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 Graduate Studies Academic Calendar
Fall 2006

School of Architecture


Research Areas

Faculty Research Areas
 

Rick Andrighetti, Continuing Lecturer: landscape design; Canadian architecture and landscape; North American vernacular building; land art; community development; ecological building technologies

Philip Beesley, Associate Professor, Co-Director Integrated Centre for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing (ICVDM), Principal Philip Beesley Architect Inc.: Comprehensive architectural design and professional practice; craft and material skills; museum and gallery exhibitry; visual art, landscape installations and stage design; graphic design; textile structures and complex fabrics; digital visualizations, automated fabrication and rapid-prototyping; social housing and community reform movements; romanticism and 20th century spiritualism; organicism, form-finding and design integrated with nature; hybrid forms of nature; alterity and dissociation; chthonian spaces and mythologies; the archaic.

Terri Meyer Boake, Associate Professor: technology, environment, and the development of architectural design; material and structural development; daylight in buildings, solar energy, and climate-based design; development of a database of case studies in sustainable building; relationship between architecture and its expression in modern film

Michael Elmitt, Associate Professor: industrial design concepts; prefabricated buildings; small boat design; furniture design

Eric Haldenby, Associate Professor: Mediterranean archaeology; digital documentation, presentation and reconstruction; analysis, design, and management of historic landscapes and sites

Marie-Paule Macdonald, Associate Professor: contemporary architectural design, theory and practice; architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism, contemporary art practice and theory

Donald McKay, Associate Professor: contemporary architectural design; composition, tectonics and manufacturing practice; continental infrastructures; vernacular artifacts; furniture design; domesticity; photography

John McMinn, Associate Professor: architectural design, building construction, design of structures, environmental technology, sustainability, Canadian architecture, architectural criticism

Lorenzo Pignatti, Associate Professor: architectural design and urbanism; relationship between history and design; building typology; Italian culture and design in historic centres

Dereck Revington, Associate Professor: architectural design and theory; cinematography; theatre design

Valerio Rynnimeri, Associate Professor: urban and environmental design; urban peripheries and abandoned city centres; ecosystems planning and management; history of designed communities

Reinhold Schuster, Professor: structural design; cold formed steel structures; composite steel deck reinforced concrete slabs; cable, space, and pneumatic structures; structural testing and structural standards

Thomas Seebohm, Associate Professor: digital technology, theory, and design pedagogy; digital lighting design; rule-based generative design and expert systems; double shell tensegrity structures; computer aided architectural and urban history; linking computer aided design (CAD) with geographic information systems (GIS); interactive, real-time, 3D architectural and urban modelling in stereo

Lola Sheppard, Assistant Professor: Shifting paradigms in landscape and architecture, brown and greyfield sites, exurban infrastructure and building typologies, influence of political and economic structures on architectural production, new material research.

Ryszard Sliwka, Associate Professor: architectural theory; theatre design; urban design and planning; conservation/restoration

John Straube, Associate Professor: Building and building enclosure performance (durability, energy efficiency, health, sustainability) as a function of use, climate regions, microclimates, etc.; heat, air and moisture transport within building materials and systems; new and sustainable building products, materials, and systems.

Geoff Thun, Assistant Professor, Velikov+ Thün Building Studio: contemporary urbanism and territorial landscape infranstructures, urban and social patterns, global city theory and urban revolution, mapping as research metholdogy and projective proctice, social and environmental sustainability, langscape spatialities and interiority, tectonics, materiality, and craft, hight performance envelopes, domestic rituals and environments.

Robert Jan van Pelt, University Professor: history and philosophy of architecture and urbanism; the history of the Holocaust; German extermination camps; historiography; Holocaust denial

Robert Wiljer, Associate Professor: critical and creative theory and practice; modernism in literature, the cultural milieu of contemporary life; the novel and design; poetry

For information on other research being conducted in the Faculty of Engineering, please refer to the Engineering Research web site at: http://www.engineering.uwaterloo.ca/research.html


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