Research in Doctoral Studies
Core Faculty
Arash Adel
Assistant Professor, Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zürich)
Computational Design, Robotic Manufacturing, Timber Construction
Mania Aghaei Meibodi
Assistant Professor, Ph.D KTH University Stockholm, Sweden, Dr.-Ing. LTU University Sweden M.Arch, Post-doctoral Studies ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Exploring innovative computational design and advance manufacturing processes in architecture. Key topics are computational design and engineering, machine learning, advance manufacturing, additive manufacturing, robotic manufacturing, and new material approaches for architecture and construction.
Sean Ahlquist
Assistant Professor, M.Arch, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK
Computational design frameworks which place materiality as an a priori agent in the organization of architectural systems and their spatial tectonics
Peter von Bülow
Professor, Dr.-Ing. University of Stuttgart
Structural optimization using genetic algorithms, digital design aids for form finding
Robert B. Fishman
Emil Lorch Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University
History of urban form, history of city planning, urban history, suburbia, regionalism, utopian cities
Linda N. Groat
Professor, Ph.D., University of Surrey
Meaning in architecture, place theory, research design and methods, environmental psychology
Andrew Herscher
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University
History and theory of 20th century architecture; architecture and media; heritage and cultural memory; architecture and social justice and human rights
El Hadi Jazairy
Assistant Professor, D.Design, Harvard University
Contemporary patterns of urbanization investigating in particular after-sprawl conditions, extraterritorial zones, and shrinking cities.
Lars Junghans
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Developing and optimization of high-performance buildings with a comprehensive view to all aspects of the building thermal behavior including passive and active strategies
Jong Jin Kim
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Sustainable design, daylighting, indoor air quality, intelligent building
Joy Knoblauch
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University
Design and the human sciences, and the interaction between architecture, government, and population.
Malcolm McCullogh
Professor, M.Arch., University of California, Los Angeles
Digital form-giving, interaction design, pervasive computing
John McMorrough
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University
History and theory of 20th / 21st century architecture and urbanism, relation of disciplinarity and agency in contemporary design practices
Mojtaba Navvab
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Daylight, electric light, acoustics, building energy efficiency, LEED rating system applications, physical modeling
Ana Morcillo Pallarés
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Escuela Técnica Superior de Madrid
Craig Wilkins
Lecturer in Architecture, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Collaborative and participatory design; public interest design; engaged public discourse
Claire Zimmerman
Associate Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York
20th century architecture and media studies, history of modernity; architecture and industrialization; economics of architecture
Affiliated Faculty
Matias del Campo
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, M.Arch, Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst, Wien
Design ecology; computation; philosophy of technology
Harry Giles
Professor of Practice in Architecture, M.S., University of Natal, Durban;
Graduate Diploma, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Qualitative methods for understanding structural behavior, fabric membrane analysis and design optimization simulation in multiphysics applications
Steven Lauritano
Lecturer in Architecture, Ph.D., Yale University
Historiography of architecture; 18th and 19th c. European architecture and design; theories of design
Ana María Leòn
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intersection of modernity, politics, architecture and art, with emphasis in hemispheric connections across the Americas, as well as transnational networks across the Atlantic.
Sandra Manninger
Assistant Professor of Practice, TU Wien
Design ecology, advanced technology, and design
Jonathan Massey
Dean & Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University
Upali Nanda
Associate Professor of Practice in Architecture. Ph.D., Texas A&M University
“Sensethetics;” Healthcare design and research
Bryan Norwood
Assistant Professor and Michigan Society of Fellows. Ph.D., Harvard University
History and Theory of architecture; 19th-century US; Atlantic culture and architecture
Lydia Soo
Associate Professor Emerita of Architecture
History and Theory; PhD Studies; Architecture for Non-Majors
Will Thomson
Lecturer in Architecture. Ph.D., New York University
Anthropology of design and labor; Chinese architecture and construction practices; theory of architecture and labor
Achim Timmermann
PhD University of London (Courtauld Insitute of Art)
Specialist in the medieval and Renaissance art and architecture of central Europe, the Alpine regions, and Provence.
Jean Wineman
Professor Emerita of Architecture
Visual and Spatial Properties of Buildings and Urban Spaces; Social; Cultural and Behavioral Studies; Environmental Cognition
Recent Doctoral Committee Members from other units
Tatjana Aleksic, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Frederick Amrine, Department of German Languages and Literatures. Ph.D., Harvard University
Yuen Yuen Ang, Political Science.
Paul Edwards, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz
Krisztina Fehérváry, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D., University of Chicago
William Glover, Department of History. Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
Fatma Gocek, Department of Sociology. Ph.D., Princeton University
Matthew Hull, Department of Anthropology. Ph.D., Princeton University
MaryCarol Hunter, School for Environment and Sustainability
Valerie Kivelson, Department of History. Ph.D., Stanford University
Howard Lay, Department of the HIstory of Art. Ph.D., Harvard University
Johannes von Moltke, Department of German Languages and Literatures, Department of Screen Arts and Culture. Ph.D., Duke University
Sile O'Modhrain, School of Information, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Panos Papalambros, College of Engineering. Ph.D., Stanford University
Alexander Potts, Department of the History of Art. Ph.D., University of London
Lionel Robert, School of Information. Ph.D., Indiana University
Perrin Selcer, Department of History, Program in Science, Technology and Society. Ph.D.,University of Pennsylvania
Tyler Whitney, Germanic Languages and Literatures