Current PhD research

Meet a selection of PhD students in the Wellington School of Architecture and learn about their research.

Armano Papageorge

Autonomous Off-Site Construction: Structurally Optimised and Mass Customisable Building Components.

Daniel Coombes

An aesthetics of more-than-human designing in the Anthropocene

Eva Forster-Garbutt

(A)dressing the room: Decorative interior linings in New Zealand’s Victorian and Edwardian homes (1837-1914)

Griffin Cherrill

Tools to assess the risk of internal moisture from timber thermal bridges

Hossein Panahi

Urban form characteristics and land surface temperature - A spatial analysis of patterns, relationships and scenarios in New Zealand cities

Leandro López

Leandro's research investigates how hidden river features and characteristics can inform landscape architecture design methods.

Luca Caiaffa

Magical Realist Cartographies

Maria Rodgers

(Re)Planting our natural heritage in urban Aotearoa New Zealand

Oludolapo Ibrahim Olanrewaju

Improving data quality assurance in the construction environment product declaration (EPD) for a reliable whole-building life cycle assessment (WBLCA).

Rana Abdollahi Rizi

Rana Abdollahi Rizi’s research investigates buildings envelope design considering occupants' behaviour and their comfort for building energy efficiency

Swarnali Dihingia

The walking tourist: An investigation of people’s perception when walking

Yutong Jin

The architecture and humanities of ancient religious paintings are transferred from a two-dimensional space to an immersive virtual environment