doctoral program in architecture Faculty
Building Technology
HARRY GILES
Professor of Practice, MS, University of Natal, Durban; Graduate Diploma, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
qualitative methods for understanding structural behavior, fabric membrane analysis and design optimization simulation in multiphysis applications

JONG J. KIM
Associate Professor, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Sustainable design, daylighting, indoor air quality, intelligent building

MOJTABA NAVVAB
Associate Professor, PhD, University of Michigan
Daylight, Electric Light, Acoustics, Building Energy Efficiency, LEED Rating System Applications, Physical Modeling

PETER VON BUELOW
Assistant Professor, Dr.-Ing. University of Stuttgart
structural optimization using genetic algorithms, digital design aids for form finding

Design Studies

JAMES CHAFFERS, FAIA
Professor, DArch, University of Michigan

LINDA N. GROAT
Professor, PhD, University of Surrey
Meaning in architecture, place theory, research design + methods, environmental psychology


ERIC J. HILL
Professor of Practice, PhD, University of Pennsylvania


FERNANDO LARA
Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Michigan
Housing, modernist spatiality, and architectural design

MALCOLM MCCULLOGH
Associate Professor, MArch, University of California, Los Angeles
Digital form-giving, interaction design, pervasive computing

SOPHIA PSARRA
Associate Professor, PhD, University College London
Research applied on design, computer modeling and quantification of built space, spatial morphology and social and cultural performance of buildings and urban areas

JAMES A. TURNER
Professor, MArch, University of Michigan

JEAN WINEMAN
Professor, DArch, University of Michigan
Visual + spatial properties of buildings + urban spaces; social, cultural and behavioral studies; environmental cognition

History/Theory

CAROLINE CONSTANT
Professor, MArch, Princeton University
20th-century architectural history + theory, landscape history and theory

ROBERT B. FISHMAN
Emil Lorch Professor, PhD, Harvard University

History of urban form, history of city planning, urban history, design and planning of suburbs, regionalism, utopian cities

WILLIAM J. GLOVER
Associate Professor, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

colonial architecture and urbanism, post-colonial theory, South Asian architecture and urban history

ANDREW HERSCHER
Assistant Professor, PhD, Harvard University
history and theory of 20th century architecture; architecture and media; heritage and cultural memory;
architecture, social justice and human rights

AMY KULPER
Assistant Professor, PhD, Cambridge University

History and theory of 19th and 20th century architecture, contemporary theory, history of ideas, interstices between science and aesthetics (morphologies, taxonomies, atomospheres)

ANATOLE SENKEVITCH, JR.
Associate Professor, PhD, Cornell University
History and theory of Modern architecture and the avant-garde, with special interest in Russian architecture

LYDIA SOO
Associate Professor, PhD, Princeton University
History of Architectural Theory, Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urbanism, with special interest in 17th century England

CLAIRE ZIMMERMAN
Assistant Professor, PhD, City University of New York

20th century architecture and media studies, history of modernity



Emeritus Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

DANIEL HERWITZ
Professor of History of Art, Art and Design, Philosophy; Director, Institute for Humanities, PhD, University of Chicago contemporary philosophy, aesthetics, art, architecture, music, film, "global culture"

PANOS PAPALAMBROS
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
PhD, Stanford University

Design optimization; large scale system synthesis; automotive systems design, including hybrid vehicles; eco-design; product design

AKIKO TAKENAKA
Assistant Professor of History of Art, PhD, Yale University
Japanese art and architecture

ACHIM TIMMERMANN
Assistant Professor of History of Art, PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art
Medieval art and architecture