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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
Dr Alessandro Premier
Senior Lecturer
Co-director
Research interests:
- Advanced façade design
- Responsive architecture
- Smart materials
- Building retrofit
- Sustainable design strategies and innovation
- Colour and light in architecture
Dr Timothy Welch
Senior Lecturer
Co-director
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
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 Elham Bahmanteymouri
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Urban Economics
- Urban Growth Management and Housing Policies
- Planning Theories and Political Economy of Space
- Digital and Platforms Economy
Dr I-Ting Chuang
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Informed Urban Design
- Urban and Architecture Development
- Spatial quality of public spaces
- Design informatics in urban geography
- Big data analytics in urban studies
Dr Michael Davis
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- ‘Live’ projects: Implications for academy, profession and communities
- Post-digital media practices: Critical making endeavors in architectural design
- Fabrication technologies: Repurposing the commonplace to effect the novel
- Indigenous New Zealand timbers: Extraction, use, reuse and tectonics
- Design research into the future of the architectural discipline in island economies.
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 Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Built environments for Pacific peoples
- Architectural practice-led research (or ‘action’ research)
- Pacific community and stakeholder engagement
- Values-led design processes
- Applying Indigenous knowledges to solve modern architectural problems
Dr Iresh Jayawardena
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Ecologically-based planning approaches
- Water sensitive design
- Sustainability and climate resilient cities
- Socio-ecological systems, urban resilience and greenfield development
- Integrated catchment management
- Te Mana O te Wai, cultural ecosystem values and planning obligations
Dr Kai Gu
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Urban morphology and urban design
- Methods of characterising and managing the urban landscape
- Urban planning and design of Chinese cities
Dr Alys Longley
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Interdisciplinary practice
- Performance writing
- Choreographic research
- Practice-led research
- Inclusive arts pedagogy
- Art and ecology
- Collaboration across languages and borders
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 Mohsen Mohammadzadeh
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Critical Urban Theory
- Globalisation and Planning in the Emerging Global Cities
- Planning and Urban Conflicts
- Smart City, Cybernetic Technology and Ethics of Big Data
- Transportation and Infrastructure Planning
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 Barbara Ribeiro
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Urbanism, public spaces
- Sustainability Transitions theory, practice, and criticism
- Design for Sustainability Transitions (DfST) in urbanism
- Green infrastructure, urban resilience, and adaptation to climate change
- Knowledge production and education through creative practice
Ms Julie Stout
Professional Teaching Fellow
Research interests:
- Urban form and typologies
- Public space
- Cultural influence on urban space
- Effect of sea-level rise on cities
Affiliates
Dr Priscila Besen
Lecturer
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
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Sustainable design
- Green building technologies
- Existing buildings retrofits
- Passive design solutions
- Urban Resilience
- Recovery/rebuilt
PhD Students
Luis Medrano Gomez
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Building retrofit
- Post-occupancy evaluation
- Energy codes and regulations
- Energy performance gap
- Human-building interaction
- Rebound effect
Joemier Pontawe
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Public transportation planning
- Climate change mitigation in the transport sector
- Active transportation and micromobility
- Paratransit and other informal transport services
- Local government / subnational level government planning and governance
Jane Waterhouse
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Health and environmental design
- Housing and aging in place
- Therapeutic environments, Person – Environment theories
- Environmental Psychology
- Phenomenology and embodiment
- Place and social construction of space