Interdisciplinary: Ph.D. Program In The Built Environment
[Core] Program Faculty Profile
As of 2003, 30 of the 58 faculty of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning have Ph.D. degrees and many of these faculty members have substantial experience supervising and serving on doctoral committees around the world and at U.W. Core faculty include:
Daniel Abramson, Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Tsinghua University
Research Interests: Developing world cities, Chinese urban community and regional planning and Housing and community development.
Marina Alberti, Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Urban ecology and sustainable urban development.
Alex Anderson, Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: The relationship between architecture and the decorative arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, everyday life in modern architecture (early 20th century), the notion of ornamentation in 20th century architecture, the development and communication of ideas in architectural representations, and parallels between architecture and cuisine.
Christine Bae, Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from University of Southern California
Research Interests: Air quality, Transportation and the environment, Growth Management, Land use and sprawl, and International planning.
Hilda Blanco, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Land use and distributional impacts of local fiscal revenue sources, e.g., property tax, impact fees, The effect of legal theories on planning practice as applied to ecology, The implications of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology for public policy and planning, Causal relations in the explanation of complex social phenomena using the case of urbanization in the US over the past hundred years, Synthetic methods in scientific inquiry.
Branden Born,
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Chris Campbell, Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Urban and Community studies, Community change, Social identity, and group formation, Cultural sociology (theory and practice), Higher education curricular development and assessment.
Manish Chalana,
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Meredith Clausen, Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Twentieth-Century Architecture, American Architecture
Saeed Daniali, Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics from the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France
Research Interests: Application of fiber reinforced composites in construction, use of recycled materials in construction, Development of high performance materials for structure subjected to earthquake forces, hazardous mitigation of existing facility for earthquake, flood and avalanches, Development of low-income housing.
James DeLisle, Ph.D. in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Real Estate Finance, Capital Markets, Location Decisions, Global Real Estate Investment, Real Estate Management; Market Dynamics and Technology
Daniel Friedman,
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Jeffrey Hou, Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Investigation of socio-ecological hybridity in urban landscape, processes of public participation, community design, grassroots practice of sustainability, indigenous people and environmental planning, transnational and local environmental activism, dynamic conditions and constructs of cultural landscape, comparative studies in the Pacific Rim.
Nicole Huber,
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Louisa Iarocci,
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Mehlika Inanici, Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Michigan
Research Interests: Lighting Design and Analysis, Building Performance Simulation, Physically-based Rendering, and Computational Photography.
Yong-Woo Kim,
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Ken-Yu Lin,
Research Interests: Information and knowledge management for project sustainability and construction education
Lynne Manzo, Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology from City University of New York
Research Interests: Environmental psychology and people-place interrelationships, especially place attachment and identity, cultural landscapes, the politics of place, community development, social justice, and affordable housing.
Brian McLaren, Ph.D. in Architectural Design, History and Theory from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Italian colonial architecture, Tourism, and Politics of Representation.
Donald Miller, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Integrating urban planning and environmental improvement, Environmental justice, Growth management programs, tools, and effectiveness, Development and application of benchmarking, Multicriteria evaluation methods, Other regional development and planning issues, Future of cities and of planning, Quality of life.
Bob Mugerauer, Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Texas
Research Interests: Theory and Qualitative Research Methods, Impact of Technology on Built and Natural Environments, Cultural and Social Factors in Planning and Architecture (e.g. Sense of Place and Identity; Quality of Life).
Kamran M. Nemati, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests: Civil engineering materials and construction engineering, with a primary interest in concrete: Application of scanning electron microscopy to microstructure of concrete, durability and repair, and experimental and analytical work associated with plain and reinforced concrete.
Jeffrey Ochsner,
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Ken Oshima,
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Vikram Prakash, Ph.D. in Architecture from Cornell University
Research Interests: Non-western architecture (particularly South Asian) as expression of culture, postcolonial theory and architecture, Internet and architectural history education.
Eddy Rojas, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management) from University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Interests: Modeling, simulation, and visualization of construction engineering and management processes; construction economics.
Dennis Ryan, Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Educational democracy, interdisciplinary education, form and nature of educational experience, Community Planning and Design, Public Processes, Deliberative practice and development of the planning and design professions, Community, Place and Planning, Urban Change and Continuity, Socio-cultural dimensions of planning and places: reading the city.
John Schaufelberger, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois
Research Interests: Contract procurement and project delivery methods, Construction project management, both domestic and international, Business practices of construction firms.
David Streatfield,
Research Interests: History, historic landscape preservation, landscape theory, urban landscape design.
Sharon Sutton, Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology from City University of New York
Research Interests: Social justice approach to youth participation in community development, participatory planning and design, design of learning environments, design of child-friendly cities.
Anne Vernez-Moudon, Ph.D. in Urbanism from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Interests: Neighborhood planning, pedestrian travel, and measurements of urban form or the spatial and physical patterns of human habitats.
Paul Waddell, Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Texas
Research Interests: Land use and transportation, Growth management and Urban simulation models.
Fritz Wagner,
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Thaisa Way,
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Frank Westerlund, Ph.D. in Urban Planning from University of Washington
Research Interests: Remote sensing and Geographic information systems, Urban development, Environmental and natural hazards planning.
Jan Whittington,
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Ken Yocom,
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