Rick Andrighetti, Continuing Lecturer: landscape design; Canadian architecture and landscape; North American vernacular building; land art; community development; ecological building technologies.
Philip Beesley, Associate Professor, Co-Director Integrated Centre for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing (ICVDM), Principal Philip Beesley Architect Inc.: Comprehensive architectural design and professional practice; craft and material skills; museum and gallery exhibitry; visual art, landscape installations and stage design; graphic design; textile structures and complex fabrics; digital visualizations, automated fabrication and rapid-prototyping; social housing and community reform movements; romanticism and 20th century spiritualism; organicism, form-finding and design integrated with nature; hybrid forms of nature; alterity and dissociation; chthonian spaces and mythologies; the archaic.
Terri Meyer Boake, Associate Professor: technology, environment, and the development of architectural design; material and structural development; daylight in buildings, solar energy, and climate-based design; development of a database of case studies in sustainable building; relationship between architecture and its expression in modern film.
Anne Bordeleau, Associate Professor: architectural history, theory and historiography; architectural design; relations between architecture and time; epistemology of the architectural project.
Eric Haldenby, Associate Professor: Mediterranean archaeology; digital documentation, presentation and reconstruction; analysis, design, and management of historic landscapes and sites.
Marie-Paule Macdonald, Associate Professor: contemporary architectural design, theory and practice; architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism, contemporary art practice and theory.
Donald McKay, Associate Professor: contemporary architectural design; composition, tectonics and manufacturing practice; continental infrastructures; vernacular artifacts; furniture design; domesticity; photography.
John McMinn, Associate Professor: architectural design, building construction, design of structures, environmental technology, sustainability, Canadian architecture, architectural criticism.
Lorenzo Pignatti, Associate Professor: architectural design and urbanism; relationship between history and design; building typology; Italian culture and design in historic centres.
Dereck Revington, Associate Professor: architectural design and theory; cinematography; theatre design.
Valerio Rynnimeri, Associate Professor: urban and environmental design; urban peripheries and abandoned city centres; ecosystems planning and management; history of designed communities.
Lola Sheppard, Assistant Professor: Shifting paradigms in landscape and architecture, brown and greyfield sites, exurban infrastructure and building typologies, influence of political and economic structures on architectural production, new material research.
Ryszard Sliwka, Associate Professor: architectural theory; theatre design; urban design and planning; conservation/restoration.
John Straube, Associate Professor: Building and building enclosure performance (durability, energy efficiency, health, sustainability) as a function of use, climate regions, microclimates, etc.; heat, air and moisture transport within building materials and systems; new and sustainable building products, materials, and systems.
Robert Jan van Pelt, University Professor: history and philosophy of architecture and urbanism; the history of the Holocaust; German extermination camps; historiography; Holocaust denial.
Tracey Eve Winton, Assistant Professor, Director of Studies in the Rome Program: cultural sustainability, history of gardens and landscape, geological processes and formations, landscape urbanism in Rome, landscape in renaissance painting, agrarian, physic and botanical gardens, symbolism of materials, alchemical imagery, natural magic, Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy, Knights Templar architecture, the art of memory, mystical experience, architectural ruins and spolia, adaptive reuse, collage, assemblage and montage, Surrealism, Dada, Situationism, urban exploration, haunted buildings, literary architecture, anti-realist theatre, cinema, utopian projects and ideal cities, iconography and symbolism, representation, hermeneutics and phenomenology, relationship between history and the imagination.
For information on other research being conducted in the Faculty of Engineering, please refer to the Engineering Research web site at: http://www.engineering.uwaterloo.ca/research