Research
The Wellington School of Architecture is involved in local and international cutting-edge design and research.
Academic staff and postgraduate students in the school engage in individual and group research projects that cover a wide range of topics in Architecture, Building Science, Interior Architecture, and Landscape Architecture.
Research clusters
Find out about the supervising staff, research streams, and study options available in our main research clusters.
Creative and critical
Practice and research that examines and understands how spaces are created, celebrated, examined, remembered and lived in.
People, wellbeing, and sustainability
Design that aims to increase the wellbeing of people, society, and the ecosystems we dwell in as the world around us changes.
Performance and technologies
Research that shifts spatial design technologies to new innovative paradigms and performance levels.
Staff and students
Postgraduate students in the Wellington School of Architecture play a vital role in developing high quality research outputs. Our staff supervise students across a wide variety of thesis topics. In many cases research findings are presented at national and international conferences. Many postgraduates have become industry leaders in their chosen field.
Our staff publish a wide variety of scholarly articles, books, case studies, chapters, edited collections, monographs, reports, and conference papers.
Further information on staff research interests and publications can be found on our staff profiles.
Meet some of our PhD students and learn about their research.
Research centres
The Wellington School of Architecture takes pride in being a leader in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Building Science research within Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. To support this research, the School has established two specialised research units:
The Centre of Building Performance Research (CBPR)
The Earthquake Hazard Centre (EHC)
Research news
Keep up to date with the latest news and research developments from the School of Architecture.
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Current PhD research
Meet a selection of PhD students in the Wellington School of Architecture and learn about their research.
View current researchPast PhD students
Read about the theses of students who have completed their PhDs.
View past research
View our public lectures
The Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation regularly hosts public lectures on a variety of topics within architecture, design, and the built environment. Check them out on our YouTube playlist.
View our lectures