Faculty Labs & Research Groups

A multi-disciplinary research lab for igniting creative action, public imagination, and participatory place-keeping in the built environment.

Focused on urban transportation, the lab studies the role that transportation plays in social and economic mobility, public opinions, and new technologies.

Studies why cities adopt regressive climate adaptation practices and what alternative approaches to property rights, land use and fiscal policies, and regional governance would enable more equitable and sustainable futures. 

Investigating the intersections of environmental, societal, and well-being concerns linked to housing, the lab explores synergies between building performance and quality of life across scales and their potential to reshape domestic space and architectural workflows. 

Produces new research on the water to waste cycle, across actionable scales, from source protection to household access. The lab connects knowledge to action to create more equitable and sustainable urban water management systems.

Stephan Schmidt Research Group is interested in the urban form, built environment, and spatial structure of urban areas at different scales and across different geographies; the policy environment and institutional processes that generate or influence those development patterns; and how these patterns in turn can produce more sustainable and just outcomes.

Investigates alternative building materials and innovative construction techniques for a healthier and more regenerative built environment in the context of developed and developing territories.

Specializes in sustainable architecture and urbanism through research across design, engineering, computation, and building performance simulation.

From finance and infrastructure policy to economic development, planning, and public health, the Local Government Restructuring Lab explores cutting-edge research to inform public practice.

Foregrounds building construction knowledge as the intrinsic site of architectural expertise and questions how a better understanding of materials, construction, and the environment informs an architecture that addresses the climatic, social, and cultural impacts of building buildings.

Activates research to shift material consumption toward a circular model for designing and building a sustainable, low / no-carbon construction industry.

Examines the effects of global housing investment on local neighborhoods and household access to affordable, secure, and stable housing.

A research platform, creative think tank, and incubator working at the intersection of the built environment, technology, sociology, and ecology.

Integrates computation, state-of-the-art digital fabrication,  and robotic construction to develop sustainable, full-scale architectural projects.

Engaging in relationships and networks rather than objects, the lab experiments with nose-to-tail practices, novel materials, and the reimagining of the function of objects.

Specializes in trans-disciplinary architectural design, computation, data visualization, and digital fabrication at the intersection of architecture and science for the production of responsive material structures and bio-inspired sustainable systems.

Explores the intersection of urbanization, novel material methods, and technology to create and experiment with hybridized design and construction processes in the urban fringe.

Investigates the social impacts of new technologies that virtualize cities and populations. The lab produces research using extended reality interfaces, gaming engines, agent-based simulations, digital twins, and smart urban systems.

A space born out of collaboration aimed at fostering new pedagogies and modes of public and civic-academic alliance through architectural design, architectural humanities, and the modes of research, teaching, and learning that animate them.