Overview

In its staff and postgraduate research, as well as in its teaching, the School of Architecture is committed to the University of Tasmania’s EDGE agenda: Excellence, Distinctiveness, Growth and Engagement. In our research, we aim for Excellence in our projects and their outcomes; for Distinctiveness in what we do and how we do it; for Growth in personal and collective terms; and for Engagement with our local, regional, national and professional communities.

The School has many active researchers on the staff, as well as post-graduate students. Our research involves a wide variety of projects and outcomes, ranging from complex computer and scientific modelling related to building design and performance, through scholarly publications in history and theory, to commercially related technical investigations and applications.

The complexity and inter-relatedness of the strands comprising the profession of architecture means that research in architecture and related fields is very often interdisciplinary in nature. There are three broad areas of research in which the School has a special interest: Ecologically Sustainable Development; History and Theory of Architecture, Landscape and Urbanism; and Timber in Design and Construction.