Associate Professor Diane Brand
Head of School, Architecture

• Urban history
• Water as public space and
• Urban design in C19 British and Portuguese colonies.

Peter Wood
Deputy Head of School, Architecture

Research areas

• Architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Architectural pedagogy and
• Visual literacy and architecture.

Daniele Abreu e Lima
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Modern architecture
• Modernism and national identity in architecture and
  
• Modernism in Peripheral countries.

Associate Professor Penny Allan
Programme Director Landscape Architecture

Research areas

• Waterfront and Urban design
• Master planning
• Sustainable development and
• Cultural heritage and interpretation.

Professor George Baird
Professor of Building Science

Research areas

Building performance with current focus on the users’ perceptions of commercial and institutional buildings worldwide.

Associate Professor Daniel K Brown
Programme Director Interior Architecture

Research areas

• Challenging the presumptive definition of Interior Architecture and
• Redefining “exterior” urban site as “interior” architectural space. 

Martin Bryant
Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture

Research areas

• Water sensitive urban design
• The heritage of landscape materials and
• Sustainable subdivision.

Philippe Campays
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Architecture of the sacred - Vastu Shastra
• Inter-disciplinary pedagogy and
• Architecture of the liminal - space of death and dying.

Associate Professor Andrew Charleson
Programme Director Building Science (Undergraduate)

Research areas

• Non load-bearing roles structure can play to enhance architecture and
• Methods to improve the seismic resistance of housing in developing countries using waste materials.

Jenny Christie
Associate Dean (Students)

Research areas

• Earth building techniques
• Seismic resistance of earth buildings and
• Islamic architecture.

Ted Cook
Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture

Research areas

• Urban ecology and sustainable cities
  
• Ecological networks in urban areas and
  
• Landscape ecology.

John Daish
Adjunct Professor

Research areas

• Cross-disciplinary concepts of landscape evidenced in art, literature, moving image and architecture and
• Cultural constructs in New Zealand and how they represent, critique, and shape cultural attitudes to land and its inhabitation.

Tobias Danielmeier
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Winery Architecture
• Place, Values and Architecture and
• Performance-Design Relationships.

Shenuka De Sylva
Programme Director First Year Architecture
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Socio-cultural and environmental sustainability of Post-disaster housing and reconstruction in the Asia-pacific region and
• Traditional and vernacular development of coastal architecture in the Asia-pacific region.

Michael Donn
Senior Lecturer, Architecture
Director of the Centre of Building Performance Research

Research areas

• Analysis of the thermal performance and
• Evaluation of the impact of building design on the wind environment and of environmental quality inside non-residential buildings.

Michael Dudding
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

Orally recording the experiences of New Zealand architects, to supplement our existing understanding of New Zealand architectural history. The focus of this work is the postwar era, the influence of US architectural ideas, technology, and practice, on the development of architecture in New Zealand.

Morten Gjerde
Senior Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Environmental aesthetics - visual perceptions and evaluation of the built environment
• Sustainability and liveability or urban environments
• Concrete in architecture, particularly evaluating aesthetic and environmental performance and
• Public housing performance and its changing requirements.

John Gray
Senior Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Building performance
• Healthy, affordable and sustainable housing
• Urban design and design drawing and
• Requirements of Pacific households in New Zealand.

Nigel Isaacs
Teaching and Research Fellow

Research areas

• Exploring and documenting the history of building technologies in New Zealand and
• Understanding the how’s, why’s, where’s and when’s of energy and water use in non-residential buildings.

Sam Kebbell
Lecturer, Interior Architecture

Research areas

• Evolving theories surrounding contemporary architectural practice and
• Exploring how social and cultural values are declared and questioned through form, space and atmosphere in contemporary architecture.

Christina Mackay
Senior Lecturer, Interior Architecture

Research areas

• Understanding and designing built environment for protection against UV over-exposure and
• Dynamics of building alteration.

Guy Marriage
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Research on urban space and significant social spaces
• Construction technology and
• New Zealand architectural history.

Christine McCarthy
Postgraduate Coordinator
Senior Lecturer, Interior Architecture

Research areas

• The interrelationships of writing and drawing
• Interior architectural drawing, film and architecture
• New Zealand architecture Edmund Anscombe
• Interior architecture theory - defining interiority and
• Architectural representation - drawing as a medium for theoretical analysis.

Chris McDonald
Programme Director Architecture (Undergraduate Yrs 2-3)
Senior Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Nineteenth-century colonial town planning
• Town foundation in Australia and New Zealand and
• Street patterns in New Zealand cities.

Jacqueline McIntosh
Senior Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Sustainable architecture and issues relating to housing, culture, construction innovation and disaster recovery, and
• Architectural pedagogy and the social constructivist theories of teaching and learning.

Warwick McLeod
Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture

Research areas

• Installation art, sculpture, painting
• History and theory of landscape architecture, and
• Drawing and modeling for landscape architecture.

Jeni Mihova
Lecturer, Interior Architecture

Research areas

• Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary thinking in design complexity, chaos.
• Currently creating a series of educational games for interpreting the ancient Acropolis and the Parthenon temple in Athens.

Maibritt Pedersen Zari
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Biomimicry and ecology in relation to architectural design
• Biophilia, wellbeing and psychological aspects of sustainability and
• Regenerative development and design and social justice issues in relation to the built environment.

Natasha Perkins
Lecturer, Interior Architecture

Research areas

• Furniture Design
• Intergenerational triggers
• Techno craft
• Materials and processes and
• Development of Acoustic treatment forms and products for interior spaces.

Robin Skinner
Associate Dean (Research)

Research areas

• Postcolonialism and architecture
• Nineteenth century discourse and
• New Zealand architecture and design methods.

Jan Smitheram
Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Contemporary architectural theory and history
• Relationships between art and architecture
• Relationships between the body and architecture and
• Relationships between race, gender and architecture.

Mark Southcombe
Senior Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Exploring the spaces between and overlaps of architectural theories and practices
• Design and research of New Zealand architecture and Whanganui architectural history
• High density urban housing and Architectural theory and praxis.

Associate Professor John Storey
Senior Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Sustainable architecture, design and development
• Expediting uptake of sustainable design principles
• Deconstruction, resource recovery and waste and
• The incorporation of sustainable design principles into existing buildings.

Research areas

• Post earthquake fires and the impact of fire safety on building space planning and
• Fire resistance of timber structures and earthquake resistance of light timber frame domestic dwellings.

Simon Twose
Senior Lecturer, Architecture

Research areas

• Architectural practice as an experimental activity
• Connections and transferences between practice and theory and
• Spatio-temporal concerns related to occupation of space and how media affects the understanding and making of space.

Brenda Vale
Professorial Research Fellow

Research areas

• Ecological footprinting
• Sustainable building design
• Zero energy housing design and
• History of prefabrication.

Robert Vale
Professorial Research Fellow

Research areas

• Ecological footprinting
• Sustainable building design and
• Zero energy housing design.

Rhys Williams
Lecturer, Landscape Architecture

Research areas

• Centre upon peripheral urban forms and
• Cross cultural and disciplinary research in New Zealand and Japan exploring the spatial identities of environments exhibiting both urban and rural characteristics, their construction, mediation, inhabitation and possible futures.