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.
Arfa N. Aijazi
Rick Andrighetti
Canadian Architecture and landscape history and theory | Contemporary landscape history and theory | Contemporary landscape design | Relationship between buildings and the land | Land art
Adrian Blackwell
Urbanization | Neoliberalism | Housing | Public Space | Private Property
Elizabeth English
Amphibious foundation systems | Flood mitigation and climate change adaptation strategy | Water
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 | Feminist Perspectives
Jaliya Fonseka
Anwar Jaber
Cities and Conflicts | Nation-state and Architecture | Socio-Politics of architecture and urbanism |Memory, Urbicide and Justice | Democracy, indigenous sovereignty and settler colonialism | Palestine and the Middle East
Fiona Lim Tung
John McMinn
Indigenous architecture | Canadian architecture | Environmentalism in architectural and urban design | Innovative structures | Cultural issues in sustainability | Materials and building construction | Architectural criticism
Marie-Paule Macdonald
Urbanism | Contemporary Architecture | Modern Urbanism
Maya Przybylski
Computation | Data | Ethics | Materials | Design Methods | Smart Cities
Lola Sheppard
Rural and remote architecture | Arctic architecture and urbanism | Inuit and First Nations architecture | entangled environments | spatial practice
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
Linda Zhang
Architectural memory | Chinatown | Community power | Participatory Action | Affect theory | Indexicality | Ceramics
Tracey Eve Winton
Modernism | Adaptive Reuse / Repurposed buildings | Symbolism of materials | History and iconography of the museum | Ruins and architectural spoils
Valerio Rynnimeri
Urban and environmental design | Urban peripheries and abandoned city centres | Urban forms of globalization | Ecosystem planning and management | History of designed communities