Architecture
The is actively engaged in community and practice based research that is of interest to a wide audience of beneficiaries in the academic and non-academic communities. The research work ranges from understanding the processes through which the making of the built environment constitutes and consolidates our cultural understanding, to the use of computation in design.
The Institutes's members actively research across the following spectrum of architectural disciplines: Low impact built environment; Housing and dwelling; Cities and urbanism; and Architectural geometry and fabrication.
The Institute of Architecture at ˽·¿¾ãÀÖ²¿ invites applications to the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Members of the Institute and their research interests are listed below:
Professor Ahmad Taki – ahtaki@dmu.ac.uk
Professor of Building Performance and Sustainability
Director of the Institute of Architecture
Low impact built environment, research methodologies, low energy systems
Simon Bradbury – simon.bradbury@dmu.ac.uk
Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities
Sustainable buildings, design performance, urban design, policy
Dr Yuri Abdul Hadi – yuri.abdulhadi@dmu.ac.uk
Architecture design, research in urban design, tall buildings
Dr Amal Abuzeinab – amal.abuzeinab@dmu.ac.uk
Green business models for the built environment, passive/low energy design, sustainability in architectural education, social housing
Dr Jamileh Manoochehri – JManoochehri@dmu.ac.uk
Housing design for sustainable communities
Dr Alona Martinez Perez – alona.martinezperez@dmu.ac.uk
Historical urban plans and the periphery
Dr Yasser Megahed – yasser.megahed@dmu.ac.uk
Architectural practice, speculative architecture
Dr Beniamino Polimeni – beniamino.polimeni@dmu.ac.uk
Vernacular built heritage, architectural history, Mediterranean and North Africa
Dr Tania Sharmin – tania.sharmin@dmu.ac.uk
Architecture design and technology, climate-responsive building and urban design, building energy performance and thermal modelling
Dr Theo Shittu – theo.shittu@dmu.ac.uk
Construction, utilities and infrastructure, social exclusion
Dr Luis Zapata Montalvo – luis.zapatamontalvo@dmu.ac.uk
Traditional and vernacular architecture and heritage conservation, sustainable design and construction, disaster resilience, popular culture in architecture
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