customizable and Prefabricated Housing Grammar for Casablanca (Terry Knight and Reinhard Goethert) 

al Husseini, Dalia  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: hi, Aqaba's Old Town: Proposed Model for Community Development within the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (Reinhard Goethert) 

Al Kazzaz, Tarek  Managing Partner, AlMutawir, Kuwait  … SMArchS 1990, subgrp: ht, A Critique of the Logic of Consumption in Postmodern Architecture: The Museum as a Case Study (Stanford Anderson) 

al-Harithy, Howayda , web page   Professor, American University, Beirut, Lebanon  … SMArchS 1987, subgrp: hi, Architectural Form and Meaning in Light of Al Jurjani's Literary Theories (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from Harvard University 

Al-Masri, Wa'el M.  Chief Architect, Wael Al-Masri Planners and Architects (WMPA)  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: hi, Architecture and the Question of Identity: Issues of Self-representation in Islamic Community Centers in America (Masood A. Khan) 

Alamuddin, Hana , web page   Principal and Architect, Almimariya, Architects and Designers for Sustainable Development; Senior lecturer, American University of Beirut  … SMArchS 1987, subgrp: hi, Waterfront Developments in the Middle East Case Study: the Golden Horn Project, Istanbul, Turkey (Ronald Lewcock) 

Ali al-Zaghmouri, Mohammed K .  Industrial Professor, German Jordanian University; Founder, GDAR Group For Design and Architectural Research  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: hi, The Use of Precedents in Contemporary Arab Architecture, Case Studies: Rasem Badran and Henning Larsen (Stanford Anderson) 

Alkhabbaz, Mohammed  PhD Candidate, Illinois Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2010, subgrp: hi, Renewable Success: Development of Good Architecture in the Case of Arriyadh Development Authority, Saudi Arabia (Mark Jarzombek) 

Alrabe, Muneerah , web page   … SMArchS 2016, subgrp: hi, Spatial Practice: The Politics of "Activating" Public Space in the State of Kuwait (James Wescoat) 

AlSayyad, Nezar M ., web page   Professor, University of California, Berkeley  … SMArchS 1981, subgrp: ht, Streets of Islamic Cairo: a configuration of urban themes and patterns (William Porter)  received a PhD from University of California, Berkeley 

Amundsen, Minakshi  Asst. Vice Pres. for Facilities and Campus Planning, Colby College  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 1998, subgrp: hi, The Future of the Past - -Conserving the Mellah of Rabat, Morocco (Attilio Petruccioli and John de Monchaux) 

Anderson, James , web page   Programmer, Datagraph, Germany  … SMArchS 1986, subgrp: ht, The Architecture of Hans Scharoun: Practice 1933-1945 (Stanford Anderson) 

Ani, Raya , web page   Lead Designer-Principal, RAW-NYC Architects  … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: hi, In the Shadow of Segregation: Women's Identity in the Modern Iraqi House (Sibel Bozdogan) 

Ansari, Sadaf  Associate Director of Studies/Resident Fellow, National University of Singapore  … SMArchS 2003, subgrp: hi, Constructing and Consuming 'Heritage': Popular Perception of Humayun's Tomb (Arindam Dutta and Heghnar Watenpaugh) 

Ansari, Zarminae  … SMArchS 1997, subgrp: hi, A Contemporary Architectural Quest and Synthesis: Kamil Khan   Mumtaz in Pakistan (Attilio Petruccioli ) 

Arida, Saeed , web page   Chief Executive Officer, NuVu  … SMArchS 2004, subgrp: hi, Contextualizing the Generative Design (Terry Knight)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Arkaraprasertkul , Non  Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, Australia  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: ht, Shanghai Contemporary: The Politics of Built Form (Stanford Anderson and Yung Ho Chang)  received a PhD from Harvard University 

As, Imdat  Assistant Professor, University of Hartford  … SMArchS 2002, subgrp: hi, Emergent Design: Rethinking of Contemporary Mosque Architecture in Light of Digital Technology (Takehiko Nagakura)  received a DDes from Harvard University 

Asfour, Khaled  Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt  … SMArchS 1987, subgrp: hi, Dealing with the Incompatible! (Ronald Lewcock)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Ashraf, Kazi , web page   Professor, School of Architecture, University of Hawaii at Manoa  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: hi, Architecture as Evocation of Place: Thoughts on An Archtectural "Beginning" in Bangladesh (William Porter)  received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 

Autorino, Salvatore  Managing Director - ‎Autorino Associati  … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: hi, Memory of Islam: Culture and Politics in Sixteenth-century Religious Architecture of Mexico and Peru (Attilio Petruccioli ) 

Badshah, Akhtar , web page   Chief Catalyst, Catalytic Innovators Group  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: hi, Interventions into Old Residential Quarters: the Case of Shahjahanabad (William Porter) 

Bagchee, Nandini , web page   Associate Professor, City College of New York  … SMArchS 2000, subgrp: hi, Book Illumination and Archiectural Decoration: The Mausoleum of Uljaytu in Sultaniyya (Nasser Rabbat) 

Basrai, Zameer , web page   Architect, The Busride Design Studio, and Architect at Splitlabs, Mumbai, India  … SMArchS 2009, subgrp: hi, The New Citizens: A Study in Architectural Identity of Public Philanthropic Institutions Built by Two Isma`ili Communities in Contemporary Bombay (James Wescoat) 

Behle Fralick , Chelsea, web page   Lecturer, University of San Diego  … SMArchS 2012, subgrp: ht, "Art is Love is God": Wallace Berman and the Transmission of 'Aleph', 1956-66 (Caroline Jones) 

Bernier, Beatrice N ., web page   Founder, Beatrice Bazaar Cutting Edge Jewelry, London. UK  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: ht, Fashion, City, People (Leila Kinney) 

Beshir, Tarek , web page   Managing Director, Tarek Beshir Architects, Cairo  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: hi, Architecture Beyond Cultural Polictics: Western Practice in the Arabian Peninsula (Sibel Bozdogan) 

Bhalla, Arunjot , web page   Managing Director, India, RSP Architects Planners & Engineers  … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: hi, Ordering the Land: Urban Metaphors for a Park in Cairo (William Porter) 

Bilsel, Can , web page   Professor and Department Chair, Art, Architecture + Art History, University of San Diego  … SMArchS 1996, subgrp: hi, From Scientific Framing to Architectural Reconstruction: The Creation of an Ideal Image at Didyma (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from Princeton University 

Bonnemaison, Sarah , web page   Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University  … SMArchS 1985, subgrp: ht, Lightweight Structures in Urban Design (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from the University of British Columbia 

Brady, Noel J .  Creative Director, NJBA A+U; Lecturer, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: ht, Towards the Poetic (Imre Halasz) 

Bressani, Martin , web page   Professor and Director, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec  … SMArchS 1985, subgrp: ht, Rationalism and the Organic Analogy in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Auguste Perret and the Building at 25bis, rue Franklin (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from the University Paris Sorbonne-- Paris IV 

Buelow, Deborah ,  web page   Principal, CEDAR Architects, Washington, DC  … SMArchS 2010, subgrp: hd, Peripheral Memory: New York's Forgotten Landscape (Mark Jarzombek) 

Cahn, Elizabeth  Program Coordinator, Cancer Connection  … SMArchS 1986, subgrp: ht, The Lawn and the Forest: Architectural Landscape in the Work of Thomas Jefferson and Frank Lloyd Wright (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

Cakmakli, Oruc  … SMArchS 1983, subgrp: hi, Transformation of Traditional Design Concepts into Contemporary Architecture (Eric Dluhosch) 

Camerlenghi, Nicola (Nick) , web page   Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College  … SMArchS 2000, subgrp: ht, Michaelangelo's "Libreria Secreta" (David Friedman)  received a PhD from Princeton University 

Capdevila Werning, Remei  Director of Education & Public Programs, El Museo del Barrio, New York City  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: ht, Construing Reconstruction: The Barcelona Pavilion and Nelson Goodman's Aesthetic Philosophy (Erika Naginski)  received a PhD from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 

Chernyakova, Irina , PhD Candidate, Columbia University 

… SMArchS 2013, subgrp: ht, Systems of valuation (Arindam Dutta and Mark Jarzombek) 

Chowdhury, Asiya  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: hi, The Persistent Metaphor: Gender in the Representations of the Cairene House by Edward W. Lane and Hassan Fathy (Sibel Bozdogan) 

Chung, Yueh-Minne  Architect, Y Min Chung, Pinole, CA  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: ht, Columns and Walls: The Interplay between Structure and Space (Stanford Anderson) 

Chuong, Jennifer, web page   Harvard Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow 2019-2022  Research Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum  … SMArchS 2012, subgrp: ht, "Art is a Hardy Plant": Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Cultivation of a Transitional Aesthetics (Arindam Dutta and Mark Jarzombek)  received a MA from Harvard University 

Cipriani, Barbara  Project Manager II, AECOM Tishman  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: hi, Development of Construction Techniques in the Mamluk Domes of Cairo (Nasser Rabbat) 

Corm, Tamara H.  Director, Pace Gallery London  … SMArchS 2000, subgrp: hi, "La Revelation m'est venue de L'Orient" Henri Matisse, 1947 (Nasser Rabbat) 

Dackiw, Walter  Real Estate Developer - Czech Republic  … SMArchS 1985, subgrp: ht, Just Spaces, Just Places: towards a theory of Justice for human action in time and space (Edward Robbins) 

Datey, Aparna  … SMArchS 1996, subgrp: hi, Cultural Production and Identity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Madras, India (Sibel Bozdogan) 

Dawood, Azra , web page   PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2010, subgrp: hi, Failure to Engage: The Breasted-Rockefeller Gift of a New Egyptian Museum and Research Institute at Cairo (1926) (Nasser Rabbat)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 

De Costa, Alfred   … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: hi, A Reinterpretation of 'Sense of Place': A Study of the Stone Town Zanzibar (Ronald Lewcock) 

de Silva, Nushelle , web page   PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2015, subgrp: ht, Assembling Smallness: The American Small Industries Exhibition, Ceylon 1961 (Arindam Dutta) 

DeBartolo, III, Jack  DeBartolo Architects, Phoenix, AZ  … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: ht, The Perception of Illumination: The Phenomenological Dimension of Natural Light in the Making of the Urban Sanctuary (Stanford Anderson) 

Demerdash, Nancy , web page   Assistant Professor, Albion College, Albion, Michigan  … SMArchS 2009, subgrp: hi, Mapping Myths of the Medina: Orientalist Visions, French Colonial Urbanism, and the Politics of Heritage in Marrakesh (Nasser Rabbat)  received a PhD from Princeton University 

Demirtas, Aslihan  Principal, Aslihan Demirtas Design & Research  … SMArchS 2000, subgrp: hi, Artificial Nature: Water Infrastructure and its Experience as Natural Space (William Porter and Sibel Bozdoğan) 

Deser, Abigail , web page   Director & Designer, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association  … SMArchS 1991, subgrp: ht, Defining the Public: Three Moments of Audience Address in 20th Century Artistic Production (Benjamin Buchloh) 

Diaz-Borioli, Leonardo , web page   Architect; Creative Director, Estudio 3.14, Guadalajara, México  … SMArchS 2003, subgrp: ht, Tilting the Mirror: Packaging Spanish Architecture in Late Nineteenth Century California (Arindam Dutta) 

Dietz, Thomas M  Architect, BGD&C Corp. Chicago, IL  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: ht, The Road from Pope to King: Il Corso Vittorio Emanuele II (David Friedman) 

Dubbs, Katherine Pearl  ... SMArchS 2021, subgrp, ht "A Great Civilizing Agent": Architecture at MIT, Drawing Education, and Boston's Cultural Elite, 1865-1881 (Arindam Dutta)

El Hayek, Chantal , web page   PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2015, subgrp: hi, The Last Levantine City: Beirut, 1830-1930 (Nasser Rabbat) 

el-Khoury, Rodolphe , web page   Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture; Partner, Khoury Levit Fong (KLF)  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: ht, The Architecture of Montage: A Critical Inquiry into the Work of Machado/Silvetti (Francesco Passanti) received a PhD from Princeton University 

ElKatsha, Markus  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 2000, subgrp: hi, The Evolution of Al Azhar Street, Al-Qahira, Egypt (John de Monchaux) 

Elshahed, Mohamed , web page   Project Curator, The British Museum  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: hi, Facades of Modernity: Image, Performance and Transformation in the Egyptian Metropolis (Nasser Rabbat)  received a PhD from New York University 

Emami, Farshid   PhD Candidate, Harvard University  … SMArchS 2011, subgrp: hi, Civic Visions, National Politics, and International Designs: Three Proposals for a New Urban Center in Tehran (1966 - 1976) (James Wescoat) 

Erten, Erdem  Associate Professor, Izmir Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 1998, subgrp: ht, Questioning Horatios Grenough's Thoughts on Architecture (Mark Jarzombek)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Eskandari, Maryam  Principal Designer, MIIM Designs  … SMArchS 2011, subgrp: hi, Women Places and Spaces in Contemporary American Mosque (Nasser Rabbat) 

Etemad Yousefi , Arash  The Ventin Group Architects, Toronto, Canada  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: hi, Medieval Islamic and Gothic Architectural Drawings: Masons, Craftsmen and Architects (David Friedman) 

Evans, J. Chris  … SMArchS 1992, subgrp: ht, Imminence and Immanence: Embodied Meaning in Architectural Experience (Francesco Passanti) 

Feng, Zisong   … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: hi, Conceptual Urbanism: Towards a Method of Urban Form and Urban Design (William Porter) 

Fenske, Gail , web page   Professor of Architecture, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI  … SMArchS 1982, subgrp: ht, The Tower: a Study in Change of Meaning (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Fischer, Rio , web page   … SMArchS 2017, subgrp: hi, Aesthetics of the Qur'anic Epigraphy on the Taj Mahal () 

Flynn, Aidan ...SMArchS 2021, subgrp; ht, Surveilling Sin: Locating Sodomy in the Early Modern Florentine Bathhouse (Kristel Smentek)

Francisco, Scott , web page   Architect; Director, Pilot Projects Design Collective, New York, NY  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: hd, Useable Space (Mark Jarzombek) 

Friedman, Nathan , web page   Director, Departamento del Distrito, Mexico City  … SMArchS 2015, subgrp: ht, Hypothetical Geography: Constituting Limits on a New American Frontier (Ana Miljacki) 

Furguiele, Antonio , web page   Associate Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2013, subgrp: ht, Architecture of the Cloud, Virtualization Takes Command:Llearning from black boxes, data centers and an architecture of the conditioned environment (Mark Jarzombek) 

Ge, Wenjun  Architect, Boston, MA  … SMArchS 2008, subgrp: hd, Social Congestion in Shanghai: A Urban Housing Designed on Its Sections (Stanford Anderson and Yung Ho Chang) 

González, Robert , web page   Assistant Professor of Architecture, Tulane University  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: ht, Sunset Magazine: In Search of a House for Western Living (Royston Landau)  received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley 

Greeley, Robin , web page   Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Connecticut  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: ht, Image, Text and the Female Body: Rene Magritte and the Surrealist Publication (Anne Wagner) received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley 

Grigor, Talinn , web page   Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis  … SMArchS 1998, subgrp: hi, Construction of History: Mohammad-Reza Shah Revivalism, Nationalism, and Monumental Architecture of Tehran, 1951-1979 (Nasser Rabbat)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Gul, Marium   Intermediate Designer, Forrec, Ltd  … SMArchS 2011, subgrp: hi, Mitigating Floods: Reconstructing Lives: Rehabilitating Thatta (James Wescoat) 

Gulyani, Sumila  Global Lead for Urban Development Strategy and Analytics, World Bank  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 1992, subgrp: hi, Rethinking Resettlement--Employment, Negotiation and Land in Singrauli, India (Lisa Peattie)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Hadimioglu, Cagla J.  … SMArchS 2002, subgrp: hi, Proscribed Scenes from a Monument (Nasser Rabbat) 

Haider, Deeba  … SMArchS 1999, subgrp: hi, The Growing Pains of Global Cities - Struggles in the Urban Environment of Dubai and Singapore (Nasser Rabbat)  received a Consultant 

Haller Hudson, Margaret   Service Design Lead, Fjord Design  … SMArchS 2012, subgrp: ht, Delimiting The Grid: Naturalized Technology as Bodily Salvation in Domebooks 1-3 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Haq, Saif , web page   Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Texas Tech University  … SMArchS 1992, subgrp: hi, Meaning in Architecture: an Investigation of the Indigenous Environment in Bangladesh (Ronald Lewcock)  received a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology 

Hassan, S. Faisal  … SMArchS 1995, subgrp: ht, Pan - Orao and Historical Necessity: Adjusted Frames and Optical Settlement (William Mitchell) 

Hays, K. Michael , web page   Associate Dean for Academics and Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory, Harvard University  … MArchAS 1979, subgrp: ht, Reference, Coherence, Meaning: A Realist Epistemology of Art (Henry Millon)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Heard, James ...SMArchS 2022, subgrp: hi, Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947  (Arindam Dutta)

Heinemann, Svea M.  TU Berlin  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: ht, A Culture of Appropriation: Strategies of Temporary Reuse in East Germany (Mark Jarzombek) 

Hirji, Fatima  Associate Designer, ‎Denver Design Build LLC  … SMArchS 1995, subgrp: hi, Building New Thoughts: The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Nasser Rabbat) 

Holmes, Jeffrey  Architect, Riverside, CA  … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: ht, Vsevolod Meyerhold: Modernism, Mass Culture and the Russian Avant Garde Stage (Benjamin Buchloh) 

Hubbard, Bill  Retired Architect, Boston, MA  … MArchAS 1976, subgrp: ht, "A System of Formal Analysis for Architectural Composition" (Stanford Anderson) 

Ikert, Amanda  Head of Adaptation and Water, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 2005, subgrp: hi, Negotiating Community amongst Spatial and Identity Boundaries: The Case of "Unity in Diversity" in the Transmigration Settlement of Mopugad, Indonesia (John de Monchaux and Robert Cowherd) 

Ikonomidis-Doumbas, Agis , web page   Architect, Oikonomidis Architects, Athens  … SMArchS 1990, subgrp: ht, Adaptive Reuse and the Museum: Installing a Museum in a Preexisting Shell (Francesco Passanti) 

Ismail, Tanya , web page   … SMArchS 2016, subgrp: hi, Passive Architecture Tool for Exploratory Design: Case of Qatar (James Wescoat) 

Jacobson, Samuel , web page   Designer-Editor, HAHA Design, Los Angeles, CA  … SMArchS 2013, subgrp: ht, Notes on Sexuality & Space (Mark Jarzombek) 

Jalia, Aftab , web page   PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK  … SMArchS 2008, subgrp: hi, Refiguring the Sketch: The Nari Gandhi Cartographic (Stanford Anderson and Rahul Mehrotra)  received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley 

James, Allison , web page   Producer in Residence, Art, Culture and Technology Program, MIT  … SMArchS 2015, subgrp: hi, The Architecture of Procession: Political and Spiritual Pathways between the Qutb Shahi Necropolis and Golconda Fortress (Nasser Rabbat) 

Jarrar, Sabri  … SMArchS 1990, subgrp: hi, A Memory Syndrome: Selfhood and Otherness at the Wailing Wall (David Friedman) 

Johnson, Adam Fulton , web page   Assistant Professor, Michigan State  … SMArchS 2011, subgrp: ht, American Archaeology and the Conceptualization of Preservation: Edgar Lee Hewett and the Crafting of the 1906 Antiquities Act (Mark Jarzombek) 

Kallipoliti, Lydia , web page   Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2004, subgrp: hd, Dross: Re-genesis of diverse matter-a design post-praxis (Mark Goulthorpe and Ann Pendleton-Julian)  received a PhD from Princeton University 

Kanekar, Aarati    Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati  … SMArchS 1992, subgrp: hi, Celebration of Place: Processional Rituals and Urban Form (Julian Beinart)  received a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology 

Kanipak, Ömer , web page   Photographer, Yercekim Architectural Photography  … SMArchS 1998, subgrp: ht, Modernism and Dwelling: Residential Architecture in Early Republican Turkey (Sibel Bozdogan) 

Katsavounidou, Garyfallia (Fyllio)  Architect, City of Veria, Greece  … SMArchS 1998, subgrp: ht, Invisible Parentheses: Mapping (out) the City and Its Histories (Mark Jarzombek)  received a PhD from the Department of Architecture at the University of Thessaly 

Katz, Sarah , web page   Project Leader, University of Pennsylvania  … SMArchS 2012, subgrp: ht, Bonsai Imperium: Plant Capitalism in the U.S. and Japan, 1853-1924 (Caroline Jones) 

Keyvanian, Carla L. , web page   Associate Professor, Auburn University  … SMArchS 1992, subgrp: ht, Manfredo Tafuri's Notion of History and its Methodological Sources: From Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes (Benjamin Buchloh)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Khan, Masood A.  Principal, Masood A. Khan Architecture Planning and Conservation, Massachusetts; Senior Architect and Planner, Aga Khan Trust for Culture  … SMArchS 1983, subgrp: hi, 'Informal' Architecture: An Examination of Some Adaptive Processes in Architectural Tradition (Stanford Anderson) 

Khan, Sikander I.   Managing Partner, Mimar Consultants  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: hi, In Search of A Direction in the Contemporary Architecture of Arabia (Ronald Lewcock) 

Khodr, Ali , web page   Adjunct Faculty, Boston Architectural College  … SMArchS 2017, subgrp: hi, Planning a Sectarian Topography: Revisiting Michael Ecohard's Master Plans for Beirut 1941-1964 () 

Khorakiwala, Ateya Asgar , web page   2017-18 Council on the Humanities / Princeton-Mellon Fellow  … SMArchS 2009, subgrp: ht, The State of Roads: Public Works as Research, India circa 1960 (Arindam Dutta)  received a PhD from Harvard University 

Kivlan, Anna K , web page   Research Associate, Duke University  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: ht, An Eye for Vulgarity: How MoMA Saw Color through Wild Bill's Lens (Erika Naginski)  received a PhD from Duke University 

Kokkoris, Panos   … MArchAS 1980, subgrp: ht, Taste. A Commentary on its Genesis, Nature and Claims (Stanford Anderson) 

Kondur, Sunitha , web page   Partner, Hundredhands, Bangalore  … SMArchS 2000, subgrp: hi, Rediscovering "Place": Enhancing the Built Heritage of Singapore (John de Monchaux and Hasan-Uddin Khan) 

Kösebay Erkan, Yonca , web page   Associate Professor, Kadir Has University  … SMArchS 1998, subgrp: hi, An Interpretive Analysis of Matrakci Nashu's Beyan-i Menazil: Translating Text into Image (Nasser Rabbat)  received a PhD from Istanbul Technical University 

Kotab, Basel  Practice Leader, HOK, Dubai  … SMArchS 1991, subgrp: hi, Spatial Layering: An Effect of Cubist Concepts on 20th Century Architecture (Ronald Lewcock) 

Kotob, Jenine , web page   Architectural Designer, Quinn Evans Architects  … SMArchS 2013, subgrp: hi, Redefining Learning Environments in Conflict Areas: A Palestinian Case Study (James Wescoat) 

LaGuette, Victoria  … SM 1998, subgrp: hd, A Guide to Source Materials of the Life and Work of Lawrence B. Anderson '30 (Mark Jarzombek) 

Lai, Constance C  Manager of Historic Preservation Services, Grunley Construction, Rockville, MD  … SMArchS 1999, subgrp: ht, Charles Eames and Communication: from Education to Computers (Mark Jarzombek) 

Lee, Tonghoon , web page   Associate Professor, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea  … SMArchS 2002, subgrp: ht, Architecture and Tactility: Peter Zumthor's Thermal Baths in Vals and the Hybridization of the Two Motifs of Tactility--Materiality and Movement (Mark Jarzombek) 

Leiter, Jeffrey  Principal, Slumbrew Beer, Somerville, Ma  … SMArchS 1997, subgrp: ht, Erich Mendelsohn: constructing an image of modernity between Expressionism and the 1920's avant-garde (Mark Jarzombek) 

Lettow, Ash , web page   Adjunct Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee  … SMArchS 2010, subgrp: ht, The Prospect (Mark Jarzombek) 

Levashov, Georgiy   Freelance Programmer & Developer  … SMArchS 1998, subgrp: hi, Computer Analyses of the Historical Development of Bukhara City from 5th c. B.C. to the 19th c. A.D (Attilio Petruccioli ) 

Lewis, Hilary , web page   Senior Editor, Tropic Magazine  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: ht, The Rhode Island State House: The Competition (1890-1892) (Stanford Anderson) 

Liss, Alyson  Project Manager, Dineen Architecture + Design  … SMArchS 2006, subgrp: ht, The Rhetoric of Architecture and the Language of Pleasure: The Maison de Plaisance in Eighteenth Century France (Erika Naginski) 

Liuni, Francesca , web page   Independent Exhibition Designer  … SMArchS 2016, subgrp: hi, Experiencing Mathematical Proves: Syntax of an Astrolabe (Azra Aksamija and George Stiny) 

Lo, Melissa  Assistant Curator, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens  … SMArchS 2008, subgrp: ht, Ideal Pathologies: Jean-Marc Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (1831-1854) (David Friedman)  received a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University 

Long-Callesen, Semine 

… SMArchS 2020, subgrp: hi, The Raffles Museum in the shift from nature to culture (Arindam Dutta) 

Losonczy, Serena  Project Leader, University of Pennsylvania  … SMArchS 1992, subgrp: hi, The Form and Use of Public Space in a Changing Urban Context (Michael Dennis) 

Low, Kevin , web page   Director, Small Projects, Kuala Lampur, and Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland  … SMArchS 1991, subgrp: hi, The Dislocated Mind: in the Heart of Reverie (Ronald Lewcock) 

Lui, Ann Lok , web page   Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Principal, Future Firm  … SMArchS 2015, subgrp: ht, Extra-Architectural SOM and the Bureaucratic Avante-Garde (Arindam Dutta) 

Mahmood, Saman  Director, ICON Atelier, Inc  … SMArchS 1999, subgrp: hi, "Shelter Within My Reach": Medium-Rise Apartment Housing for the Middle-Income   Group in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reinhard Goethert) 

Malik, Hala Bashir , web page   Architect and Principal, Resttling the Indus, Pakistan  … SMArchS 2014, subgrp: hi, Enabling and Inhibiting Urban Development: a Case Study of Lahore Improvement Trust as a Late Colonial Institution (James Wescoat) 

Martin, Louis , web page   Professor, University of Quebec at Montreal  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: ht, Architectural Theory after 1968: Analysis of the Works of Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi (Francesco Passanti) received a PhD from Princeton University 

Mathews, Jonathan  Director, Change Management Associates Ltd  … MArchAS 1978, subgrp: ht, The Implications of Theories of Knowledge and Meanings for Theories of Architecture (Stanford Anderson) received a MBA from the London Business School 

Mazarakis, Valeria  Architect and Independent scholar  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: ht, Residences Secondaires: How Eisenman Houses Fictive Structures of History (Stanford Anderson) received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

McMahon, Catherine F.  Design Strategist, CONTIUUM, Shanghai, China  … SMArchS 2009, subgrp: ht, Between Nature and Artifice: The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979) (Arindam Dutta) 

Mejel Al-Gaood, Jalal B. , web page   Chairman, IWAN Architecture and Design  … SMArchS 1990, subgrp: hi, "Falling Upon Deaf Ears:" The Case of Colloquial Architecture (David Friedman) 

Metallinou, Vivianna  Director, Thessaloniki Network of Movements; Director, CULTURE PROJECTS, Thessaloniki  … SMArchS 1984, subgrp: ht, Regionalism and Greek Architecture: The Architecture of Dimitris and Susanna Antonakakis (Stanford Anderson) 

Miller, Carl Ray , web page   Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago  … SMArchS 1999, subgrp: ht, The Problem with Harmony: Architectural Constructs of Proportionality, Music and the Modulor in the 1950's (Mark Jarzombek) 

Minosh, Peter  Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: ht, Moderate Utopias: The Reconstruction of Urban Spaces and Modernist Principles in Postwar France (Arindam Dutta) 

Moore, Nikki , web page   Postdoctoral Fellow, Wake Forest University  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: hd, Between Work: Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser and Jacques Martin (William Porter)  received a PhD from Rice University 

Morshed, Adnan Z. , web page   Associate Professor, The Catholic University of America  … SMArchS 1995, subgrp: hi, Dialectics of Vision: The Voyages of Louis I. Kahn 1950-59 (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Mosier, Lisa , web page   PhD candidate, Tulane University  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: hi, The Morisco House in Granada: Cultural Transition and Domestic Space (Nasser Rabbat) 

Moustafa, Amer A. , web page   Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah, UAE  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: hi, Architectural Representation and Meaning: Towards a Theory of Interpretation (Ronald Lewcock)  received a PhD from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles 

Murphy, Caroline , web page   PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2016, subgrp: ht, Indexing Origins in the "Monasticon Anglicanum" (1655) (Lauren Jacobi) 

Nabil, Yasser  Diretor, MAF Properties  … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: hi, Reconciliations and Continued Polarities in the Works and Theories of Halim and Bakri (William Porter) 

Nagaya, Toshiaki  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: ht, Sei'ichi-Shirai and the Subjective Method of Synthesis (David Friedman) 

Nanda, Puja   … SMArchS 1999, subgrp: hi, The Culture of Building to Craft--a Regional Contemporary Aesthetic: Material Resources, Technological Innovations and the Form Making Process (Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian) 

Nardella, Bianca Maria , web page   PhD Candidate, The Bartlett, University College London  … SMArchS 2001, subgrp: hi, Cultural interfaces: (in)visible spaces in the Old City of Jerusalem (Hasan-Uddin Khan) 

Nasri, Muhammad  Director of the Faculty of Architecture & Design, Al-Manar University of Tripoli  … SMArchS 1989, subgrp: hi, Research Programs on Geometry and Ornament: A Case Study of Islamicist Scholarship (Stanford Anderson) 

Nicholaeff, Doreve , web page   Architect, Nicholeff Architecture + Design, Osterville, MA  … MArchAS 1979, subgrp: ht, The Planning and Development of Copley Square (David Friedman) 

Nissen, Anne  Administrator, Rockland 21st Century Collaborative for Children and Youth  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: ht, From the Cheney House to Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminist Mamah Borthwick (David Friedman) 

Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona , web page " target="blank">web page  Associate Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: ht, Erich Mendelsohn: From Berlin to Jerusalem (Royston Landau)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Oza, Nilay  Principal, Oza Sabbeth Architects  … SMArchS 2000, subgrp: hi, Puja Pandals: Rethinking an Urban Bamboo Structure (John Fernandez) 

Palleroni, Sergio , web page   Professor, Portland State University  … SMArchS 2006, subgrp: ht, The Valle del Yaqui Housing Project: Building the Capacity of Yaqui Women to Help Themselves (Mark Jarzombek) 

Pedret, Annie , web page   Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: ht, Within the Text of Kahn (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Pieris, Anoma , web page   Associate Professor, University of Melbourne  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: hi, Tall Buildings in Asia: A Critique on the High-Rise Building in Colombo, Shri Lanka (MA) TheTrouser under the Cloth: Ceylon/Sri Lanka, personal space in decolonization(SM) (Maurice K. Smith)  received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley 

Prakash, Mamta , web page   Consultant, Finanical Management Associates, NYC  … SMArchS 1999, subgrp: hi, Old market, new ideas: revitalization of Aminabad, Lucknow (Julian Beinart) 

Pyla, Panayiota , web page   Associate Professor, University of Cyprus  … SMArchS 1994, subgrp: hi, Revisiting Scientific Epistemology in Architecture: 'Ekistics' and Modernism in the Middle East (Sibel Bozdogan)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Quadri, Mahjabeen  … SMArchS 2003, subgrp: hi, Beyond the Traditional: a new paradigm for Pakistan Schools (Reinhard K. Goethert) 

Rabie, Omar  Lecturer, Auroville, Earth Institute, and Principal, Unitary Design Studio  … SMArchS 2008, subgrp: hi, Revealing the Potential of Compressed Earth Blocks: A Visual Narration (John de Monchaux and John Fernandez)  received a Master of Science from the Architectural Association School of Architecture 

Rahmlow, Rebecca S  Architect, Maryann Thompson Architects  … SMArchS 2008, subgrp: ht, "Indigenous" | "Vernacular" Negotiating an American History for Modernism Through the Lens of the Architectural Exhibition (Caroline Jones) 

Raia, Joseph   Principal, Raia Partnership  … SMArchS 1996, subgrp: hi, Essaouira, Morocco: Redevelopment through the Introduction of a University (Attilio Petruccioli) 

Ramachandran, Bijoy , web page   Partner, Hundredhands, Bangalore  … SMArchS 1998, subgrp: ht, In the Service of the Sacred: Development for Conservation (Attilio Petruccioli and Julian Beinart) 

Raman, Prassanna , web page   … SMArchS 2012, subgrp: hi, Exploring Urban Resilience: Violence and Urban Services in Karachi (James Wescoat) 

Ramirez Jasso, Diana , web page   Provost, Boston Architectural College  … SMArchS 2002, subgrp: ht, The Aesthetics of Concealment: Weegee in the Movie Theater (1943-1950) (Mark Jarzombek)  received a PhD from Harvard University 

Rashid, Mahbub  … SMArchS 1993, subgrp: hi, City Form and Changing Process: The Case of the North End, Boston, 1860-1930 (William Porter) 

Rau, Lasse ...SMarchS 2022, subgrp; hi, On Viscous Grounds: Planning for Friction across the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, 1968-1981 (Arindam Dutta)

Raynaud, Pierre  P Raynaud Architecte, Tounus, France  … MArchAS 1980, subgrp: ht, The Role of Design in City Form: Organic and Planned Towns (David Friedman) 

Rewal, Arun  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 1992, subgrp: hi, Continuity and Settlement Structure--a Study of Tradiational and Colonial Spatial Patterns in Benares, India (Julian Beinart) 

Rudorf, Wolfgang , web page   Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design  … SMArchS 1984, subgrp: ht, The Housing Division of the Public Works Administration in Its Architectural Context (Stanford Anderson) 

Rutkouskaya, Hanna , web page   with Douglas C. Wright Architects  … SMArchS 2013, subgrp: hi, Redefining Historical Bukhara: Professional Architectural Vision of the National Heritage in late Soviet Uzbekistan (1965 - 1991) (James Wescoat) 

Saad, Philippe   Senior Associate, DiMella Shaffer, Boston  … SMArchS 2005, subgrp: hi, Writings for Acquisition, Alexandria, Egyp (Nasser Rabbat) 

Sabouni, Farrah , web page   Director of Planning, AUTOARCH Architects  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 2014, subgrp: hi, Introverted Architecture and the Human Dimension: The Conflict of Placemaking in the Disconnected Urban Fabric of Doha, Qatar (Brent Ryan and Nasser Rabbat) 

Sakr, Yasir , web page   Assistant Professor, American University of Madaba, Jordan  … SMArchS 1987, subgrp: hi, The Mosque between Modernity and Tradition: A Study of Recent Design of Mosques in the Muslim World (Stanford Anderson)  received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania 

Sarnitz, August , web page   University Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria  … SM 1982, subgrp: ht, Rudolph M. Schindler: Theory and Design (Stanford Anderson) 

Sartawi, Mais  Architect, Nikken Sekkei Ltd in Dubai  … SMArchS 2010, subgrp: hi, The Lure of the West: Analyzing the Domination of Western Firms in the Gulf Region (Nasser Rabbat) 

Scensor, Sean E.  Deputy Managing Principal, Safdie Architects, Somerville, MA  … SMArchS 1995, subgrp: ht, Irving Gill and the Concrete House in California Early Modern Architecture: The Chauncey Dwight Clarke House (Ákos Moravánszky) 

Schmidt, Laura Lee , web page   PhD Student, Harvard University  … SMArchS 2010, subgrp: hi, Islamic Automata in the Absence of Wonder (Nasser Rabbat) 

Sengupta, Ranabir  Senior Associate, Urbahn Architects, New York, NY  … SMArchS 1986, subgrp: hi, Perception of Old Towns, Historicism, and Temporality (Sandra Howell) 

Sergie Attar, Lina , web page   CEO, Karam Foundation, Chicago, IL  … SMArchS 2003, subgrp: hi, Recollecting History: Songs, Flags, and A Syrian Square (Heghnar Watenpaugh) 

Shaikley, Layla Karim  Business Development Manager, Wise Systems  … SMArchS 2013, subgrp: hi, Iraq's Housing Crisis: Upgrading Settlements for IDPS (Internally Displaced Persons) (James Wescoat) 

Shetty, Rajmohan   Principal Architect, Rajmohan Shetty and Associates, Bangalore  … SMArchS 1984, subgrp: hi, The Impact of Kinship Systems in the Generation of House Types (Stanford Anderson) 

Shirokowa, Nanase ... SMarchS 2023, subgrp; ht,  When War Becomes Peace: Ruination and Transvaluation in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Parks (Caroline Jones)

Silberberg, Ross Allen  … SMArchS 1990, subgrp: ht, The Architectural Design Studio as a Method of Inquiry: A Pedagogical Model of the Development of Architectural Knowledge (Francesco Passanti) 

Singh, Rupinder  … SMArchS 1997, subgrp: ht, Piranesi's Campo Marzio plan: the palimpsest of interpretive memory (Julian Beinart) 

Sobti, Manu , web page   Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland, Australia  … SMArchS 1995, subgrp: hi, Timurid Central Asia and Mughal India: Some Correlations Regarding Urban Design Concepts and the Typology of the Muslim House (Attilio Petruccioli)  received a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology 

Srirojanapinyo, Apichart , web page   Design Director, Stu/D/O Architects, Bangkok, Thailand  … SMArchS 2009, subgrp: hd, Open to the public!: a new network of communal recreation waterfront space in Bangkok (Stanford Anderson) 

Srivastava, Manish  … SMArchS and MSRED (dual degree) 1997, subgrp: hi, Architecture and Development as Instruments for Political Control and Marginalization in Lucknow, India (William Porter and Lawrence J. Vale) 

Sutton, Summer , web page   PhD Student, Yale University  … SMArchS 2012, subgrp: hi, Implications of "Neo-Orientalist" Conservation in Fez, Morocco: Need for an Innovative Non-Profit Alternative (James Wescoat) 

Takenaka, Akiko , web page   Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky  … SMArchS 1997, subgrp: ht, The Construction of War-Time National Identity: Japanese Pavilion at New York World's Fair 1939/40 (Mark Jarzombek)  received a PhD from Yale University 

Talwar, Pratap  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 1993, subgrp: hi, Incremental Development Schemes: An Evaluation of Evolving Land Tenure Options in Khuda ki Basti, Hyderabad (Omar Razzaz) 

Taylor, Rives , web page   Regional Sustainability Leader, Principal, Genslar  … SMArchS 1988, subgrp: ht, The American College and its Architecture: An Institutional Imperative (David Friedman)  Taymuree, Zaynep ... SMArchS 2020, subgrp: hi The missing designers : a history of activists designing for racial justice (Timothy Hyde)

Testa, Peter , web page   Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture; Design Principal, Testa & Weiser  … SMArchS 1984, subgrp: ht, The Architecture of Alvaro Siza (Stanford Anderson) 

Touloumi, Olga , web page   Assistant Professor, Bard College  … SMArchS 2006, subgrp: ht, The prison of Regina Coeli: a laboratory of identity in the Post-Risorgimento Italy (Mark Jarzombek)  received a PhD from Harvard University 

Tsuneishi, Norihiko  Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, New York  … SMArchS 2010, subgrp: ht, The Work of Vitalism: Murano Togo (Stanford Anderson and Mark Jarzombek) 

Tuck, Michelle , web page   Tuck & Tuck Associates, Bolton, Mass.  … SMArchS 2000, subgrp: ht, The Moment of William Ralph Emerson's Art Club in Boston's Art Culture (Michael Leja) 

Turker, Deniz  PhD Candidate, Harvard University  … SMArchS 2007, subgrp: hi, The Oriental Flaneur: Khalil Bey and the Cosmopolitan Experience (Nasser Rabbat) 

Verbeeck, Kenny   Engineer Team Leader and Partner, Ney & Partners  … SMArchS 2006, subgrp: ht, Randomness as a Generative Principle in Art and Architecture (George N. Stiny) 

Villere, Mariel , web page   Manager for Programs, Art and Grants, Freshkills Park at NYC Department of Parks & Recreation  … SMArchS 2013, subgrp: ht, Life Behind Ruins: Constructing Documenta (Mark Jarzombek) 

Vincent Dagher, Lieza H.  Director, Plymouth Farmers Market, Plymouth, MA  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 2004, subgrp: hi, When Home Becomes World Heritage: The Case of Aleppo, Syria (Heghnar Watenpaugh) 

Wang, Chuan  … SMArchS 1992, subgrp: hi, The Transformation and Continuity of the Traditional Dwelling in Suzhou, China (Ronald Lewcock) 

Wang, Jiaqi ...SMarchS 2023, subgrp; hi, Gaming Like a State: Historical Strategy Game Victoria and "Keyboard Politics" in China (Mark Jarzombek)

Weld, Linda  Adjunct Faculty, Wentworth Institute of Technology  … SMArchS 2008, subgrp: ht, Silent Partners and Missing Links: History, Architecture and the Challenge of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum (Mark Jarzombek) 

Williamson, Emily , web page   PhD Student, Boston University  … SMArchS 2014, subgrp: hi, Understanding the Zongo: Processes of Socio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana (James Wescoat) 

Wong, Winnie Won Yin , web page   Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley  … SMArchS 2002, subgrp: ht, The Industry of Aesthetic Realism: Product Placement in the Hollywood Film (David Friedman)  received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Wood, Alexander Hilton , web page   PhD Candidate, Columbia University  … SMArchS 2012, subgrp: ht, The Engineers and the Urban System, 1968-1974 (Caroline Jones) 

Woods, Michael , web page   Operations Director, New York, and Associate Principal, Perkins+Will,  … SMArchS 1984, subgrp: ht, Theory and Practise in Architecture, A Study in Frank Lloyd Wright (Edward Robbins) 

Xu, Qianuye ... SMarchS , subgrp: ht, "Scraping and Bloodletting": Xiamen Dada and the Self-Renewing System of Reform-Era Art  Young, T. Luke   Director of Buildins & Places, AECOM Spanish Speaking Latin America  … SMArchS and MCP (dual degree) 2000, subgrp: hi, Low-Income Communities in World Heritage Cities: Revitalizing Neighborhoods in Tunis and Quito (John de Monchaux) 

Yusaf, Shundana , web page   Assistant Professor, University of Utah  … SMArchS 2001, subgrp: hi, Monument without Qualities (Mark Jarzombek)  received a PhD from Princeton University 

Zhu-Nowell, Xioarui , web page   Research Associate and Curatorial Assistant, Guggenheim Museum, NYC  … SMArchS 2017, subgrp: ht, Capitalist Realism: Making Art for Sale in Shanghai, 1999 () 

Zographaki, Stepania G.   … SMArchS 1986, subgrp: hd, Neo-Vernacular Trends Towards the Recent Past in Greece (Edward Robbins) 

First Books from Doctoral Projects

Akbar, Jamel A. , Crisis in the Built Environment: the Case of the Muslim City. Singapore: Concept Media; New York, N.Y. 1988. (Arabic version is ʻImārat al-arḍ fī al-Islām, Jiddah: Dār al-Qiblah lil-Thaqāfah al-Islāmīyah; Bayrūt: Muʼassasat ʻUlūm al-Qurʼān, 1992.) 

Akšamija, Azra , Mosque Manifesto: Propositions for Spaces of Coexistence. Berlin: Revolver Publishing 2015. 

al-Hathloul, Saleh Ali , The Arab-Muslim City: Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Physical Environment. Riyadh: Dar Al Sahan, 1996. 

Allais, Lucia , Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 

Anderson, Christy , Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 

Anderson, Glaire D. , The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba. Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2013. 

Ballon, Hilary , The Paris of Henry IV. New York/Cambridge: Architectural History Foundatioin/The MIT Press, 1991 

Bhatt, Ritu , Rethinking Aesthetics: the Role of Body in Design. New York, NY and Oxon, England, UK: Routledge 2013. 

Çelik Alexander, Zeynep , Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design.   Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017 

Fenske, Gail , The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 

Grignon, Marc , Loing Du Soleil: Architectural Practice in Quebec City During the French Regime. New York: P. Lang, 1997. 

Grigor, Talinn , Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage Under the Pahlavi Monarchs. New York: Periscope Publishing, distributed by Prestel, 2009. 

Haglund , Karl , Inventing the Charles River. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press 2003. 

Hamadeh, Shirine , The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 

Hays, K. Michael , Modernism and the posthumanist subject: the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1992. 

Isenstadt, Sandy , The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 

Jarzombek, Mark , On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. 

Karimi, Pamela , Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era. London, UK; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2013. 

Kauffman, Jordan , Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970-1990. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. 

Keyvanian., Carla L. , Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500. Leiden; Boston: Brill 2015. 

Koss, Juliet , Modernism After Wagner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 

Kraynak, Janet L. , Nauman Reiterated. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2014. 

Kroiz, Lauren , Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle. Berkeley: University of California Press; Washington, D.C : The Phillips Collection 2012. 

Lamprakos, Michele , Building a World Heritage City: Sanaa, Yemen. Burlington, VT: (Ashgate) Routledge 2015. 

Last, Nana , Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, & Architecture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. 

Lenssen, Annek a, Beautiful Agitation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 

León, Ana María , Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX 

Lopez-Duran, Fabiola , Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture in the Crafting of Modernity. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. 

McLaren, Brian L. , Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. 

Moon, Iris Jee , The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France. London; New York: Routledge, 2017.  

Morshed, Adnan Z. , Impossible Heights Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder. Minneapolis; London University of Minnesota Press 2015. 

Osman, Michael , Modernism's Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. 

Otero-Pailos, Jorge , Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 

Pai, Hyungmin , The Portfolio and the Diagram: Architecture, Discourse, and Modernity in America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 

Pedret, Annie , Team 10: An Archival History. London, UK; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2013. 

Pezolet, Nicola , Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944-1962 Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018 

Pollak, Martha , Turin 1564-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 

Rabbat, Nasser , The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. 

Rizvi, Kishwar , The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: Architecture, Religion and Power in Early Modern Iran. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 2011. 

Schwarzer, Mitchell , German Architectural Theory and the Search for Modern Identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 

Sheren, Ila , Portable Borders: Performance Art and Politics on the U.S. Frontera Since 1984. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015. 

Siry, Joseph M. , Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988. 

Steiner, Hadas A. , Beyond Archigram: The Structure of Circulation. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. 

Stieber, Nancy , Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 

Urban, Florian , Neo-Historical East Berlin: Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2009. 

Vicario, Niko , Hemispheric Integration   Materiality, Mobility, and the Making of Latin American Art Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 

Vujosevic, Tijana , Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2017. 

Wheeler, Katherine , Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture. Farnham Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT: (Ashgate) Routledge, 2014. 

Widrich, Mechtild , Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art Manchester, United Kingdom; New York: Manchester University Press, 2014 

Wong, Winnie Won Yin , Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade. Chicago, IL; London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 

Established in 1979 through an endowment from His Highness the Aga Khan, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at MIT is a unique international graduate program designed to promote, sustain, and increase the teaching of architecture of the Islamic world. It prepares students for careers in research, design, and teaching. With strong links with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Aga Khan Programs at Harvard, AKPIA concentrates on the critical study of the history and historiography of Islamic architecture; the interaction between architecture, society, and culture; strategies of urban and architectural preservation; design interventions in disaster areas and environmental and water-conserving landscape research. The siting of AKPIA in MITís Department of Architecture is intended to negate the polarizing dichotomy between the discipline of architecture (derived from Western architectural history and praxis) and Islamic Architecture, which has developed independently and in dialogue with other world architectural traditions.

AKPIA offers students a concentration in Islamic architecture and urbanism as part of the two-year SMArchS degree and the PhD program in HTC. Undergraduates may concentrate in Middle Eastern Studies using subjects offered by AKPIA. The program also has links with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).

Academic Programs

The Aga Khan Program provides financial and logistic assistance for graduate students who are working on Islamic subjects, but it is not a degree program. The courses of study funded at MIT by the Aga Khan Program are listed below. Program funds are available to graduate students in Islamic art, architecture, urban history, and the history of landscape architecture. At MIT, only students who have been admitted to, or are already enrolled in, the PhD program in History, Theory, and Criticism in the Department of Architecture or the SMArchS program, with a concentration in Architectural Studies of the Islamic World, are eligible for AKPIA funding. However, since funds are very limited, no student should expect full support.

Spring 2024 public program

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MA & PhD in Architecture

Ucla architecture and urban design offers two academic graduate degrees: the master of arts in architecture (ma) and doctor of philosophy in architecture (phd)..

The programs produce students whose scholarship aims to provoke and operate within architecture’s public, professional, and scholarly constituencies. Both programs are supported by the Standing Committee, made up of six faculty members: Michael Osman (MA/PhD program director), Cristóbal Amunátegui , Dana Cuff , Samaa Elimam , Salmaan Craig , and Ayala Levin . A number of visiting faculty teach courses to expand the range of offerings.

Applications for the MA/PhD program (Fall 2025 matriculation) are completed via the UCLA Application for Graduate Admission , and are due January 6, 2025. Candidates will be notified of decisions in March 2025; admitted candidates who wish to accept the offer of matriculation must submit their Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) by April 15, 2025.

All MA and PhD students are required to enroll in a two-year colloquium focused on methods for writing, teaching, and researching in the field of architecture. The six courses that constitute the colloquium train students in the apparatus of academic scholarship. Over the two-year sequence, students produce original research projects and develop skills in long-format writing.

Research Opportunities

The intellectual life of the students in the MA and PhD programs are reinforced by the increasing number of opportunities afforded to students through specialized faculty-led research projects. These include cityLAB-UCLA and the Urban Humanities Institute .

MA in Architecture

This program prepares students to work in a variety of intellectual and programmatic milieus including historical research, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary studies with particular emphasis on connections with geography, design, art history, history of science and literary studies, as well as studio and design based research.

Beyond the core colloquium, MA students take a series of approved courses both at UCLA AUD and across campus. The MA program is a two-year degree, culminating in a thesis. The thesis is developed from a paper written by the student in their coursework and developed in consultation with the primary advisor and the standing committee. In addition to courses and individual research, students often participate in collective, project-based activities, including publications, symposia and exhibitions.

The program is distinguished by its engagement with contemporary design and historical techniques as well by the unusual balance it offers: fostering great independence and freedom in the students’ courses of study while providing fundamental training in architectural scholarship.

Recent MA Theses

• Jacqueline Meyer, “Crafting Utopia: Paolo Soleri and the Building of Arcosanti.”
• Joseph Maguid, “The Architecture of the Videogame: Architecture as the Link Between Representational and Participatory Immersion.”
• Meltem Al, “The Agency of Words and Images in the Transformation of Istanbul: The Case of Ayazma.”
• Courtney Coffman, “Addressing Architecture and Fashion: On Simulacrum, Time and Poché.”
• Joseph Ebert, “Prolegomena to a Poiesis of Architectural Phenomenology.”
• Jamie Aron, “Women Images: From the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop to the Knoll Textile Division.”
• Gustave Heully, “Moldy Assumptions.”
• Brigid McManama, “Interventions on Pacoima Wash: Repurposing Linear Infrastructure into Park Spaces.”

MA Typical Study Program

PhD in Architecture

This program prepares students to enter the academic professions, either in architectural history, architectural design, or other allied fields. PhD students are trained to teach courses in the history and theory of architecture while also engaging in studio pedagogy and curatorial work. In addition to the colloquium, PhD students take a series of approved courses both at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and across campus. They select these courses in relation to their own research interests and in consultation with their primary advisor. The priorities for selection are breadth of knowledge and interdisciplinary experience that retains a focused area of expertise. To this end, the students identify Major and Minor Fields of study. The Minor Field is generally fulfilled by satisfactorily completing three courses given by another department and the Major Field by five courses offered by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.

Once coursework is completed, PhD students move to the Comprehensive Exam, Qualifying Exam, and the writing of a dissertation, and final defense, if deemed appropriate by the doctoral committee. In the transition from coursework to exams, PhD students work on one paper beyond its original submission as coursework. The paper begins in the context of a departmental seminar, but often continues either in the context of an independent study, summer mentorship, or a second seminar with faculty consent. Upon the research paper’s acceptance, students begin preparing for their comprehensive exam. Before their third year, students must also satisfactorily complete three quarters of language study or its equivalent according to University standards. The particular language will be determined in consultation with the Standing Committee. The Comprehensive Exam is administered by at least two members of the Standing Committee and at most one faculty member from another Department at UCLA, also a member of the Academic Senate.

The Comprehensive Exam tests two fields: the first covers a breadth of historical knowledge—300 years at minimum—and the second focuses on in-depth knowledge of a specialization that is historically and thematically circumscribed. Students submit an abstract on each of these fields, provide a substantial bibliography, and prepare additional documentation requested by their primary advisor. These materials are submitted to the committee no less than two weeks before the exam, which occurs as early as the end of the second year. Students are encouraged to complete the Comprehensive Exam no later than the end of their third year of study.

The Comprehensive Exam itself consists of two parts: an oral component that takes place first, and then a written component. The oral component is comprised of questions posed by the committee based on the student’s submitted materials. The goal of the exam is for students to demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge of their chosen field. The written component of the exam (which may or may not be waived by the committee) consists of a written response to a choice of questions posed by the committee. The goal of this portion of the exam is for students to demonstrate their research skills, their ability to develop and substantiate an argument, and to show promise of original contribution to the field. Students have two weeks to write the exam. After the committee has read the exam, the advisor notifies the student of the committee’s decision. Upon the student’s successful completion of the Comprehensive Exam, they continue to the Qualifying Exam.

Students are expected to take the Qualifying Exam before the beginning of the fourth year. The exam focuses on a dissertation prospectus that a student develops with their primary advisor and in consultation with their PhD committee. Each student’s PhD committee consists of at least two members of the Standing Committee and one outside member from another department at the University (and a member of the Faculty Senate). Committees can also include faculty from another institution. All committees are comprised of at least three members of UCLA Academic Senate. The prospectus includes an argument with broad implications, demonstrates that the dissertation will make a contribution of knowledge and ideas to the field, demonstrates mastery of existing literature and discourses, and includes a plan and schedule for completion.

The PhD dissertation is written after the student passes the qualifying exam, at which point the student has entered PhD candidacy. The dissertation is defended around the sixth year of study. Students graduating from the program have taken posts in a wide range of universities, both in the United States and internationally.

Recent PhD Dissertations

• Marko Icev, "Building Solidarity: Architecture After Disaster and The Skopje 1963 Post-Earthquake Reconstruction." ( Read )
• Anas Alomaim, "Nation Building in Kuwait, 1961-1991."
• Tulay Atak, “Byzantine Modern: Displacements of Modernism in Istanbul.”
• Ewan Branda, “Virtual Machines: Culture, telematique, and the architecture of information at Centre Beaubourg, 1968–1977.”
• Aaron Cayer, "Design and Profit: Architectural Practice in the Age of Accumulation"
• Per-Johan Dahl, “Code Manipulation, Architecture In-Between Universal and Specific Urban Spaces.”
• Penelope Dean, “Delivery without Discipline: Architecture in the Age of Design.”
• Miriam Engler, “Gordon Cullen and the ‘Cut-and-Paste’ Urban Landscape.”
• Dora Epstein-Jones, “Architecture on the Move: Modernism and Mobility in the Postwar.”
• Sergio Figueiredo, “The Nai Effect: Museological Institutions and the Construction of Architectural Discourse.”
• Jose Gamez, “Contested Terrains: Space, Place, and Identity in Postcolonial Los Angeles.”
• Todd Gannon, “Dissipations, Accumulations, and Intermediations: Architecture, Media and the Archigrams, 1961–1974.”
• Whitney Moon, "The Architectural Happening: Diller and Scofidio, 1979-89"
• Eran Neuman, “Oblique Discourses: Claude Parent and Paul Virilio’s Oblique Function Theory and Postwar Architectural Modernity.”
• Alexander Ortenberg, “Drawing Practices: The Art and Craft of Architectural Representation.”
• Brian Sahotsky, "The Roman Construction Process: Building the Basilica of Maxentius"
• Marie Saldana, “A Procedural Reconstruction of the Urban Topography of Magnesia on The Maeander.”
• David Salomon, “One Thing or Another: The World Trade Center and the Implosion of Modernism.”
• Ari Seligmann, “Architectural Publicity in the Age of Globalization.”
• Zheng Tan, “Conditions of The Hong Kong Section: Spatial History and Regulatory Environment of Vertically Integrated Developments.”
• Jon Yoder, “Sight Design: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner.”

A Sampling of PhD Alumni and Their Pedagogy

Iman Ansari , Assistant Professor of Architecture, the Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Tulay Atak , Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt School of Architecture

Shannon Starkey , Associate Professor of Architecture, University of San Diego

Ece Okay , Affiliate Research, Université De Pau Et Des Pays De L'adour

Zheng Tan , Department of Architecture, Tongji University

Pelin Yoncaci , Assistant Professor, Department Of Architecture, Middle East Technical University

José L.S. Gámez , Interim Dean, College of Arts + Architecture, UNC Charlotte

Eran Neuman , Professor, School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University

Marie Saldana , Assistant Professor, School of Interior Architecture, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Sergio M. Figueiredo , Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

Rebecca Choi , Assistant Professor of Architecture History, School of Architecture, Tulane University

Will Davis , Lecturer in History, Theory and Criticism, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore

Maura Lucking , Faculty, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Kyle Stover , Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Montana State University

Alex Maymind , Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture, University of Minnesota

Gary Riichirō Fox , visiting faculty member at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and lecturer at USC School of Architecture

Randy Nakamura , Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco

Aaron Cayer , Assistant Professor of Architecture History, School of Architecture + Planning, University of New Mexico

Whitney Moon , Associate Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Todd Gannon , Professor of Architecture, the Knowlton School, Ohio State University

Dora Epstein Jones , Professor of Practice, School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin

Sarah Hearne , Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver

PhD Typical Study Program

*The choice of language to fulfill this requirement must be discussed with the Ph.D. Standing Committee

Our Current PhD Cohort

AUD's cohort of PhD candidates are leaders in their fields of study, deepening their scholarship at AUD and at UCLA while sharing their knowledge with the community.

Adam Boggs is a sixth year Ph.D candidate and interdisciplinary artist, scholar, educator and Urban Humanist. His research and teaching interests include the tension between creativity and automation, craft-based epistemologies, and the social and material history of architecture at the U.S.-Mexico border. He holds a BFA in Sculpture Cum Laude from the Ohio State University, and an MFA in Visual Art from the State University of New York at Purchase College. Prior to joining the doctoral program at UCLA he participated in courses in Architecture (studio and history) at Princeton University and Cornell University. His dissertation analyzes the history of indigenous labor during the Mexican baroque period to form a comparative analysis with the 20th century Spanish revival architecture movement in Southern California and how the implementation of the style along the U.S.-Mexico border might function as a Lefebvrian “thirdspace” that disrupts binary thinking. In Spring 2024 he will teach an undergraduate seminar course at AUD on the history of architecture at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the CUTF program.

Hanyu Chen is a second-year doctoral student at UCLA AUD. Her research focuses on the intersection between (sub)urban studies, heritage conservation, and the genders of the space. Specifically, it concerns the dynamics of genders in (sub)urban areas and how these dynamics are conserved as heritage. Born and raised in China for her first 18 years, Hanyu chose the conservation of comfort stations in China as her master's thesis at the University of Southern California, where she earned her master’s degree in Heritage Conservation and officially started her journey in architecture. Her thesis discusses the fluidity and genders of comfort stations and how they survive in contemporary China’s heritage conservation policies.

Hanyu also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in AMS (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) and Art History from Stony Brook University.

Yixuan Chen

Yixuan Chen is an architectural designer and a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. Driven by an impulse to demystify both the grand promises and trivial familiarities of architecture, her research embarks on the notion of everydayness to elucidate the power dynamics it reveals. She investigates the conflicts between these two ends and focuses on modernization across different times and places.

Prior to joining UCLA AUD, she was trained as an architect and graduated from the University of Nottingham's China Campus with a first-class honors degree. Her graduation project “Local Culture Preservation Centre,” which questioned the validity of monumental architecture in the climate crisis, was nominated for the RIBA President's Medal in 2016.

She also holds a Master of Arts degree with distinction in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her dissertation, “Shijing, on the Debris of Shijing,” explores the vanishing shijing places, or urban villages, where rural migrant workers negotiate their urban identity in Chinese cities, revealing shifting power relations. Additionally, she authored an article in Prospectives Journal titled "Architectural Authorship in ‘the Last Mile,’" advocating for a change to relational architectural authorship in response to the digital revolution in architecture.

Pritam Dey is an urban designer and second-year doctoral student at UCLA AUD. His research interest lies at the intersection of colonial urbanism, sensorial history, and somatic inquiries. His architecture thesis investigated the crematorium and temple as sensorial infrastructure, and was presented at World Architecture Congress at Seoul in 2017. Previously Dey worked in the domain of urban design, specifically informal markets, as a shaper of urbanism in Indian cities. Prior to joining the AUD doctoral program, his past research focused on investigating the role of informal and wholesale markets in shaping up urbanity in the Indian city cores and co-mentored workshops on Urbanity of Chitpur Road, Kolkata with ENSAPLV, Paris which was both exhibited at Kolkata and Paris. He also co-mentored the documentation of the retrospective landscape of Hampi with the support of ENSAPLV and French Embassy. His investigations on the slums of Dharavi title ‘The tabooed city’ was published in the McGill University GLSA Research series 2021 under the theme: the city an object or subject of law?

An urban designer and architect, Pritam Dey pursued his post graduation from School of planning and Architecture, Delhi. During his academic tenure at SPA, he was the recipient of 2018 Design Innovation Center Fellowship for Habitat design allowing him to work on the social infrastructure for less catered communities in the Sub Himalayan Villages. In 2022 He mentored a series of exhibitions on the theme of Water, Mountains and Bodies at Ahmadabad.

He was the 2022-23 Urban Humanities Initiatives Fellow at UCLA and recipient of 2023 UCLA Center for India and South Asia fellowship for his summer research.

Carrie Gammell

Carrie Gammell is a doctoral candidate working at the intersection of architectural history, property law, and political economy. Her research focuses on claims, investments, and intermediary organizations in the United States, from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing Act of 1934.

Carrie is also a Senior Research Associate at cityLAB UCLA, where she studies state appropriations for California community college student housing. In the past, she contributed to Education Workforce Housing in California: Developing the 21st Century Campus, a report and companion handbook that provides a comprehensive overview of the potential for land owned by school districts to be designed and developed for teachers and other employees.

Prior to joining AUD, Carrie worked as an architectural designer in Colombia and the United States, where she built a portfolio of affordable housing, multi-family residential, and single-family residential projects as well as civic and cultural renovations and additions. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Master in Design Studies (Critical Conservation) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Anirudh Gurumoorthy

Anirudh Gurumoorthy is a PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. His dissertation, tentatively titled (Un)Certain Tropics and the Architecture of Certain Commodities, 1803-1926, focuses on the spatial and environmental histories of natural history/sciences in the long-nineteenth century as it related to the political economy of empire within South Asia. He is interested in the ways the materiality of commodity extraction and production contends with how, where, and why certain ‘tropical’ animals, vegetables, and minerals are attributed with a metropolitan sense of ‘value’. Moving from the United States to Britain (and back) through various parts of the Indian Ocean world as markets for singular forms of ice, rubber, and cattle form, peak, and collapse, the dissertation ultimately aims to reveal interconnected spatial settings of knowledge, control, regulation, display, and labor where knowledge systems, technical limits, human and nonhuman action/inaction, differentiated senses of environments and value continually contend with each other to uphold the fetishes of the world market. Gurumoorthy holds a B.Arch. from R.V. College of Architecture, Bangalore, and an M.Des in the History and Philosophy of Design and Media from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Chi-Chia Hou

Chi-Chia Hou is a doctoral candidate in his sixth year at UCLA AUD. His working dissertation, “New Frontier: Architecture and Service 1893-1960,” explores his interest in architecture and wealth, changing ideas of profit and management, and social scientific discourses for measuring work and worker, self and others, and values of landed property.

His research locates moments of theorizing methodologies to manage income-generating properties in schools of agriculture, home economics, and hotel studies. The schools taught their students theories, while instilling the imminence of faithful direction of oneself, of self-as-property. The pedagogies, existing beyond the purview of Architecture, were of immense architectural consideration.

Chi-Chia Hou took a break from school in the previous academic year to learn from his daughter and has now returned to school to learn from his brilliant cohorts.

Adam Lubitz

Adam Lubitz is an urban planner, heritage conservationist, and doctoral student. His research engages the intersection of critical heritage studies and migration studies, with an emphasis on how archival information can inform reparations. His community-based research has been most recently supported by the Columbia GSAPP Incubator Prize as well as the Ziman Center for Real Estate and Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA.

Prior to joining AUD, Adam worked at World Monuments Fund within their Jewish Heritage Program, and taught GIS coursework at Barnard College. His master's thesis applied field research with experimental mapping techniques in the old town of a municipality in Palestine. Adam holds MS degrees in Historic Preservation and Urban Planning from Columbia University and a BA in Urban Studies from New College of Florida.

José Monge is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His dissertation, titled Maritime Labor, Candles, and the Architecture of the Enlightenment (1750-1872) , focuses on the role that whale-originated illuminants, specifically spermaceti candles and oil, played in the American Enlightenment as an intellectual project and the U.S. as a country. By unravelling the tension between binaries such as intellectual and manual labor–the consumers that bought these commodities and the producers that were not able to afford them–the project understands architecture as a history of activities that moved from sea to land and land to sea, challenging assumptions about the static “nature” of architecture.

Kurt Pelzer

Kurt Pelzer is a fourth-year PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. Their research explores the relational histories, material flows, and politics of land in and beyond California in the long nineteenth century during the United States parks, public lands, and conservation movements.

Their current scholarship traces the settler possession and exhibitionary display of a Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the 1850s; an act that contested the ways Miwok peoples ancestral to California's Sierra Nevada knew and related to life and land. Their broader interests include histories of colonialism and capitalism in the Americas, environmental history, and Blackness and Indigeneity as a methodological analytic for political solidarities and possibilities.

Prior to arriving at UCLA, Pelzer worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the Architecture and Design Curatorial Department participating in exhibitions, programming, and collections work. Pelzer completed a Master of Advanced Architectural Design in the History, Theory, and Experiments program from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and earned their Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the College of Design at Iowa State University.

Shota Vashakmadze

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Shota Vashakmadze is a sixth-year PhD candidate at UCLA AUD. His dissertation traces the conjoined histories of architectural computing, environmental design, and professional practice in the late 20th century, adopting critical approaches to architecture’s technical substrates—the algorithms, softwares, and user protocols of computation—to examine their social and political dispositions. In his scholarship and pedagogy, he aims to situate forms of architectural labor within the profession’s ongoing acculturation to environmental crisis. Most recently, he has been leading the development of the interdisciplinary “Building Climates” cluster, a year-long course sequence at UCLA, and co-organizing an initiative dedicated to fostering discourse on climate change and architecture, including a two-day conference entitled “Architecture After a Green New Deal.”

His research has been supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and appeared in journals including Architectural Theory Review , The Avery Review, and Pidgin Magazine. He is currently completing a contribution to a collection on landscape representation and a chapter for an edited volume on architecture, labor, and political economy.

Shota holds an MArch from Princeton University and has a professional background in architecture, landscape, and software development. Before coming to UCLA, he researched methods for designing with point cloud data and wrote Bison, a software plugin for landscape modeling.

Alexa Vaughn

Alexa Vaughn (ASLA, FAAR) is a first year PhD student in Architecture + Urban Design and a Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow , from Long Beach, California. She is a Deaf landscape designer, accessibility specialist, consultant, and recent Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2022-23). She is a visionary speaker, thought leader, prolific writer and researcher, and the author of “ DeafScape : Applying DeafSpace to Landscape,” which has been featured in numerous publications.

Her professional work is centered upon designing public landscapes with and for the Deaf and disabled communities, applying legal standards and Universal Design principles alongside lived experience and direct participation in the design process. She is an expert in designing landscapes for the Deaf community (DeafScape) and in facilitation of disabled community engagement. Prior to joining the A+UD program, Alexa worked for several landscape architecture firms over the course of six years, including OLIN and MIG, Inc.

Through a disability justice lens, her dissertation will seek to formally explore the historical exclusionary and inaccessible design of American urban landscapes and public spaces, as well as the response (activism, policy, and design) to this history through the present and speculative future. She will also actively take part in activist- and practice-based research with cityLAB and the Urban Humanities Institute .

Alexa holds both a BA in Landscape Architecture (with a minor in Conservation and Resource Studies) and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) from the University of California, Berkeley, with specialization in accessible and inclusive design. Much of her work can be found at www.designwithdisabledpeoplenow.com and on Instagram: @DeafScape.

Yashada Wagle

Yashada Wagle is a third year PhD student in Critical Studies at UCLA AUD, and a recipient of the department's Moss Scholarship. Her research focuses on imperial environmental-legislative regimes in British colonial India in the late nineteenth century. She is interested in exploring questions around the histories of spaces of extraction and production as they network between the metropole and the colony, and their relationship with the conceptions of laboring bodies therein. Her master's thesis focused on the Indian Forest Act of 1865, and elucidated the conceptualization of the space of the ‘forest’ through the lenses of its literary, legislative, and biopolitical trajectories, highlighting how these have informed its contemporary lived materiality.

Wagle holds a Bachelor in Architecture (BArch) from the Savitribai Phule Pune University in India, and a Master in Design Studies (History and Philosophy of Design and Media) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA) in Mumbai, India.

In her spare time, Wagle enjoys illustrating and writing poetry, some of which can be found here .

Dexter Walcott

Dexter Walcott is a registered architect currently in his fifth year with the Critical Studies of Architecture program at UCLA. His research focuses on the Latrobe family and early nineteenth century builders in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. He is interested in the role of the built environment in histories of labor, capitalism, steam-power, and industry.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Joy is a fifth-year PhD student in architecture history. Her research explores geology as antiquity from early 19th – 20th century British colonial Hong Kong and China. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature with a focus in German from Middlebury College in 2017, and is a graduate of The New Normal program at Strelka Institute, Moscow in 2018. Previously, she has taught in the Department of Architecture at University of Hong Kong, as well as the Department of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

After working as a curatorial assistant at Tai Kwun Contemporary in 2019, she has continued the practice of art writing and translation, collaborating with many local Hong Kong artists as well as international curators such as Raimundas Malašauskas. In her spare time, she practices long-distance open water swimming. In 2022, she completed a 30km course at the South of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

The MA and PhD programs welcome and accept applications from students with a diverse range of backgrounds. These programs are designed to help those interested in academic work in architecture develop those skills, so we strongly encourage that you become familiar with fundamental, celebrated works in the history and theory of architecture before entering the program.

Applicants to the academic graduate programs must hold a Bachelor’s degree, or the foreign equivalent. All new students must enter in the fall quarter. The program is full-time and does not accept part-time students.

Applications for the MA and PhD programs (Fall 2024 matriculation) will be available in Fall 2023, with application deadline of January 6, 2024; please revisit this page for updates. Accepted candidates who wish to enroll must file an online Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) by April 15, 2024.

How to Apply

Applying to the MA and PhD programs is an online process via the UCLA Application for Graduate Admission (AGA).

Completing the requirements will take some time, so we strongly recommend logging in to the AGA in advance to familiarize yourself with the site and downloading the documents and forms you will need to complete your application.

You can also download this checklist to make sure you have prepared and submitted all the relevant documents to complete your application.

Your Statement of Purpose is a critical part of your application to the MA and PhD programs. It is your opportunity to introduce yourself and tell us about your specific academic background, interests, achievements, and goals. Our selection committee use it to evaluate your aptitude for study, as well as consideration for merit-based financial support.

Your statement can be up to 1500 words in length. Below are some questions you might want to consider. You don’t need to answer every question; just focus on the elements that are most relevant to you.

• What is your purpose in applying to the MA or PhD program? Describe your area(s) of research interest, including any areas of concentration and specialization.
• What experiences have prepared you for this program? What relevant skills have you gained from these experiences? Have your experiences led to specific or tangible outcomes that would support your potential to contribute to this field (e.g. performances, publications, presentations, awards or recognitions)?
• What other information about your past experience might help the selection committee in evaluating your suitability for this program? E.g. research, employment, teaching, service, artistic or international experiences through which you have developed skills in leadership, communication, project management, teamwork, or other areas.
• Why is UCLA Architecture and Urban Design the best place for you to pursue your academic goals?
• What are your plans for your career after earning this degree?

Your Personal Statement is your opportunity to provide additional information to help the selection committee evaluate your aptitude for study. It will also be used to consider candidates for UCLA Graduate Division fellowships related to diversity. You can read more about the University of California Diversity Statement here .

Your statement can be up to 500 words in length. Below are some questions you might want to consider. You don’t need to answer every question; just focus on the elements that are most relevant to you.

• Are there educational, personal, cultural, economic, or social experiences, not described in your Statement of Purpose, that have shaped your academic journey? If so, how? Have any of these experiences provided unique perspective(s) that you would contribute to your program, field or profession?
• Describe challenge(s) or barriers that you have faced in your pursuit of higher education. What motivated you to persist, and how did you overcome them? What is the evidence of your persistence, progress or success?
• How have your life experiences and educational background informed your understanding of the barriers facing groups that are underrepresented in higher education?
• How have you been actively engaged (e.g., through participation, employment, service, teaching or other activities) in programs or activities focused on increasing participation by groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education?
• How do you intend to engage in scholarly discourse, research, teaching, creative efforts, and/or community engagement during your graduate program that have the potential to advance diversity and equal opportunity in higher education?
• How do you see yourself contributing to diversity in your profession after you complete your academic degree at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design?

A Curriculum Vitae (résumé of your academic and professional experience) is recommended but not required.

Applicants must upload a scanned copy of the official transcripts from each college or university you have attended both in the U.S. and abroad. If you are accepted into the program you will be required to submit hard copies. These can either be sent directly from each institution or hand-delivered as long as they remain in the official, signed, sealed envelopes from your college or university. As a general rule, UCLA Graduate Division sets a minimum required overall grade-point average of 3.0 (B), or the foreign equivalent.

As of this Fall 2023 cycle, the GRE is NOT required as part of your application to UCLA AUD. No preference will be given to those who choose to submit GRE scores as part of their application.

However, if you do take the GRE exam and wish to include it as part of your application: More information on this standardized exam can be found at www.ets.org/gre . In addition to uploading your GRE scores, please direct ETS to send us your official score sheets. Our ETS codes for the GRE are below:

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Institution Code: 4837 Department Code: 4401

We recommend you take the exam at least three weeks before the application deadline as it usually takes 2-3 weeks for ETS to send us the test scores.

If you have received a Bachelor’s degree in a country where the official language of instruction and primary spoken language of daily life is not English, you must submit either a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Exempt countries include Australia, Barbados, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This is a requirement that is regardless of your visa or citizenship status in the United States.

To be considered for admission to the M.Arch. program, international students must score at least a 92 on the TOEFL or a 7 on the IELTS exam. Because processing, sending, and receiving TOEFL and IELTS scores can take several weeks, international students must schedule their exam no later than October 31 in order to meet UCLA deadlines. TOEFL scores must be sent to us directly and uploaded as part of the online submission. Our ETS codes for the TOEFL are below:

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Institution Code: 4837 Department Code: 12

If your score is less than 100 on the TOEFL or 7.5 on the IELTS, you are also required to take the English as a Second Language Placement Examination (ESLPE) on arrival at UCLA. The results of this test will determine any English as a Second Language (ESL) courses you need to take in your first term of residence. These courses cannot be applied towards your minimum course requirements. As such, you should expect to have a higher course load than students not required to take ESL courses.

If you have earned a degree or completed two years of full-time college-level coursework in the following countries, your TOEFL / IELTS and ESLPE requirements will be waived: U.S., U.K., Canada (other than Quebec), Australia, and New Zealand. Please provide official transcripts to demonstrate course completion. Unfortunately, we cannot accept any other documentation to demonstrate language proficiency.

Three (3) letters of recommendation are required. These letters should be from individuals who are familiar with your academic and professional experiences and can evaluate your capacity to successfully undertake graduate studies at UCLA. If you do not have an architecture background please note that we are looking for letters that evaluate your potential as a graduate student, not necessarily your architecture experience.

Letters of recommendation must be sent electronically directly to UCLA by the recommender. When logged in, you can enter the name and email address of each of your recommenders. They will be contacted by email with a request to submit a letter on your behalf. You can track which letters have and have not been received. You can also send reminders to your recommenders to send their letters.

Writing samples should illustrate an applicant’s capacities for research, analytical writing and scholarly citation. Texts may include seminar papers, theses, and/or professional writing.

Please complete and submit the Department Supplement Form to confirm your intention to apply to the MA or PhD program.

Ph.D. in Architecture

The PhD in Architecture (PhD-Arch) program at Carnegie Mellon advances interpretive, critical and contextual perspectives on the built environment and spatial design. The program offers students an interdisciplinary platform to investigate built environment cultures, practices and politics across a range of historical and geographical contexts.

Nida Rehman

Assistant Professor & PhD-Arch Track Chair

Program Overview

The PhD in Architecture (PhD-Arch) program at Carnegie Mellon advances interpretive, critical and contextual perspectives on the built environment and spatial design. Bringing together methods in history of architecture, urban studies, critical spatial practices, environmental humanities, digital humanities, environmental justice and community-oriented research, the program offers students an interdisciplinary platform to investigate built environment cultures, practices and politics across a range of historical and geographical contexts.

The intellectual foundation of the program is informed by Carnegie Mellon Architecture’s commitments to racial and spatial justice in architectural epistemology, pedagogy and practice. The program builds on and extends the foundational work in the school in the area of community-oriented urban design and research and is supported by the wide-ranging expertise and resources in the school and across the university, particularly in the arts and humanities.

Admission Information

Learn more about the PhD-Arch curriculum below.

PhD-Arch Curriculum

Program Faculty

For more information about the PhD-Arch program, please contact track chair Nida Rehman .

William J. Bates

Adjunct Faculty

Erica Cochran Hameen

Associate Professor, DEI Director & DDes Track Chair

Stefan Gruber

Associate Professor, MUD Track Chair & RCI Director

Kai Gutschow

Associate Professor & Associate Head for Design Ethics

Kristen Kurland

Teaching Professor

Francesca Torello

Special Faculty

Admissions Resources

Are you a current student looking for resources? Handbooks, procedures and other information can be found on the Student Resources page .

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History of Architecture and Urban Development Degree Details

The History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) program at Cornell offers a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.), and represents a sophisticated blend of interdisciplinary research and scholarship. Projects, lectures, and publications produced within the HAUD program showcase the diverse range of topics and methodologies embraced by the field. The number and stature of awards, fellowships, and conference invitations HAUD students receive underscore the vitality of the program.

• HAUD Student Profiles
• HAUD Program Requirements

Recent HAUD Student Accomplishment Highlights

Publications.

• Athanasiou Geolas, "The Image of the (Out-of-work) Architect," in Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space, edited by Chad Randl & D. Medina Lasansky (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023), pp. 7–10.
• Aslıhan Günhan, "Bourgeoisie Wealth, Architecture and Infrastructure: Azaryan Family in Late Ottoman Istanbul," Capitalistic Urbanization in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Armenian Agencies special issue of Yıllık: Annual of Istanbul Studies, edited by Yaşar Tolga Cora and Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz (forthcoming, 2023).
• Aslıhan Günhan, "A Retrospective Oral History Inquiry with Vedat Özsan: The Ministry of National Education Building and Architectural Practice Between 1950-1980," (Vedat Özsan'la Geriye Dönük Bir Sözlü Tarih Denemesi: Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Yapısı ve 1950-1980 Arası Mimarlık Pratiği), in Ankara'da İz Bırakan Mimarlar: Vedat Özsan edited by Nuray Bayraktar (Ankara: VEKAM, 2023 forthcoming).
• Aslıhan Günhan, "Living on Another Displacement's Ruins: Adana's Döşeme Neighborhood in Turkey," Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas, eds. Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi (London: Routledge, 2023).
• Aslıhan Günhan, "Ankara Train Station in the Shadow of Violence," in Journal of Urban History (minor revision received, forthcoming).
• Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "From Formalism to Weak Form" by Stefano Corbo. (Tehran: Fekr-e No, 2023).
• Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "Aesthetic Theory" by Theodor Adorno (Tehran: Nimazh, forthcoming).
• Piergianna Mazzocca, "Bedside Care: Nursing Practice in the Emergence of the Modern Hospital." Book chapter in Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common, edited by Brittany Utting. Routledge, 2023 (forthcoming).
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, "Le dune, i ribelli, e la stagione turistica. Tre aspetti della centralità del deserto nella occupazione italiana della Libia," in Deserts Are Not Empty, ed. Samia Henni (Siracuse: Letteraventidue, 2023) (forthcoming).
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, "Histories of the Channel of Sicily. Architecture, Colonization, and Migrations across the Mediterranean Shores (1932-1943)." South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2023; 122 (2): 257–279.
• Ecem Saricayir, "Calvino Travels to the East: Invisible Cities, Open Architecture, and Orientalism," in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World: Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders, ed. Elio Baldi and Cecilia Schwartz (Routledge, forthcoming).
• Ecem Saricayir, "Homogenizing the Border: Kars after the Pogrom of 1955," in Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas, eds. Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi (Routledge, 2023).
• Ecem Saricayir, "Architect of Nothingness: Frank van Klingeren's Open Architecture," Footprint 16, no: 2 (2022): 145-156.
• Ecem Saricayir, "'Against the Privatised, the Preconditioned, and the Asylum-like:' Frank van Klingeren's Challenge to Open Architecture," The Journal of Architecture 27, no:2 (2022): 202-224. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2022.2086151.
• Alican Taylan, and Şahinler, Mehmet. "Rituals, Reality, and its Double," in Architecture, Film, and the In-between, James Kerestes and Vahid Vahdat eds., Intellect.
• Alican Taylan, "Başka Kayda Rastlanmadı: Reşad Ekrem Koçu'nun Çok Boyutlu İstanbul'u" ("No Further Records: Reşad Ekrem Koçu's Multi-dimensional Istanbul"), in Mimar. ist 78.
• Asya Ece Uzmay, "Expanding Water Geographies and Hydropolitics of Istanbul: blueprints, fountains, disease (1933-1971)." In Material Politics: Infrastructure, Science and Expertise in Modern Turkey, edited by Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ekin Kurtiç, and Mehmet Ekinci. Bloomsbury, 2023 (forthcoming).
• Athanasiou Geolas, "On the Archive Table: Embodiment, Objectivity, and the Construction of Historical Knowledge," in The Routledge Companion to Translating, Collecting, Archiving and Displaying Architectural Drawings and Models, edited by Federica Goffi (New York and London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 334-346.
• Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "Architecture and Modernity: A Critique" by Hilde Heynen. (Tehran: Fekr-e No, 2022)
• Ehssan Hanif (Translator). "Design Expertise" by Bryan Lawson & Kees Dorst. (Tehran: Fekr-e No, 2022)
• Ana Ozaki, Goffe, T. L., S. Gleeson, A. Khan, A. Kocher, C. Washington, J. Salcido, et al. 2022. "The World We Became: Map Quest 2350, A Speculative Atlas Beyond Climate Crisis." Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 7 (1–2): 5–49. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-07010002 .
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, "Lampedusa and the Central Mediterranean Route of Migration. Notes on EU border infrastructure and the new slavery," in MedWays Open Atlas, eds. Mosè Ricci, Margherita Pasquali, Silvia Mannocci (Siracuse, IT: Letteraventidue, 2022), 944-955.
• Aslihan Günhan, "Gönç Palas Broşürü ve Postmodern Sentezler (Gonc Palas Brochure and Postmodern Synthesis)" Postmodern Ankara Dossier , Bülent Batuman ed., Solfasol, vol. 98. (March 2021)
• Gökhan Kodalak, "Lines, Tornadoes, and David Foster Wallace," Log 51 (Winter/Spring 2021): 172-82.
• Gökhan Kodalak, Special Editorial Section "Cosmoaesthetics" Log 52. (Summer 2021)
• Anna Mascorella, "Imagining a Great City: Denver, 1980-2020." The Colorado Magazine : 26-31. (Spring 2021)
• Ana Ozaki, "Urban Erasure and the Making Informal Activism: Morro do Castelo." Journal of Latin American Geographies , vol. 20, no. 1, University of Texas Press, 2021.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Architette di Resilienza,” in Architectural Exaptation Catalog of the Italian Pavilion Resilient Communities at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, Rome: D Editore, 2021.
• Ecem Sarıçayır, "Rehearsing the Border: Politics of Spatiality in Contemporary Artworks in Kars and Ani, Turkey," in Pilav, A., Schoonderbeek, M., Sohn, H., Staničić, A., eds. Mediating the Spatiality of Conflicts , TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, BK Books. (2021)
• Geolas, Athanasiou. "Manner of Working: Robin Evans, the Drawing, and a Theory of Practice." In The Artful Plan: Architectural Drawing Reconfigured, edited by Martin Søberg and Anna Hougaard. Birkhäuser,  pp. 52-71. (2020)
• Hossain, Labib. "A Critical Reading of Dry and Permanent Grounds Through the Practice of Muslin Weaving" in  Monsoon Assemblages: Monsoon [+ Other] Grounds , edited by Lindsay Bremner, London: University of Westminster,  pp. 113-120. (2020)
• Moynihan, Michael. "Interrogating Architectural Evidence: Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal’s Exhibition for the Isreali Association of United Architects"  Bitacora Arquitectura 44 , 4-17.  (2020)                                         
• Ozaki, Ana. (forthcoming 2021) "Afro-Brazilian Lenses: "Quilombola" Urbanism." In  Decolonizing the Spatial History of the Americas , edited by Fernando Lara. Center 24. Austin: Center for American Architecture and Design at the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
• Palumbo, Marialuisa. "Cities, Democracy and the 99 percent." I n The Century of Global Cities. How Urbanisation Is Changing the World and Shaping our Future , edited by Tobia Zevi, Milan: Ledizioni, pp. 123-145. (2019)
• Palumbo, Marialuisa (ed).  Rigenerare con gli abitanti. Costruire comunità , Rome: Aracne. (2020)
• Gökhan Kodalak. "Spinoza, Hierarchical Ontology, and Affective Architecture." In Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio, edited by Beth Lord. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Anna Mascorella. "Reinterpreting Fascist Built Heritage: The Reuse of Rome's Foro Mussolini." In Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation, edited by Vinayak Bharne and Trudi Sandmeier, 409-425. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.

Conference Presentations

• Aslıhan Günhan, "Re-Assembling the Lost Children: Tuzla Armenian Orphanage (Kamp Armen) and Architecture Against Displacement," paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 2023.
• Aslıhan Günhan and Ana Ozaki "Diasporic Imaginations and Alternative Futurities" Session Co-Chairs, Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, January 2023.
• Aslıhan Günhan and Ana Ozaki "What Might Have Been: Writing Diasporas' Alternatives Futures'" Session Co-Chairs, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 2024 (upcoming panel).
• Ehssan Hanif, "Beneath the Ruins: Reading the Impacts of Urbicide on Abadan and Khorramshahr Through Literary Works," II International Congress of Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscape, Lisbon. January 2023.
• Ehssan Hanif, "Carbonization of the Aesthetic and Aestheticization of Carbon: Historicizing Oil and Its Visual Ideologies in Iran (1920–1979)," The 4th Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture, Kyoto, October 2023.
• Ehssan Hanif, "Technology, Architecture, and War: Three Historical Narratives of Architects and Designers` Contribution to War," Tarbiat Modares University (Invited Lecture), July 2023.
• Piergianna Mazzocca, "Clippings on Malaria: A Spatial History of a Sanitarian Imagination." Paper presented at the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, November 2023.
• Michael Moynihan, "Small Farmers, Big Computers, and the Architecture of Rural Governance," Paper presented at the Temple Hoyne Buell Dissertation Colloquium, New York.
• Michael Moynihan, "Building Underground: Networks of Resistance in Buenos Aires" paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
• Ana G. Ozaki, "Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Rewriting Brazil's Modern House through the Plantation," paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 12-16, 2023.
• Ana G. Ozaki, "The Self-Identifying and Brazil-Inspired Neobaroque Architecture of Lagos, Nigeria (1830s – 1900s)," paper presented at the Rice Architecture Dissertation Colloquium (postponed from 2020), Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, April 28–29, 2023.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, On the Intertwined Histories of Sicily and Cyrenaica, Benghazi Peace Center, Benghazi, June 22.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, On the Edge: Design and Material Assemblages in the Age of Climate Change, Università di Roma La Sapienza, School of Architectural Planning, Design and Technology, Rome, May 15.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Architectures of Control and Resistance. New Histories of Architecture and Politics in the 20th Century, Co-Chair with Eun-Jeong Kim, Cornell University's History of Architecture and Urbanism Society HAUS, April 24.
• Ecem Saricayir, "Architectures of Transition: The New Armenian Architecture in the Early Soviet Union." Paper presented at the conference The Soviet Experience in Armenia and its Legacy-2, Yerevan, Armenia, June 2023.
• Alican Taylan, "Domestic Privacy and Publicity in the Age of Electricity," at "Privacy Matters: How Interiors Make and Break our Cities" conference at the Royal Danish Academy of Design, Copenhagen, April 2023.
• Asya Ece Uzmay, "Making of a Forest: Urban Movements for Minimally Disruptive Urbanism" paper presented at the Symposium of Minimally Disrupted Urbanism, University of Edinburgh, UK, June 2023.
• Asya Ece Uzmay, "Where did the water go?: Rethinking the urban history of Istanbul through water-borne diseases," paper at the conference of Turkologentag 2023, University of Vienna, Austria, September, 2023.
• Aslıhan Günhan, "What May Trees Remember: Absence, Architecture, and Environment in the Upper Euphrates," Paper Presented at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference, Afterlives of Violence: Archival Traces, Survivor Objects, and Affective Experiences in Turkey and Syria thematic session, Denver, CO, November 2022.
• Aslıhan Günhan, Graduate Student Lightning Talks Session Chair, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2022.
• Piergianna Mazzocca, "State of Becoming: The Malaria Eradication Campaign of Venezuela." Paper presented at the Architectural History of the Greater Caribbean Workshop, The University of Texas at Austin, United States, 2022.
• Michael Moynihan, "The Cybernetic Countryside: Sistema de entorno rural," paper presented at the Soceity of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Pittsburgh.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Lampedusa: the Central Mediterranean Route of Migration, "MedWays," Università di Roma Tre, School of Architecture, Rome, December 7.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, War and Women's placemaking in the Italian ʽpacificationʼ of Libya, American Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, April 28.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Histories of the Channel of Sicily. Architecture, Colonization, and Migrations across the Mediterranean Shores (1932-1943), History of Architecture and Urbanism Society HAUS, Under Construction, Cornell AAP, April 1.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Histories of the Italian South and the Fourth Shore, "Borders, Captivity, and Memory Symposium," Cornell University, online symposium, March 18.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, War and Women's placemaking in the Italian ʽpacificationʼ of Libya, HAUS Under Construction, Cornell AAP, February 17.
• Sergio Preston, "(water) Closeted: Queer appropriations of the domestic bathroom," European Architectural History Network (EAHN), 'Bathroom Matters: Architectures and Infrastructures of the Twentieth Century,' Madrid, June 2022.
• Sergio Preston, "Villa Kenwin, the House that Compulsory Heterosexuality Built," Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, Pittsburgh, April 2022.
• Ecem Saricayir, "Constructing Hygiene and Settling the Border: The Russian Imperial Architecture in the Russo-Ottoman Borderlands." Paper presented at Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2022.
• Asya Ece Uzmay, "Environments of Health: Validebag Sanitorium Complex," paper presented at Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, US, April 2022.
• Athnasiou Geolas, "Formally Rigid, But Technically Charming: Architects and Professional Etiquette c.1916," European Architectural History Network, 6th International Conference. June 2021.
• Athnasiou Geolas, "Haraway's Implosion Method: Architectural Taxidermy in the Seminar Room," Fielding Architecture: Feminist Practices for a Decolonised Pedagogy, 4th International Symposium on Architecture and Gender, University of Brighton, June 2021.
• Aslihan Günhan, "Ecologies of Displacement: Forced Migration, Dispossession and Decay in Upper Euphrates," EAHN Thematic Conference "Architecture and Endurance," September 2021.
• Aslihan Günhan, "Politics of Architectural Detail: Understanding Nişan Yaubyan’s Architecture," The Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Nişan Yaubyan Mimar Sinan Award Ceremony, May 2021.
• Aslihan Günhan, Co-Chair, "Global Modernisms Panel," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Graduate Student Lightning Talks, April 2021.
• Gökhan Kodalak, "Nature-Architecture Continuum: Heterarchy of Buildings, Plants, Animals, and Human Beings" and "Spinoza and Architecture: The Untapped Potentials of a Missed Encounter,"  TU Delft Department of Architecture, April 2021.
• Gökhan Kodalak, "Design Dialogues." Bilgi University, May 2021.
• Anna Mascorella, "Confronting the Baroque in Fascist Rome: Santa Rita da Cascia," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Open Session, April 2021.
• Michael Moynihan and Ana Ozaki, co chairs, "History of Architecture and Urbanism Symposium: Politics of Building a Climate Crisis" Cornell University, April 2021.
• Ana Ozaki, "Luso-Tropical Architecture: Brazil’s Modernism in Angola." Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, April 2021.
• Ana Ozaki, "South Centralities: Brazil’s Lusotropicalist Architecture." 2021 Buell Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University, New York. May 2021.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Chair, "Europe, a Resilient Community? Critical Practices across the Mediterranean Border," Italian Pavilion at the 17. International Exhibition of Architecture at La Biennale di Venezia, 23 May 2021.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Chair, "Ecoweek: Towards Intersectional Justice. Unbuilding structures of oppression. Making space for inclusive, empowering and reparative practices," Ecoweek NGO, 16-17 January 2021.
• Ecem Sarıçayır, "Experiments and Enemies of Openness: The Case of Frank van Klingeren (Netherlands) and the Question of Authorship" European Architectural History Network Annual Conference, June 2021.
• Ecem Sarıçayır, "Architecture in Transition: Imaginations of the South Caucasus at the Turn of the Century," The Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, April 2021.
• Asya Ece Uzmay, "The 1970 Cholera Epidemic in Sağmalıclar: Unveiling the Entangled Water Relations in Istanbul," Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City, Istanbul Research Institute and Pera Museum, April 2021.
• Labib Hossain, "Modern Water: Colonial Legacy of Land-water Separation in South Asia", Resilient Urban Environment, organized by Institute of Architects Bangladesh and Bangladesh Institute of Planners, Webinar, October 9, 2020.
• Labib Hossain, "Colonial Representation of Muslin Weaving Practice and the Marginalized Dimensions", Decolonizing Heritage Exhibition, organized by Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia (SAUH-Asia), Online Symposium, August 29, 2020.
• Aslihan Gunhan (Co-Chair), "Graduate Student Lightning Talks," Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference, Virtual Symposium, April 29 - May 3, 2020.
• Michael Moynihan, "Systems Everywhere," Divergence in Architectural Research, Ph.D. Symposium, Georgia Tech, March 4-5, 2020.
• Ana Ozaki. "Afro-Brazilian "Quilombola" Urbanism: The Spatial Production of Pequena Africa in Rio de Janeiro," Decolonizing the Spatial History of the Americas, Austin, February 10-11, 2020.
• Athanasiou Geolas. "Not at the Dinner Table: Re-narrating the New York Architect, c. 1916." "Temporalities, Processes, and Relations in Architectural Research," Architectural Humanities Research Association Ph.D. Student Symposium 2019, Manchester, U.K., April 25, 2019.
• Aslihan Gunhan. "Microhistories of Negotiating the Armenian Heritage in Modern Turkey." Graduate lightning talk at Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 24–28, 2019.
• Labib Hossain. "A Critical Reading of the Dry and Permanent Ground Through the Practice of Muslin Weaving." Monsoon Assemblages: Monsoon [and Other] Grounds Conference, University of Westminster, London, March 22–23, 2019.
• Athanasiou Geolas with Amanda Joyce Denham, Cornell Costume and Textile Collection; and Associate Professor Andrea Stevenson Won, Department of Communications. "Witchcraft and Photoshop: Teaching Representation through Fashion and Manuscript Exhibitions." International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, November 6–9, 2018.
• Aslihan Gunhan. "'Malign' Houses, 'Benign' Museums: A Critical Biography of an Armenian Mansion in Istanbul." Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 15–18, 2018.
• Labib Hossain. "Ground of Wetness Through the Practice of Muslin Making." Tradition/Transformation? Craft, Practice and Discourse conference, Department of Fine Arts, Jaffna University and Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, May 10, 2018.
• Sergio Preston. "Lives Sacrificed to a Beautiful Building: The Early Years of Sage College, Housing Coeducation and a Reversal of Spatial Autonomy." Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Milwaukee, October 11–13, 2018.

Awards, Grants, Fellowships

• Aslıhan Günhan, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference Fellowship, Montreal, Canada, April 2023.
• Ehssan Hanif, Conference Grant, Graduate School. Cornell University.
• Ehssan Hanif, School of Criticism and Theory Grant for Summer School Sessions, Cornell University.
• Ehssan Hanif. Iran`s Book of the Year Award, for Persian Translation of Architecture and Modernity: A Critique by Hilde Heynen. (Nomination)
• Piergianna Mazzocca, 2023 Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund for research, Cornell University, Ithaca, US.
• Michael Moynihan, Carter Manny Award, Citation of Special Recognition, Graham Foundation.
• Michael Moynihan, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference Fellowshp.
• Ana G. Ozaki, Cornell University's nominee in the Humanities and Fine Arts for the Council of Graduate Schools / ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, 2023 Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University.
• Ecem Saricayir, Amit Bhatia ’01 Global Ph.D. Research Award, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
• Priyanka Sen, 2023-2024 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, South Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University (Language: Bengali)
• Priyanka Sen, Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougal Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University
• Priyanka Sen, Active Matter/s Mellon Practicum Fellowship, The Rural Humanities Institute, Cornell University
• Priyanka Sen, Radically Indigenous Mellon Fellowship, The Rural Humanities Institute, Cornell University
• Alican Taylan, International Research Travel Grant, Einaudi Center, Cornell University
• Alican Taylan, Graduate Research Grant, Institute of European Studies, Cornell University
• Asya Ece Uzmay, Student Research Grant, Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, Cornell University
• Asya Ece Uzmay, Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
• Asya Ece Uzmay, Institute for European Studies Graduate Research Grant, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University
• Asya Ece Uzmay, Institute of Comparative Modernities (ICM) Reading Group Grant, Cornell University
• Asya Ece Uzmay, A. Henry Detweiler Fund, Cornell University
• Aslıhan Günhan, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference Travel Funding for Graduate Student Advisory Committee Members, Pittsburgh, PA, 2022.
• Piergianna Mazzocca, 2022 Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund for conference travel, Cornell University, Ithaca, US.
• Michael Moynihan, Clarence Stein Institute Grant, Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies.
• Ana G. Ozaki, Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition, Graham Foundation.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Scott Opler Graduate Scholar Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians SAH.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University.
• Maria Luisa Palumbo, Conference Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University.
• Ecem Saricayir, International Dissertation Fellowship Award, Social Science Research Council
• Alican Taylan, Graham Foundation Grant to Individuals
• Alican Taylan, New York State Council on the Arts and Architectural League Grant for Independent Projects
• Asya Ece Uzmay, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Doctoral Research Residency Program
• Asya Ece Uzmay, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Travel Grant
• Asya Ece Uzmay, MacDougall Fund, Cornell University
• Salvatore Dellaria, Cornell Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowship
• Athnasiou Geolas, Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellowship, Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection
• Aslihan Günhan, Getty Research Institute Residential Predoctoral Fellowship
• Aslihan Günhan, SALT Research Fund
• Gökhan Kodalak, Theories of Architecture Fellowship · TU Delft Department of Architecture.
• Anna Mascorella, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference Independent Scholar Fellowship
• Michael Moynihan, Michelle Sicca Research Grant, Cornell Institute of European Studies
• Michael Moynihan, Knight Award for Writing Exercises, Cornell John S. Knight Institute,
• Ana Ozaki, Global Architectural History Teaching Fellowship
• Ecem Sarıçayır, Arizona State University, The Melikian Center Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies Award for Critical Languages Institute
• Ecem Sarıçayır, Graduate Research Fellowship, Cornell Institute for European Studies
• Ecem Sarıçayır, Scott Opler Graduate Student Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians,
• Asya Ece Uzmay, Gill Family Foundation Graduate Student Support, Society of Architectural Historians
• Priyanka Sen, Cornell Migrations Summer Institute Fellowship
• Athanasiou Geolas. Society for the Humanities Dissertation Writing Group, Cornell University
• Aslihan Gunhan. Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grant, Cornell University; Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund, Cornell University
• Labib Hossain. Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund, Cornell University
• Eun-Jeong Kim. A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University
• Anna Mascorella. A. Henry Detweiler Fund Traveling Fellowship, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
• Ana Ozaki. Einaudi Institute for European Studies Michele Sicca Research Grant, Cornell University; Einaudi Latin American Studies Program Graduate Student Summer Research Grant, Cornell University; Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University; A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University
• Sergio Preston. A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University; Society for the Humanities Dissertation Writing Group, Cornell University
• Ecem Sarıçayır. Graduate Travel Grant for University of Illinois' Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Summer Research Laboratory
• Athanasiou Geolas. Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellow, Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, Cornell University
• Aslihan Gunhan. Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council
• Labib Hossain. Sage Fellowship, Cornell University
• Eun-Jeong Kim. Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University
• Michael Moynihan. Canadian Centre for Architecture Doctoral Students Program
• Ana Ozaki. Canadian Centre for Architecture Doctoral Students Program; Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program, Cornell University
• Aslihan Gunhan. Cornell Institute for European Studies, Sidney Tarrow Best Paper Award for "'Malign' Houses, 'Benign' Museums: Biography of the Azaryan Mansion"
• Aslihan Gunhan. Helen O. and Stephen Jacobs Fund, Cornell University
• Labib Hossain. Robert D. And Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University; Mario Einaudi Research Travel Grant, Cornell University; Graduate Conference Grant, Cornell University; South Asia Program Research Travel Grant, Cornell University
• Anna Mascorella. Dissertation Research Grant, Italian Art Society; Timothy Murray Graduate Travel Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University; Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, Cornell University; Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
• Michael Moynihan. Institute of Comparative Modernities Reading Group Grant, Cornell University
• Ana Ozaki. Institute of Comparative Modernities Reading Group Grant, Cornell University
• Sergio Preston. Media Studies Graduate Working Group, Cornell University
• Ecem Sarıçayır. Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship, Cornell University; A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund, Cornell University
• Ana Ozaki. Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University; Latin American Studies Program Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
• Michael Moynihan. Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University

Exhibitions

• Cho, Stanley; Iturbe, Elisa, and Taylan Alican. “Confronting Carbon Form,” exhibition at the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, March 21-April 16 2023.
• Ecem Saricayir, Bart Feberwee, and Hacer Bozkurt. Soil and Dung: Biotic Architectures in the Rural South Caucasus, International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 22 September - 13 November 2022.
• Athnasiou Geolas, "Standards for a New Womanhood: Gender, Race, and Expertise," Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, Ithaca, NY (07 December 2020­–26 February 2021); Cornell University Library
• Anna Mascorella, "Building Denver: Visions of the Capital City," History Colorado Center, Denver. (2021)
• Liz Muller, Voices from the Great Hall  (New York: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. (Summer 2021)  
• Tell Me About Your Archive , exhibition in L. P. Kwee Studios' wood floor, organized by Samia Henni, with B.Arch, M.Arch., and Ph.D. students for ARCH 6805 Practicum: Tell Me About Your Archives. Interviews with Maristella Casciato, Beatriz Colomina, Zeynep Çelik, Janina Gossaye, Mary McLeod, Ann Laura Stoler, Anthony Vidler, and Dell Upton; Cornell University

The Bartlett School of Architecture

Architectural and Urban History and Theory MPhil/PhD

This programme addresses the histories and theories of architecture, cities and landscape, positioning history and theory as an integral part of design.

The MPhil/PhD programme in Architectural and Urban History and Theory addresses the histories and theories of architecture, cities and landscape. It encompasses how these are affected by intellectual, social, economic, political and environmental contexts over time. The programme’s purpose is to educate candidates in history and theory, not as supplementary discourses to architectural, urban and landscape design, but as integral parts of these fields of knowledge, in past, current and future issues facing society. 

Students are expected to become independent thinkers, making an original contribution to knowledge and expanding the disciplinary discourse in their field of inquiry. They are encouraged to reflect, within the shifting boundaries of their discipline, the rapidly changing nature of the architectural profession and how these are affected by societal and institutional challenges. 

Candidates use a range of methods from field work and archival research to ethnographic and qualitative tools. They draw from the unique multi-disciplinary environment of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and UCL’s departments, including, but not limited to, anthropology, political science, forensic science, literature, the fine arts, history of technology, environmental history and ecology. 

History and Theory doctorates at The Bartlett began in the years after Reyner Banham came to the school (then the School of Environmental Studies) in 1964 as Reader in Architectural History. The most celebrated of Banham's early students was Charles Jencks, whose 1969 thesis became the book ‘Modern Movements in Architecture’ (1973).  

View the UCL Prospectus page for this programme

Developed through individual research investigations and supported by regular tutorials with a principal and a secondary supervisor, an Architectural and Urban History and Theory thesis consists of a text of around 80,000-100,000 words.

In their first year, candidates are registered as MPhil students, but are then expected at the end of that year (or second year if part-time) to upgrade to PhD status. A full-time candidate is expected to complete the PhD in three to four years, whilst a part-time candidate completes theirs in five to seven years.

Within The Bartlett School of Architecture, the Architectural and Urban History and Theory MPhil/PhD programme has a longstanding, fruitful association with the Architectural Design MPhil/PhD programme. Every year the programmes collectively organise a series of regular seminars and events:

Research Introductions

Initial presentations by new MPhil students.

Research Conversations

In-depth seminars to meet the criteria for upgrade from MPhil to PhD status.

Research Projects

An annual PhD conference and exhibition with international critics as respondents, so that students can present and discuss work-in-progress.  Read the PhD Research Projects publications on Issuu

Candidates also have the option of auditing taught modules from the Architectural History MA , led by Professor Peg Rawes, or the Landscape Architecture MA/MLA , led by Professor Laura Allen and Professor Mark Smout.

Supervisors

The programme draws upon the wide range of research expertise offered at The Bartlett School of Architecture. Supervisors are selected depending on the student’s specific research area. The principal doctoral supervisor is within The Bartlett School of Architecture, while the subsidiary supervisor can be from The Bartlett or another UCL department, including anthropology, medicine, or fine art, for example. The intention is for doctoral subjects and supervisions to be as broad as the discipline of architecture and to connect research to related disciplines to foster productive and rewarding collaborations. The school also has a fruitful association with the doctoral programme at the Royal Academy of Music. 

To discuss a potential Architectural and Urban History and Theory MPhil/PhD, it is recommended that you read the profile of the principal supervisor with whom you would like to work and email them a research proposal. Alternatively, you may contact the Programme Director.

Current supervisors

Professor Peter Bishop Application of urban design and urban planning theory; incremental urbanism; temporary uses and installations; role of conservation in distorting urban change; role of other stakeholders and political forces outside the design process in the construction of the built environment.            Professor Iain Borden History of modern architecture; urbanism and urban culture; skateboarding, graffiti and urban arts; public space; experiences of architecture; film, photography and other urban representations; critical theory and cultural studies.

Roberto Bottazzi The aesthetic, spatial and philosophical impact of digital technologies on architecture and urbanism.

Professor Eva Branscome Architecture as evidence of contested histories; Historic urban environments and their tangible and intangible heritage; Modern architecture in Europe; Migration of ideas and people and how this is readable within the urban fabric; Cities as complex cultural constructions; Gender as it affects the subdivision and use of built spaces; Domesticity; Museums, exhibition design and curatorial practice; Avant-garde art and renegade urban art forms such as street art; Performance spaces; Photography as a medium between architecture and culture.

Professor Barbara Campbell-Lange Projects that imaginatively unfold notions of event, object and unbuilt environment; that think otherly about discipline and category, politics, technologies and philosophies; that evolve verbal with non-verbal methodologies; that explore ancient and contemporary (minimalist) composition in the arts and humanities.

Professor Ben Campkin Histories, theories and practices of urbanism and urbanisation. Transdisciplinary urbanism and experimental methods of urban research, publication and public engagement. Urban night spaces, cultures and governance. London’s history and built environment; contemporary urban policy and practice in London. Queer space, architecture and architectural histories; heritage associated with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer populations.

Professor Mario Carpo  History of architectural theory and history of cultural technologies, with focus on the early modern period (the Vitruvian tradition and the Italian Renaissance, from Alberti to Vignola) and on contemporary digital design theory (1990 to the present).

Dr Megha Chand Inglis  History and theory of architectural practices in and from the Indian subcontinent, and more broadly the Global South; the play of relations between 'the west' and the 'non-west;' the colonial encounter; Indian temple building communities; the 'non-modern' in global architectural modernity; epistemological vantages in design and production; the politics of technology; subaltern building communities; knowledge production; relations between texts and contemporary architecture; diasporic cultures of building and place making; migrant labour in the global diaspora; postcolonial theory and approaches.    Professor Nat Chard Architecture and indeterminacy; relationship between ideas and technique in architectural representation and manufacture; experimental practices in architecture; developing methods of drawing and making as a means of architectural research.             Professor Marjan Colletti   Digital design and digital theory; experimental building and urban design; innovative CAD/CAM fabrication technologies; neo-baroque and exuberant synthetic and syncretic design techniques.           Professor Marcos Cruz Innovative environments; utilisation of bacteria and algae; computation; bio-technology and synthetic biology.

Dr Edward Denison Histories and theories of modernism and modernity outside ’The West'; Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, especially China and Chinese encounters with modernity domestically and/or globally; colonialism, post-colonialism, and globalisation; cultural heritage and critical approaches to urban heritage; community engagement/campaigning and neighbourhood planning.    Professor Murray Fraser Architectural design; design research; architectural history and theory; cultural studies; architecture and globalisation; cross-cultural influences; cultural identity; urbanism.   Professor Stephen Gage Time-based architecture; architecture that interacts with people and the external environment; architecture and performance.

Dr Stelios Giamarelos Postmodern and early digital architectural cultures and imaginaries; cross-cultural modes of regional architectural production; global and planetary architectural historiographies; oral histories of architectural education; resilience in architectural history; architectural discourse production through photography, exhibitions and publications; philosophy, science, technology, storytelling and narrative (from comics and literature to videogames) in architectural histories, theories and practices; and histories of disability and neurodiversity in architecture.

Dr Sam Griffiths Theories and methods for researching and writing the historical relationship between urban populations and their built environments; the spatial cultures of industrial cities, suburbs and high streets; urban manufacturing; architecture as chronotope in realist fiction and historical writing; space syntax as an interdisciplinary approach to research in the humanities and social sciences.

Peter Guillery London's buildings and topography of the 16th to 21st centuries, especially housing, industrial buildings and vernacular architecture.

Dr Sean Hanna   Spatial cognition; mathematical and computational modelling of spatial and social relationships; individual and collective creativity; machine learning and intelligence; complexity and big data.   Dr Penelope Haralambidou Architectural drawing and making as research methods; art and architecture; Marcel Duchamp; architecture and allegory; theories of perception, memory, imagination and representation in design; visual technologies – historical and contemporary; experimental film and digital projection; exhibition design and curating; book architecture; stage design; and the design of public spaces.

Dr Jan Kattein Participatory design practice; engaged urbanism; community engagement; self building; design activism; architectural practice incl. Alternative forms of practice; design education; public sector and community governance; radical sustainability; high street and town centre regeneration.

Dr Chris Leung   Prototyping through digital modelling, simulation, fabrication and instrumented testing as a modus operandi for design research; timber construction and sustainable approaches to the design of timber buildings; passive low-energy actuator technologies (phase-transitioning waxes, thermo-bimetals, shape memory alloys) for environmental control in buildings; digital and hybrid digital-analogue control systems for facade systems; solar energy; passive cooling with optically selective radiators; embodied mechanical logic; advanced manufacturing processes e.g. design for multi-material polymer printing.   Professor Yeoryia Manolopoulou Architectural design and theory; design research methods; architecture and experience; collaborative, aleatoric and performative design; dialogic architecture; place, material practices and building; pedagogic settings; theories of embodied mind, action and environment; the architectural score; practices of drawing; architecture’s intersection with art, anthropology and neuroscience.

Dr Claire McAndrew Architectures of care; co-design and participatory practice; social practices; experimental methods of engagement; place-based research; ethnographic methodologies; spatially just and inclusive, design futures.

Dr Clare Melhuish Anthropology of architecture, the built environment and urban processes; ethnography of architectural practice; urban and architectural visual and material culture; postcolonial urbanism; critical urban heritage; modern(ist) architecture and planning in London; French modern(ist) architecture and planning; Arab cities; Caribbean urbanism; universities and urban regeneration; education spaces and the city;  participatory and community-led planning; anthropology of home and domestic space; ethnographic methodologies.

Dr Shaun Murray  Architectural research through design; agency of architectural drawing in process and result, ecological thinking, and field theory relations; histories, theories, and futures of communicating architecture through the inter-relations of designing ecologies; ecology, landscape, geology, and material dynamics in relation to site through mappings and choreographies; surrealism and Correalism in architecture; adapting buildings to occupants through reflexive design in architecture and technology; hybrid methods of communicating architecture, transdisciplinary approaches, non-linear and non-reductionist modes. I’m the Editor-in-Chief of Design Ecologies journal at Intellect books which covers a host of contemporary research of practicing through design.

Dr James O’Leary Ungovernable and contested spaces; spaces of conflict and post-conflict transformation; spatial justice; urban memory and commemoration; situated practices and site-specific art; interventions in public space; immersive narrative environments; border environments and frontier landscapes; spaces of migration; post-colonial conditions and cartographies.

Professor Alan Penn Urban research at the scale between the building and the city; design of complex buildings and their relations to organisations (i.e. hospitals, laboratories and offices); development of computing for architecture; urban pollution dispersal; virtual reality applications for the built environment; simulation of social phenomena and urban growth and change.        Professor Barbara Penner Tourism; American hotels, resorts, and commercial architecture; gender and space; domesticity; consumerism; bathrooms and infrastructure; inclusive urbanism; appropriate technology.             Professor Sophia Psarra Architecture narrative and fiction, geometry of architecture and urban space; conceptual order, spatial morphology and spatial experience; the formation of spatial meaning in architecture and symbolic languages across different media; architectural theory; the morphology of cities in relation to processes of industrialisation, de-industrialisation and innovation; spatial design of complex buildings and its relation to society and organisations; computer modelling and visualisation.

Dr Lakshmi Priya Rajendran Everyday urbanism; decolonising futures; city imaginaries; counter-urbanism and degrowth; climate justice and resilience; inclusive and liveable cities; peripheral geographies; phenomenology and spatial practices; decolonial methodology; identity and belonging; critical digital media and city experience; culture and memory; socio-spatial practices and public spaces.        Professor Peg Rawes Climatic, planetary and ecological practices; environmental aesthetics, poetics theory and practices; feminist, intersectional and decolonial theory and practices; histories and theories of vulnerability, wellbeing and care; political and ecological critiques of computation.

Guang Yu Ren Coloniality, modernity and the modern in the ‘non-west’; Lived experiences and cultural identities of the other; Cultural heritage and the built environment; Architecture, art practices, urbanism and identity in 20thcentury and contemporary China and the region.

Professor Jane Rendell Gender/feminist theory and architecture; art, architecture and urban interventions; critical spatial theory and practice; creative/critical subjectivity and positionality in writing or site-writing; psychoanalysis and space; public space, cultural identity and narrative.

Dr David Roberts Mobilising histories and futures of social housing in London; developing action research with community groups under threat from urban policy; empowering ethical built environment pedagogy and practice; devising socially engaged site-specific performance; nurturing forms of collaboration and collectivity; extending architectural history and design education to young people.

Dr Tania Sengupta Postcolonial and transcultural studies; colonial, post-colonial/contemporary architecture and urban history (non-western worlds, especially South Asia); postcolonial identities in western contexts. For non-western contexts: architectures of governance; provincial identity and rural-urban relationships; spatial cultures of domesticity; material and spatial cultures; global, local and scalar relationships in architecture/ urbanism; everyday spaces and practices.  

Professor Bob Sheil Architecture and design through production, experimental design, prototyping, making, fabrication, craft, innovative technology, digital practice, digital manufacturing, assembly, materials, modelling, transgression from drawing to making, 3D scanning.

Professor Mark Smout Design-based approach to architecture, landscape (urban and rural) and climate change via political, technological and artistic disciplines.

Dr Nina Vollenbröker Aural diversity and deafness. Disability and bodily difference. Institutional spaces including hospitals and specialist schools. Early modernist Austrian and German architecture. Spaces of home, especially in the context of migration and long-term mobility. Intersections of material culture, photography, and space. Quilts and textiles. Manuscript diaries and oral histories.

Professor Tim Waterman Landscape studies, landscape architecture, landscape history; imaginaries—moral, social, ecological, radical, and utopian; democracy, citizenship, justice, and the right to landscape; taste, manners, customs, and commons; food and foodways; utopian studies; urban and rural studies; sustainability and regenerative design.

Dr Robin Wilson  The architectural media (especially the architectural journals of the 20th century); architectural photography; architectural criticism; arts-based and performative methods of spatial research; curatorship and architecture; utopian theory.

Oliver Wilton Architectural design, environmental design, and sustainability. Architecture, construction, industrial and environmental histories. Physical prototyping, digital simulation, and architecture performance. Developing simple new forms of construction. Architecture lifecycle, industrial symbiosis, inhabitation and related resource systems, circular metabolism. Biogenic materials, seasonality, and microclimate augmentation. 

Dr Fiona Zisch Cognitive architecture / neuroarchitecture; spatial cognition; cognitive ecologies; neurophilosophy; radical embodiment; embodied knowledge and intuition; cyberfeminism; technology, interaction, performance; movement, choreography.

Stamatis Zografos Critical heritage studies; urban memory and archives; cultural studies; intersections of architecture/conservation and psychoanalysis; fire, urbanism and precarity; urban violence; destruction and evolution/regeneration.

Research Proposal

The research proposal is crucial to our decision on your application since it demonstrates your ability to identify and articulate an independent line of research inquiry. In not more than 2000 words, you should explain the subject of your proposed research, the questions you hope to answer, why you think this knowledge will be of value, your intended method, and the sources you will use.       As an original contribution to knowledge, a PhD thesis must identify and discuss an identifiable field of research, critique its principal works and texts, and indicate how the thesis is an original departure from and/or development of this research field. You should show that you have the ability and experience to carry out the research, and are familiar with the context, literature, and appropriate methods of research. Please offer a working title for your research and a select bibliography of key works.      It may be helpful to structure your proposal under the following headings:  

• Working Title  
• Research Project - broken down under the following headings: Subject/Aims/Key Research Questions/Academic Context/Methods (1500 words)  
• Feasibility/Ability to complete - preparation to conduct research and previous experience (500 words)  
• Select bibliography of key works (primary and secondary)  

In addition, we request a C.V., a portfolio of design or other practice–led work or a link to your website (if applicable). 

Application Guidance

The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, currently has no deadline for submission of applications for admission to the PhD programmes. Postgraduate research students can commence their study at certain dates during the academic year, so are not restricted to a September start date unlike postgraduate taught students. However, please note we will not be processing any applications in August and September for entry within the same academic year. During university breaks of Summer, Christmas, Easter, and in reading weeks in November (06–10 November 2023) and February (12–16 February 2024), slower responses can be expected. Please be reminded that the formal admissions process can be a lengthy one, between 2–3 months.   If you are considering applying for a scholarship, we ask you to familiarise yourself with all relevant guidance and allow sufficient time (6–8 months at least) ahead of deadlines. In many cases, our scholarship schemes require applicants to have submitted their UCL admission application prior to applying. Please submit admission applications at least two months in advance of scholarship deadlines.  We will, for example, not process admission applications in November or December for applications that depend on scholarship deadlines in January; these admission applications must be submitted by the end of October.   Additionally, some scholarships may require a reference from your potential UCL supervisor. It is important to note that to request a reference, you must have had prior ongoing and positive conversations with a supervisor for them to be able to recommend you in good faith. Requests for references from potential supervisors should be made at the same time as formal applications for admission to the PhD programme and last-minute requests will not be considered. Please note that while scholarship applications require a reference letter from your potential supervisor, PhD applications require two independent references.

The programme equips scholars to educate tomorrow’s architects, preparing them for careers in university teaching and research, curatorial practice, journalism and media, policy making, academic publishing and architectural criticism among others. Recent graduate destinations have included the University of Oxford, University of Westminster and The Bartlett School of Architecture.

Programme Director and Departmental Tutor: Professor Sophia Psarra Programme Coordinators:  Stelios Giamarelos  and  Stamatis Zografos Programme Administrator:  Emmy Thittanond

Lead image:  Gas, Food, Lodging (photograph by Nina Vollenbröker, 2012). Carousel images:  1. 'Home [Un]Making: Objectified Interiors, Tehran 1963–2013' by Azadeh Asgharzadeh Zaferani 2. 'Façadism in London: 1970–present' by Clemency Gibbs 3. 'Designing for Amusement' by Katerina Zacharopoulou 4. 'Building Identity: Transnational Architectural Exchange in New York City’s First Chinatown, 1870-2019' by Kerri Culhane 5. 'Frameworks of Uncertainty: Architectural Strategies of Control and Change in the Work of Cedric Price and Arata Isozaki (1955-1978)' by Marcela Aragüez Escobar 6. 'Musealisation as an Urban Process: The Transformation of Sultanahmet District in Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula' by Pinar Aykac

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Ph.D. in Architecture

Doctoral studies in architecture train students for careers conducting research in academic settings, in scientific laboratories, and now increasingly in private firms as well. The aim of research is to create new knowledge that can help us build well and create responsible and responsive physical environments. Such a knowledge necessarily engages with the full complexity and messiness of human life. It includes understanding of social, physical, historical and cultural impact of design decisions and practices, as well as the development of technical methods and computational tools to improve decision-making in design.

Specializing in architectural research, therefore, requires mastering aspects of at least one cognate discipline—history, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, cognitive sciences, engineering, computation—and quite often of more than one of these. Not surprisingly, the study needed to do this is demanding. But those students who bring with them a deeply held curiosity about the built world, an ability to work independently, and an openness to learning new skills and ideas will find the work deeply satisfying and tremendously rewarding.  

Our Program

Established in 1982, the Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture Program at Georgia Tech is one of the largest and most expansive programs of its kind in the United States, with approximately thirty students in residence pursuing their Ph.D. coursework or completing their dissertation research. A diverse faculty of scholars and researchers advise students in one of the following four areas of specialization.

Architecture, Culture, and Behavior

Building Design Technology

Design Computation

History, Theory, Criticism

Our Ph.D. Process

Students devote most of their time in close individual work with a faculty advisor in one of these areas of specialization. The course of studies allows students considerable room to define their own course work, which can be taken both within the school as well as in other departments. Once the course work is completed, studies become practice oriented—most of the student time is spent in actual research, either on their own topic, or contributing to faculty-led research projects. The students’ progress towards the degree is charted through a series of qualifying milestones.

After identifying a topic of research within their area of specialization, students develop a preliminary research paper to demonstrate the ability to frame and describe a scholarly topic, pass a comprehensive exam that tests their mastery of both depth and breadth of knowledge in their field of study, and, finally, produce and orally defend a dissertation that makes a demonstrable original contribution to their area of study. Along the way, they are expected to produce scholarly publications and make presentations of their work to fellow researchers and scholars. A distinctive feature of our program is the availability of opportunities to teach, both as preceptors and assistants, but also as independent instructors.

Your Prospects

Ph.D. studies are a natural springboard for academic positions. The majority of the graduates from our programs have gone on to academic careers both in the US and internationally, often making quick promotion to leadership positions. The training to do independent work, to think abstractly, and to handle technical literature has also provided a strong general foundation for some graduates to find work in areas beyond architecture. Career pathways of our graduates are shaped to some extent on their areas of concentration. About 90% of graduates who specialized in History, Theory, and Criticism and Architecture, Culture, and Behavior areas of concentration in the last five years have teaching and research positions in institutes of higher education both in the Unites States and abroad; others have found positions as research leaders in industry, in firms involved with architecture and construction, product manufacturing, and cultural resource management. Students who specialized in Design Computing and Building Technology streams were split more evenly between academia and industry, with about 40% of the graduates in these areas in the last five years finding jobs in industry and in leading national research laboratories.

It is in the nature of research in any field to be at the cutting-edge of disciplinary development. The graduates of a research program should, therefore, expect come away not just with competence in a subject matter and ability to solve problems, but also the knowledge and ability to think of ways to advance ideas, techniques, and methods in their discipline. This is a remarkably fortuitous time to those who seeks to do just this in architecture. Recent developments in computational technology, in our ability to collect vast amount of behavioral and user data, in techniques of machine learning and data analysis, and in our ability to design and build highly complex forms using automated algorithmic processes, are not only creating an unprecedented appetite for research within architecture, but they are also erasing traditional sub-disciplinary boundaries between different areas of work. Beyond career opportunities, therefore, ambitious graduates of the program will also find themselves well positioned to make foundational contributions to a discipline that is in an excitingly formative stage.

Student Support

Our program is able to offer a limited number of research and teaching assistantships to students as a way to support their studies. Graduate teaching assistantships (GRAs) offer a stipend and cover the tuition for the semesters for which they are awarded; the stipend is given at either 1/3 time (15 hrs per week) or at ½ time (20 hrs per week) depending upon the requirements of the course to which they are assigned. Determination of the positions and selection is made every Spring by the school administration with recommendations from the faculty teaching the courses for which assistantships are available and from the students’ advisors. The selection criteria include academic performance, possession of knowledge and skills required to fulfill the tutoring, mentoring, or grading duties required for the assistantship, and evidence that the student can handle their duties responsibly.

Opportunities for Graduate Research Assistantships arise from sponsored research projects undertaken by the faculty. They may be also offered at either 1/3 time (15 hrs per week) or at ½ time (20 hrs per week) according to the needs of the faculty member offering the award. The selection for GRA positions is made by the individual faculty members according to their requirements. There is no formal common procedure to apply for these positions.

Each year the program offers the Presidents’ Fellowship to one selected student who has been offered a GRA or a GTA. The fellowship includes a stipend given over and above the tuition and stipend that come with the assistantship. There is no application for this award; selection is made on merit by the school administration on the recommendation of the PhD advising faculty. The fellowship is restricted to US citizens or permanent residents.

Each year the School of Architecture hosts approximately 60 Design and Planning firms at a joint career fair with the School of City and Regional Planning. This fair is open to all students from freshmen level undergraduate students, Masters students and PhD students. Many students receive summer internships, full year internships as well as permanent positions as a result of their participating in the fair. This provides the students with a direct line for employment opportunities all around the US, with participating firms.

About 70 % of the current students have GTA support, and the remaining are self-funded or received support for external sources.

Additional information about Graduate Assistantships, fellowships, loans, and off-campus employment options is available on the Office of Graduate Studies site . For more information on demographics, admissions, and time-to-degree for doctoral students in our program, go to Doctoral Student Statistics . Enter ‘Architecture’ as a term in the search criteria box.”

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Doctoral students in the School of Architecture develop knowledge and technologies that enhance design imagination and the design process. Learn more about our current Ph.D. students here.

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The department’s PhD program prepares students to produce and defend an original contribution to knowledge and to teach the disciplines of history of art and architecture at both the undergraduate and graduate level. To enter, students must have a background of coursework equivalent to an undergraduate minor in history of art and architecture at Boston University—that is, a two-term survey course and three additional courses in history of art and architecture. In addition, two years of college work or the equivalent in a foreign language should be completed.

Learning Outcomes

• Produce and defend an original contribution to knowledge.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Be capable of conducting scholarly activities in an ethical manner.
• Be able to teach the discipline at both the undergraduate and graduate level or to pursue another visual arts career.
• Conduct independent research and analysis.
• Interpret the results of the research.

Course Requirements

Sixteen courses (64 units) are required to complete the doctoral program. It is recommended that two of these courses be in fields other than art history; approval of the Director of Graduate Studies or the student’s official faculty advisor is necessary before registering for non–art history courses. Two of the art history courses must be graduate seminars.

A specialized track option is available for students who wish to focus on the history of architecture.

Graduate students in the Department of History of Art & Architecture are eligible to enter the department’s Graduate Certificate Program in Museum Studies. The certificate’s required courses may be taken either as a part of, or in addition to, the courses required for the PhD.

Students with prior graduate work may be able to transfer course units. For details, see the GRS Transfer of Units policy .

Language Requirements

A second language is required for all students in the doctoral program in history of art & architecture. The language will be determined by the faculty advisor and approved by the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS). It may be necessary in some areas of specialization for the student to pass an examination in a third language, determined by the advisor and approved by the DGS. Students specializing in African art and architecture history must successfully complete four terms of an African language as their second language. For students specializing in Asian art, in addition to proficiency in modern Chinese or modern Japanese (depending on the chosen field of specialization), students must acquire reading knowledge in a second language. The second language can be either an Asian or a European language, as decided in consultation with the student’s advisor. To meet the requirement for reading knowledge of a second language, students can take the language examination offered by this department, successfully complete the reading course offered by the Graduate School, or enroll in language courses in the Departments of World Languages & Literatures or Romance Studies. In the case of an Asian language, successful completion of second-year modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean satisfies the department language requirement. The requirement for a second language for all students must be met by the end of the second term of post–MA residence. A student may not take the qualifying examination until the PhD language requirement has been satisfied.

Qualifying Examination

The PhD Qualifying Examination is the prerequisite for writing a dissertation. It is designed to reveal a mastery of a field of specialization and a comprehensive knowledge of a minor area.

It is expected that the fields will include at least three different media or areas of endeavor (listed below), and will also span at least two centuries (or more, depending on the standards of the art historical area involved).

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• Decorative arts
• Photography
• History of criticism

The examination is divided into two parts: an oral examination and a written examination. The oral examination lasts two hours. At least three examiners are present, including at least one Department of History of Art & Architecture faculty member who is a specialist in the major field. The written examination is designed to demonstrate the student’s facility in carrying out research in the chosen field of expertise. After conferring with the primary advisor about the areas of concentration, the date of the exam, and the names of the examiners, the student will submit the signed form to the Director of Graduate Studies for approval. The student must coordinate the date and place of the examination with the department administrator and each of the examiners. After the oral examination, the examiners will present the student with a topic for a scholarly paper. Within two weeks, the student must produce a research paper of approximately 15–20 pages, plus footnotes and bibliography, on one of these topics. No Qualifying Exam may be taken before all incomplete grades have been filed.

Dissertation and Final Oral Examination

Candidates shall demonstrate their abilities for independent study in a dissertation representing original research or creative scholarship. A prospectus for the dissertation must be completed and approved by the readers, the Director of Graduate Studies, and the Department Chair within three months (or at the end of the summer) of successful completion of the Qualifying Examination. Candidates must undergo a final oral examination in which they defend their dissertation as a valuable contribution to knowledge in their field and demonstrate a mastery of their field of specialization in relation to their dissertation. All portions of the dissertation and final oral examination must be completed as outlined in the GRS General Requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree .

If a post–BA PhD student chooses to leave the program after completing only the MA degree, then all regular requirements for the MA degree must first be satisfied. Boston University does not offer an MPhil degree.

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Research profile

This programme is intended for students who seek professional training in the history and theory of architecture.

It offers the historiographical perspective and methodological tools required for advancing architectural history through a substantive work of scholarship. You will benefit from the environment of rigorous intellectual exchange supported by:

• an extensive network of architectural history staff
• a rich programme of architectural history lectures and workshops
• a dynamic atmosphere of student research leadership

Through a combination of supervised original research and thesis writing with optional internships and other professional opportunities, you will:

• gain a deep knowledge of architectural history as a field
• develop a spectrum of investigative and rhetorical skills
• mature as a scholar and thinker within an exceptional community of architectural inquiry—one of Britain’s largest and most broad-ranging centres for the study of architectural history

Supervision is available in a range of topics unrivalled amongst Architectural History PhD programmes in the UK, encompassing the history and theory of architecture across Europe, the Americas, and their contact zones from the late Middle Ages to the present day.

Programme structure

The PhD programme comprises three years of full-time (six years part-time) research under the supervision of an expert in your chosen research topic within Architectural History. This period of research culminates in a supervised thesis of up to a maximum of 100,000 words.

The MPhil programme comprises two years of full-time (four years part-time) research under the supervision of an expert in your chosen research topic within Architectural History. This period of research culminates in a supervised thesis of up to a maximum of 60,000 words.

Regular individual meetings with your supervisor provide guidance and focus for the course of research you are undertaking.

You will be encouraged to attend research methods courses at the beginning of your research studies.

And for every year you are enrolled on programme you will be required to complete an annual progression review.

Training and support

All of our research students benefit from Edinburgh College of Art's interdisciplinary approach, and you will be assigned at least two research supervisors.

Your first/lead supervisor would normally be based in the same subject area as your degree programme. Your second supervisor may be from another discipline within ECA or elsewhere within the University of Edinburgh, according to the expertise required. On occasion more than two supervisors will be assigned, particularly where the degree brings together multiple disciplines.

Our research culture is supported by seminars and public lecture programmes and discussion groups.

Tutoring opportunities will be advertised to the postgraduate research community, which you can apply for should you wish to gain some teaching experience during your studies. But you are not normally advised to undertake tutoring work in the first year of your research studies, while your main focus should be on establishing the direction of your research.

You are encouraged to attend courses at the Institute for Academic Development ( IAD ), where all staff and students at the University of Edinburgh are supported through a range of training opportunities, including:

• short courses in compiling literature reviews
• writing in a second language
• preparing for your viva

The Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities ( SGSAH ) offers further opportunities for development. You will also be encouraged to refer to the Vitae research development framework as you grow into a professional researcher.

You will have access to study space (some of which are 24-hour access), studios and workshops at Edinburgh College of Art’s campus, as well as University wide resources. There are several bookable spaces for the development of exhibitions, workshops or seminars. And you will have access to well-equipped multimedia laboratories, photography and exhibition facilities, shared recording space, access to recording equipment available through Bookit, the equipment loan booking system.

You will have access to high quality library facilities. Within the University of Edinburgh, there are three libraries; the Main Library, the ECA library and the Art and Architecture Library. The Centre for Research Collections which holds the University of Edinburgh’s historic collections is also located in the Main Library.

The Talbot Rice Gallery is a public art gallery of the University of Edinburgh and part of Edinburgh College of Art, which is committed to exploring what the University of Edinburgh can contribute to contemporary art practice today and into the future. You will also have access to the extraordinary range and quality of exhibitions and events associated with a leading college of art situated within a world-class research-intensive University.

St Cecilia’s Hall which is Scotland’s oldest purpose-built concert hall also houses the Music Museum which holds one of the most important historic musical instrument collections anywhere in the world.

In addition to the University’s facilities you will also be able to access wider resources within the City of Edinburgh. Including but not limited to; National Library of Scotland, Scottish Studies Library and Digital Archives, City of Edinburgh Libraries, Historic Environment Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland.

You will also benefit from the University’s extensive range of student support facilities provided, including student societies, accommodation, wellbeing and support services.

PhD by Distance option

The PhD by Distance is available to suitably qualified applicants in all the same areas as our on-campus programmes.

The PhD by Distance allows students who do not wish to commit to basing themselves in Edinburgh to study for a PhD in an ECA subject area from their home country or city.

There is no expectation that students studying for an ECA PhD by Distance study mode should visit Edinburgh during their period of study. However, short term visits for particular activities could be considered on a case-by-case basis.

For further information on the PhD by Distance please see the ECA website:

• PhD by Distance at ECA

Entry requirements

These entry requirements are for the 2024/25 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2025/26 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2024.

Normally a UK masters degree or its international equivalent. If you do not meet the academic entry requirements, we may still consider your application on the basis of relevant professional experience.

You must also submit a research proposal; see How to Apply section for guidance.

International qualifications

Check whether your international qualifications meet our general entry requirements:

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• English language requirements

Regardless of your nationality or country of residence, you must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies.

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified:

• IELTS Academic: total 7.0 with at least 6.0 in each component. We do not accept IELTS One Skill Retake to meet our English language requirements.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 100 with at least 20 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
• C1 Advanced ( CAE ) / C2 Proficiency ( CPE ): total 185 with at least 169 in each component.
• Trinity ISE : ISE III with passes in all four components.
• PTE Academic: total 70 with at least 59 in each component.

Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS , TOEFL, Trinity ISE or PTE , in which case it must be no more than two years old.

Degrees taught and assessed in English

We also accept an undergraduate or postgraduate degree that has been taught and assessed in English in a majority English speaking country, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration:

• UKVI list of majority English speaking countries

We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries (non-MESC).

• Approved universities in non-MESC

If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than five years old* at the beginning of your programme of study. (*Revised 05 March 2024 to extend degree validity to five years.)

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Fees and costs

Tuition fees.

Scholarships and funding

Featured funding.

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UK government postgraduate loans

If you live in the UK, you may be able to apply for a postgraduate loan from one of the UK’s governments.

The type and amount of financial support you are eligible for will depend on:

• your programme
• the duration of your studies
• your tuition fee status

Programmes studied on a part-time intermittent basis are not eligible.

• UK government and other external funding

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If you are applying for funding or will require a visa then we strongly recommend you apply as early as possible. All applications must be received by the deadlines listed above.

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One of your references must be an academic reference and preferably from your most recent studies.

You should submit a research proposal that outlines your project's aims, context, process and product/outcome. Read the application guidance before you apply:

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PhD in Architecture

The Ph.D. in Architecture offers candidates opportunities to develop and deepen their education in 3 important ways:

• Enhancing research and analytical skills with rigorous methods of inquiry and synthesis;
• Acquiring advanced knowledge specific to their area(s) of inquiry through comprehensive scholarly investigations and distinguished documentation; and
• Developing the ability to communicate knowledge in a clear and eloquent manner.

To realize this goal, the faculty has made a commitment to create, along with doctoral students, a climate in which scholarship and creativity can flourish. Underlying the advanced study of architecture at KU is an ethic regarding architectural inquiry and architectural practice; one that sustains the question, “What ought we do as architects and researchers to enhance the quality of life on this planet?” Examples of inquiry at KU that exemplify this underlying question are

• Progressive models of practice embracing evidence-based design and design-build practices;
• Affordable housing with a sensitive aesthetic;
• Material investigations to create more affordable and sustainable building practices;
• Rigorous evaluations of built artifacts to inform better design practice;
• Translation of empirical findings of person-place interaction research into design guidelines; and
• Critical perspectives on human settlement patterns.

Our research is founded on an ethical position. We are not involved in research simply to generate knowledge for its own sake but rather to improve the human condition through more thoughtful built form. The overall focus is on developing understanding that may inform the critical delivery processes by which humane architecture is created.

Note : Contact your department or program for more information about the Research and Skills and Responsible Scholarship requirement for doctoral students.

This degree requires a minimum of 49 credits and is for students seeking to enhance the body of knowledge in the discipline of architecture. Because of this desire, Ph.D. students at KU are viewed as colleagues and collaborators with our faculty and as such, as valuable resources. The degree prepares students for careers in academia, consulting, practice-based research, or work in the public sector. The Ph.D. program is not a NAAB-accredited professional degree program and is not intended to prepare students for architectural licensure by itself.

Concentration Areas

The Architecture, Culture, and Behavior concentration investigates the social, cultural, political, and psychological dimensions of designed environments within a broad interdisciplinary framework, using a range of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches. Within this concentration, students could inquire into a variety of research questions related to diverse types of architectural, urban, and geographical settings. Research topics may include, among others, issues related to: architectural education; housing and community designs; social justice in design; psychological aspects in designed environments ; programming and post-occupancy evaluation of designed environments; nexus between organizational culture and space; architectural and urban morphology; social aspects in sustainable design; cultural heritage preservation and management; traditional settlement studies; urban design and development; and international development and globalization.

Students are highly encouraged to pursue advanced theory and methodology courses offered in the fields of humanities and social sciences, in addition to those offered in the School of Architecture & Design in order to develop an interdisciplinary intellectual context for their research inquiries. 

The faculty members serving on the committees of our students in this area are:

• Dr. Hui Cai
• Dr. Nisha Fernando
• Dr. Farhan Karim
• Dr. Marie-Alice L’Heureux
• Dr. Mahbub Rashid
• Dr. Kapila Silva
• Prof. Kent Spreckelmeyer, D. Arch., FAIA

A list of recommended courses for our students in Architecture, Culture, & Behavior:

• ABSC 798: Conceptual Foundations of Behavior Analysis
• ABSC 831: Science of Human Behavior
• ABSC 935: Experimental Foundations of Applied Behavior Analysis
• ANTH 695: Cultural Ecology
• ANTH 732: Discourse Analysis
• ANTH 775: Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 783: Doing Ethnography
• ANTH 788: Symbol Systems
• ANTH 794: Material Culture
• C&T 907: Critical Pedagogies
• ELPS 777: Problems in Contemporary Educational Theory
• ELPS 831: Sociology of Education
• ELPS 871: Introduction to Qualitative Research
• ELPS 948: Research in Education Policy and Leadership
• EVRN 620: Environmental Politics and Policy
• EVRN 656: Ecosystem Ecology
• EVRN 701: Climate Change, Ecological Change, and Social Change
• EVRN 720: Topics in Environmental Studies
• GEOG 670: Cultural Ecology
• GEOG 751: Analysis of Regional Development
• GEOG 772: Problems in Political Geography
• GEOG 773: Humanistic Geography
• GIST 701: Approaches to International Studies
• GIST 702: Globalization
• HIST 898: Colloquium in Material Culture and History
• HIST 901: Research Seminar in Global History
• HWC 775: Advanced Study in the Body and Senses
• ISP 814: Decolonizing Narratives
• PHIL 622: Philosophy of Social Science
• PHIL 850: Topics in Recent Philosophy
• POLS 961: The Politics of Culturally Plural Societies
• POLS 978: Advanced Topics in International Relations Theory
• POLS 981: Global Development
• PSYC 693: Multivariate Analysis
• PSYC 790: Statistical Methods in Psychology I
• PSYC 791: Statistical Methods in Psychology II
• PSYC 818: Experimental Research Methods in Social Psychology
• PSYC 882: Theory and Method for Research of Human Environments
• PUAD 836: Introduction to Quantitative Methods
• PUAD 937: Qualitative Methods in Public Administration
• SOC 803: Issues in Contemporary Theory
• SOC 804: Sociology of Knowledge
• SOC 812: Analytic Methods in Sociology
• SOC 813: Field Methods and Participant Observation
• SOC 875: The Political Economy of Globalization
• SW 730: Human Behavior in the Social Environment
• SW 847: Grant Writing and Fundraising
• SW 979: Methods of Qualitative Inquiry
• SW 981: Advance Quantitative Research Methods
• SW 988: Mixing Methods in Social science Research
• WGSS 600: Contemporary Feminist Political Theory
• WGSS 801: Feminist Theory
• WGSS 802: Feminist Methodologies

Growing evidence has demonstrated strong links between the built environment and human health and wellness. The Health & Wellness program at the school of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas, including both the professional program and the PhD concentration, is one of the strongest programs in the nation that is dedicated to research and design education about environments for health and wellness. It is built on close collaborations between an interdisciplinary team of faculty, affiliated professionals, and several academic and research programs (including the University of Kansas Center for Sustainability, Gerontology Center at the Life Span Institute, Health Policy and Management at the School of Medicine and School of Nursing, and Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at School of Engineering).

The goal of the concentration is to use evidence-based design approaches to study the impacts of design on human health and wellness. The scope varies at multiple scales, from object, to room, to building and site, to entire communities.

This concentration provides students with the theoretical, technical and applied knowledge and skills to prepare them for academic and professional careers to promote human wellness in a variety of building types (e.g. healthcare, senior care, office, education, recreation). The curriculum focuses on developing skills in quantitative and qualitative research on health-related design. In addition, PhD students may also consider participating in the seven-month health and wellness professional internship, which is currently offered in the professional program.

Some topics that students may investigate in this program are:

• Inpatient and ambulatory healthcare facilities
• Environments for special populations
• Natural or built environments that enhance human wellness
• Environments that support healthy and productive workplaces
• Neighborhoods that improve the physical, social and cultural health of the community
• Prof. Kent Spreckelmeyer, D.Arch, Emeritus FAIA
• Frank Zilm, D.Arch, FAIA
• Dr. Herminia Machry

Recommended Health and Wellness courses include:

• ARCH 600: Evidence-based Design in Healthcare Facilities
• ARCH 731: Architecture of Health

Some other courses currently offered to health and wellness professional program may be available to PhD students:

• ARCH 807: Healthy and Sustainable Environments Internship
• ARCH 692: Documentation (in conjunction with ARCH 807)
• ARCH 808: Healthy and Sustainable Environments Capstone Studio

The Building Performance & Design Computation concentration examines the crossroads of building science (lighting, acoustics, thermal, energy conservation, air quality) and design. Studies in this area seek to advance knowledge improving building occupant well-being and environmental sustainability through optimized building design. Research may require both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, often involving both physical testing and numerical simulation of the built environment.

Courses within the department are augmented by courses offered in other university units such as engineering, psychology, planning, and computer science. 

• Dr. Dilshan Remaz Ossen 
• Dr. Francesco Carota
• Dr. Gustavo Garcia do Amaral 
• Dr. Jae Chang
• Dr. Hongyi Cai
• Dr. Hugo Sheward
• Dr. Keith Van de Riet
• Dr. Tzu-Chieh Kurt Hong
• Dr. Xiaobo Quan

A list of recommended courses for our students in Building Performance & Design Computation:

• ARCE 650: Illumination Engineering
• ARCE 660: Building Thermal Science
• ARCE 750: Daylighting
• ARCE 751: Advanced Lighting Design
• ARCE 752: Lighting Measurement and Design
• ARCE 760: Automatic Controls for Building Mechanical Systems
• ARCE 764: Advanced Thermal Analysis of Buildings
• SW 847: Grant-writing and Fundraising
• UBPL 738: Environmental Planning Techniques

The aim of History Theory and Criticism concentration is to produce cutting-edge scholarship in the field of architectural history, philosophy and theory. The courses in this concentration offers a wide ranges of topics that includes architectural historiography, discourse analysis, analytical methodology, critical survey of architectural history around the globe, and the emerging issues that set the current philosophical and disciplinary debates. Allied faculty members and research students investigates the socio, political, philosophical and material context of architecture to understand the broader shifts of the discipline and its impact on society, and vice versa over time. The main goal of this research cluster is to identify and use novel research methods in architectural history and theory to understand the relationship among changing social dynamics, evolving technology, and built environment. 

Students are highly encouraged to pursue advanced theory and methodology courses offered in the fields of humanities and social sciences, in addition to those offered in the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning, in order to develop an interdisciplinary intellectual context for their research inquiries.

A list of recommended courses for our students in History, Theory, & Criticism in Architecture

• ARCH 540: Global History of Architecture I
• ARCH 541: Global History of Architecture II
• ARCH 542: History of Architecture III
• ARCH 600: Spaces of Poverty
• ARCH 600: Postcolonial Architecture
• ARCH 600: HyperHistory: Digital technology and architectural historiography
• ARCH 600: History of American Architecture
• ARCH 600: Global Cities
• ARCH 600: Theory of Vernacular Architecture
• ARCH 630: Theory and Context of Architecture
• ARCH 665: History of Urban Design.
• UBPL 522: History of the American City I
• UBPL 722: History of the American City II
• HIST 302/303: The Historian's Craft
• HIST 303: Sin Cities
• HIST 660: Biography of a City
• HA 305/505: Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture
• HA 536: Islamic Art and Architecture in Africa
• HA 310: The Art and Architecture of Florence and Paris
• HA 311: The Art and Architecture of the British Isles
• HA 508: The Italian Renaissance Home

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The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) invites applicants who wish to investigate architecture and the built environment in focused projects that unfold over a span of years. Students embarking on a doctorate conduct original research that yields new insights into past, current, and future developments of architecture and building practices.

Doctoral studies promote independent critical thinkers and research specialists across a range of fields within the increasingly broad fields of architecture and the built environment.

The University of Michigan’s Ph.D. in Architecture was one of only four such programs in the United States when it was established in 1969. Since that date, the program has continued to evolve in response to changes in the discipline and the profession. Studies currently underway at Michigan testify to rapidly shifting disciplinary boundaries and increasingly global outlooks in the field overall but particularly in areas in which our faculty are strong, such as global modernism, media practices in architecture, space syntax, structural modeling, envelope design, and urban history.

Michigan’s remarkable research facilities allow our students to develop interdisciplinary research projects with partners across campus. The Horace H. Rackham Graduate School awards the Ph.D., generally after five or six years of study.

Expectations

We require a relatively high number of course credits (40 in total), and a significant time commitment to completion of degree. Four years are normally spent in residence and are fully funded with tuition, stipend, and benefits. Two additional years of tuition benefit allow students to complete the degree with fellowship support from other university units or external sources, support that is typically raised in their fourth and fifth years.

The first two years of the degree are devoted to intensive coursework intended to train students in the principal methods and materials used in our subfields (organized here by faculty specialization as BT, DS, and HT). The third year is spent preparing for and passing doctoral examinations and identifying a dissertation project. Students advance to candidacy after taking their preliminary examinations, by January of the third year at the latest. HT students must satisfy the language requirement (minimally, competence in one research language) by this time as well.

At the end of the third year, students defend their dissertation proposal in a public defense with their dissertation committee. Years four and five and, if necessary, six, are spent in researching, writing, and defending the dissertation. During the initial phase of dissertation research, students may spend substantial time off campus, supported by internal and external fellowships. They often return to Ann Arbor to write up the results of research. The dissertation is defended in a formal dissertation defense. Time to degree varies among the specializations of our program, but students typically take at least five or six years to complete the degree.

Community and Connections

You will be well-supported by a large and inclusive community of students, faculty, and staff who are knowledgeable, curious, collegial, and just as excited about architecture as you are. They bring a variety of experiences and points of view. They will be your sounding board, your support network, and your friends.

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Majors and Minors

Each doctoral student identifies a major and a minor area of specialization and works with faculty advisors associated with those areas. These advisors should be identified and contacted by the middle of the second year of coursework at the latest, although many students have identified a primary advisor before arriving in Ann Arbor.

The major can be defined in dialogue with the student’s advisor; several possible major areas are listed below:

• Building Technology
• Critical Urban Studies
• Computational Design
• Design Studies
• Digital Fabrication
• History and Theory
• Media Studies

The minor is a distinct subject area that complements the major. The minor may lie in Architecture, in Urban and Regional Planning, or in another University of Michigan department, program, or center.

Coursework in the minor must be approved for Rackham graduate credit, deemed appropriate by the Doctoral Advisory Committee, and approved by the major advisor.

Graduates from the Ph.D. in Architecture program have completed Doctoral Dissertations on topics ranging from “Aural Architecture as Affect: Understanding the Impact of Acoustic Environments on Human Experience” to “Curating a Nation in Skopje: A Tale of One City’s Architecture and Politics.”

Taubman College Career and Professional Development offers a variety of programs, services and resources to assist students and alumni in exploring careers, securing positions and continuing skill development and management.

Making decisions about the next step in your educational journey is a time full of opportunity and potential; however, it may also be accompanied by concerns about costs. Taubman College provides full funding to all students admitted to its doctoral programs, including a full tuition waiver, health insurance, and a generous stipend package.