The Waterloo Master of Architecture program offers the opportunity to pursue an in-depth design or research thesis under the supervision of our internationally recognized faculty with expertise in a broad range of research areas.
Mohamad T. Araji
Parametric design, Form finding theories, Façade systems, Sustainable materials, Renewable energy, Decarbonization, Environmental air quality, GHG emissions reduction, Data visualization, Multivariate optimization, Aerial-UAV building auditing, Deep learning and neural networks, Image processing, Urban performance modeling
Philip Beesley
Digital Design and Fabrication Technologies, Urbanization
Tara Bissett
Housing (institutional and domestic), women’s spatial practice and design histories, children and urbanism, participatory practice, disability justice, counter hegemonies.
Terri Meyer Boake
Structures, Competitions, Film Environments, Tall Buildings
David Correa
Bio-inspired design, Self-assembly and self-forming Materials, 4D printing, Robotic fabrication, Material architectures
David T Fortin
Relationality, Home, Métis design
Rick Haldenby
Rome, Waterloo Region, Archaeology, Villa, Post-war Modernism, Intensification, Cultural Sites
Jane Mah Hutton
Material culture, material flows, landscape architecture, regenerative design, urban metabolism, circularity, reuse and repair, environmental history, climate and spatial justice justice, feminist perspectives
Marie-Paule Macdonald
Urbanism, Contemporary Architecture, Modern Urbanism
Maya Przybylski
Computation, Data, Ethics, Materials, Design Methods, Smart Cities
John Straube
Enclosure, Technical Design, Building Performance, Energy Efficiency, Building Materials, Building Products
Robert Jan van Pelt
Auschwitz, Biblical architecture, Concentration camps, Emergency architecture, Exhibition development and design, Forensic architecture, History of Ideas, Holocaust denial, Refugees, The Holocaust
Lola Sheppard
Rural and remote architecture, Arctic architecture and urbanism, Inuit and First Nations architecture, entangled environments, spatial practice
Linda Zhang
Architectural Memory, Chinatown, Community Power, Participatory Action Research, Affect Theory, Indexicality, Ceramics