Architecture

The Institute of Architecture is actively engaged in community and practice based research that is of interest to a wide audience of beneficiaries in the academic and non-academic communities. The research work ranges from understanding the processes through which the making of the built environment constitutes and consolidates our cultural understanding, to the use of computation in design. 

The Institutes's members actively research across the following spectrum of architectural disciplines: Low impact built environment; Housing and dwelling; Cities and urbanism; and Architectural geometry and fabrication.

The Institute of Architecture at De Montfort University invites applications to the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Members of the Institute and their research interests are listed below.

Contacts

Professor Ahmad Taki 
ahtaki@dmu.ac.uk  

Areas of expertise: Low impact built environment, Energy and indoor climate, Human thermal interaction with the built environment, Building performance and sustainability  , Research methodologies in the built environment, Low energy systems.

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Sahar Abdalrahman
sahar.abdalrahman@dmu.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: Daylighting performance in buildings, daylight glare analysis, visual comfort, energy performance, environmental façade design, user control of façade systems, daylight and energy simulations, generative and parametric design, kinetic facades.

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Alona Perez
alona.martinezperez@dmu.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: Architecture design, urban design, theory and history of Architecture, the European city.

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Victoria Farrow
Victoria.farrow@dmu.ac.uk

Areas of expertise: Design studio theory and practice, Digital software and use of social media in the design studio, Beginning design, Architectural communication and representation, Building information modelling, Architectural pedagogy.

 

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