People
Academic Staff
Dr Paola Boarin
Associate Professor
Co-founder and co-director
Research interests:
- Sustainable design
- Rating tools
- Post-occupancy evaluation
- Sustainable heritage conservation
- Design technology
Prof Errol Haarhoff
Emeritus Professor
Co-founder and inaugural co-director
Research interests:
- Urban Design
- Urban Settlement History
- Urban Growth Management
- Urban Intensification and housing
- Modern Architecture History
Patricia Austin
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Planning and affordable housing
- Sustainable housing, eco-districts and eco-towns
- Planning for an ageing population
- Planning for disabled access
- Designing inclusive accessible built environments
- Crime prevention, safer cities and communities
- Planning and injury prevention
- Strategies for more sustainable urban futures
Dr Emilio Garcia
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Resilience, inequality and affordability
- Resilience of compact and disperse urban landscapes
- Adaptive change, transformative change and collapse in cities
- Panarchy, adaptive cycles, thresholds, and multiple stability states in built environments
- Measurement of resilience and heterogeneity of urban landscapes
- Resilience and Inheritance.
Dr Stephen Knight-Lenihan
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation at a local government level
- Biodiversity offsets in urban environments
- Ecological resilience and social-ecological systems
- Integrated catchment management
Dr Manfredo Manfredini
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Urban design history, theory and criticism
- Architecture and spatial design history, theory and criticism
- Affordable and social housing history, theory and practice
- Modern European architecture history, theory and criticism
- Sustainable development
- Education in architecture
Dr Sarosh Mulla
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Design research in architecture
- Architects in the expanded field
- Optical effects in architecture
- Contemporary architectural practice
Dr Ferdinand Oswald
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Construction Detailing and Building Technologies
- Facade Design Strategies
- Optimizing Natural Ventilation
- Low -Tech architecture
- Reuse, recycling and separability of building components
Dr Timothy Welch
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Transportation service connectivity and equity
- Methods to incorporate big data into transportation analysis
- Infrastructure investments and housing values
- Planning for non-motorized and emerging transport modes
PhD Students
Priscila Besen
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Environmental design
-
Building energy retrofit
- Passive House standard in temperate and warm climates
- Post-occupancy evaluation
- Sustainable neighbourhood design
- Social and affordable housing
Sameh Shamout
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Sustainable design
- Green building technologies
- Existing buildings retrofits
- Passive design solutions
- Urban Resilience
- Recovery/rebuilt