“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
Dundee School of Architecture (DSA) has an established national reputation in research and teaching and a growing international reputation. While DSA encourages and supports traditional architecture-related research directions such as architectural history, environmental design and lightweight structures, it is also keen to explore and exploit the research potential of architectural design itself. In this light the School encourages, beside the above mentioned directions, practice-led, practice-based, practice-centred research, as well as research directly linked into design problems.
Applicants for MSc by research, MPhil and PhD degrees may propose research projects based on the research interest of staff members or any of the School's research units. Preliminary discussions with the Head of Postgraduate Research (Tamer Gado) are recommended before making an application. Otherwise, please follow the application procedure published on DSA website
Environmental Design of Buildings Research Unit (EDoB) is led by Tamer Gado and was established to promote the environmental design in the School through research, teaching and practice.
EDoB is concerned by a wide range of aspects related to environmental design of buildings and urban spaces such as climatic responsive and passive design, the environmental design of complex buildings and building performance.
Currently there are three overseas PhD students working within EDoB to investigate the environmental design of primary schools, climatic responsive dwellings and the effect of urban design on the environmental performance of buildings.
For further details please visit the EDoB webpage or contact Tamer Gado:
Email: t.gado@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 385 346 (within the UK)
Tel: +44 1382 385 346 (outside the UK)
The Geddes Institute for Urban Research is an interdisciplinary research institute within the University of Dundee whose aim is to provide a focal point and forum for urban research. The purpose of the Institute is to bring together researchers from disciplines across the University with research interests in urbanism, in order to foster collaborative research on urban issues of international quality; and to bring together the different research cultures and research methodologies represented by these disciplines, in particular the social science research methodologies of human geography, history, sociology, economics, and planning with the creative practice-led research methodologies of architecture, art, and design.
The Geddes Institute has one foot in each of Architecture, Geography and Town and Regional Planning, reflecting the research and teaching 'homes' of its three directors. The interests of its board members range from interactive media design to history and sociology. It is interested in recruiting postgraduate students from architecture, geography and planning, and from the arts and social sciences generally who are interested in research in all aspects of urban design and planning, and urban theory and culture.
For further details please visit the Geddes Institute or contact Dr Lorens Holm (Architecture):
Email: l.holm@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 385 265 (inside the UK)
Tel: +44 1382 385 265 (outside the UK)
or Professor Nicholas Fyfe (Geography)
Email: n.r.fyfe@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 384 425 / +44 1382 384 425 (outside the UK)
The staff at the Dundee School of Architecture represent a broad range of inter-disciplinary research interests in architecture, including contemporary philosophy, cultural criticism, history of architecture, formal analysis, and psychoanalytic theory, and would be interested recruiting postgraduate students who are interested in either text based or creative practice based PhDs.
For architecture and psychoanalytic theory and philosophy please contact Dr Lorens Holm
Email: l.holm@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 385 265 / +44 1382 385 265 (outside the UK)
For contemporary architecture and Scottish architecture please contact Dean of School, Graeme Hutton
Email: g.hutton@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 385 270 / +44 1382 385 270 (outside the UK)
Established as a partnership between Dundee School of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1994, the Lightweight Structures Unit (LSU) is an award winning, interdisciplinary research group of architects and engineers dedicated to pursuing research in deployable structures and lightweight hybrid building structures. The Unit has an established international track record including the development of the world's first and longest all composite footbridge at Aberfeldy, Scotland, and the development of a new typology of deployable structure using a patented, hybrid composite/fabric structural support system.
The Unit is represented on the Network Group for Composites in Construction and collaborates in research with the Technical University of Munich, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Biocomposites Centre (University of Wales, Bangor) and Building Research Institute. The Unit actively pursues grant funding in all areas of lightweight structures.
Current projects and areas of development include:
For further details please visit the LSU website or contact Neil Burford
Email: n.burford@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 385 368 / +44 1382 385 368 (outside the UK)
International concerns over climate change, energy consumption, and the diverse impacts of our buildings on the environment have generated a need to adopt the principles of Sustainable Development in all sectors of our buildings, urban design and wider scales of planning and regional development within the four overlapping aspects of Economic, Environmental, Socio–Cultural and Technological Sustainability.
Sustainability integration in buildings and planning scales is led by Dr Husam Al Waer. The ultimate aim of his research is to promote the implementation of sustainable design and urban planning through research, teaching and practice across the School at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Dr Husam Al Waer
Email: h.alwaer@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: 01382 388 805 / +44 1382 388 805 (outside the UK)
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