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
Anne Bordeleau, Associate Professor: architectural history, theory and historiography; architectural design; relations between architecture and time; epistemology of the architectural project
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
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: architectural design, contemporary urbanism and landscape infrastructures, mapping as research methodology and projective practice, social and environmental sustainability, the consideration of tectonics, materiality, and craft through a phenomenological lens, prefabricated structures, assemblies and post-Fordist systems of production.
Robert Jan van Pelt, University Professor: history and philosophy of architecture and urbanism; the history of the Holocaust; German extermination camps; historiography; Holocaust denial
Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor: Practicing Architect, partner in RVTR. Chair, Canada Green Building Council Academic Subcommittee. Contemporary architecture and theory, future ecologies, emerging inhabitations, situated infrastructures and lateral architectural practices.
Tracey Eve Winton, Assistant Professor, Director of Studies in the Rome Program: cultural sustainability, history of gardens and landscape, geological processes and formations, landscape urbanism in Rome, landscape in renaissance painting, agrarian, physic and botanical gardens, symbolism of materials, alchemical imagery, natural magic, Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy, Knights Templar architecture, the art of memory, mystical experience, architectural ruins and spolia, adaptive reuse, collage, assemblage and montage, Surrealism, Dada, Situationism, urban exploration, haunted buildings, literary architecture, anti-realist theatre, cinema, utopian projects and ideal cities, iconography and symbolism, representation, hermeneutics and phenomenology, relationship between history and the imagination.
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