Architectural Design / Architectural & Urban History & Theory students
Discover the MPhil/PhD students in our department.

Architectural Design and Architectural & Urban History & Theory are aimed at designers, historians and theorists of architecture. In practice, there is considerable overlap and engagement between the two programmes, both of which consist of a dynamic group of around 90 innovative doctoral students.
These programmes have a diverse body of students, half of which are international. Many are funded by their home governments or by UCL, one of the UK research councils, or another funding body such as the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Current students
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Past students
- Adam-Theodoros Adamis
Liquidity in Architecture - Wesley Aelbrecht
Architecture and ethnography in the slums of Lisbon : a study of participation in the films of Pedro Costa, 1997-2006. - Ava Aghakouchak
Performing Spaces; An Attention Oriented Study of Human Perception - Ricardo Agarez
Modern architecture, building tradition and context in southern Portugal - Abdullah Ahmed Aldabbous
The Case of Affordable Housing Provision in the Square Mile - Bihter Almac
Designing in a state of distraction: obscuring the practices of architectural design - Narea Amaros Elorduy
Architecture as a Tool for Young Children Learning in Eastern Africa’s Protracted Refugee Encampments - Nadia Amoroso
The Exposed City and Its Images: A Theoretical Study of Mapping as it Relates to Visual Representation of the City from the Early 20th Century to Today - Kalliopi Amygdalou
(Re)Constructing identity in the urban space: The cases of Izmir and Thessaloniki in the first half of the 20th century - Anna Andersen
Everywhere Close and Strongly Felt? Christian Norberg-Schulz's Windows: A Critical Exploration - Sabina Andron
Skin Deep: The Material Site Specificity of Urban Surface Inscriptions - Nicola Antaki
A Learning Architecture: Active citizenship with Muktangan School and Mariamma Nagar Community - Ana Araujo
Patterning: Envisioning New Strategies for Architectural Design Based on the Textile-Inspired Procedures of Repeating, Scaling and Masking. Shortlisted, RIBA Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2009 - Gregorio Astengo
Architectural Transactions: Locating Architecture in the Early Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665–1700) - Pinar Aykac
Musealisation in the Urban Context: Multiple Narratives of Sultanahmet Archaeological Park in Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula - Alessandro Ayuso
DEPLOYING A NEW BODY AGENT: An Investigation of the Figure as an Agent for Design
- Tal Bar
Digital Architecture and Difference - Jaime Bartolomé
Architectures of Joy: A Theoretical and Practical Guide to the Production of Positive Feelings in Buildings - Katherine E. Bash
Spatial Poetries: Heuristics for Experimental Poiesis - Paul Bavister
Evolutionary optimisation and the generation of emotional response to sound and space - Katy Beinart
Salted Earth: Revealing Traces and Reconfiguring Identities in Contested Sites of Migrant History in 20th Century London - Jhono Bennett
Spatial Praxis in the Post-Post Apartheid City: A Southern Urbanist reflection on spatial design practice in Johannesburg, South Africa. - Eva Branscome
A Fiction of Style in the age of Postmodernity - Joanne Bristol
Interspecies spaces: écriture féline - Giulio Brugnaro
Innochain ESR10 ‘Simulating Robotic Feedback’: Adaptive Robotic Training for Subtractive Manufacturing - David Buck
In an Open Field: an investigation of temporal landscape notation
- Eray Cayli
The Architecture of Collective Memory: Turkey’s 'Witness-Sites' from the Inter-coup Period (1960-1997) and Their Museumification - Chadi Chamoun
Neorealist Director Architect: Critically Observing the Obvious - Chin-Wei Chang
The Architect-Teacher’s Role in Formulating Architectural Pedagogy in China before 1952: The Examples of Huang Zuoshen and Liang Sicheng - Nat Chard
Drawing Indeterminate Architecture, Indeterminate Drawings of Architecture - Emma Cheatle
Part-architecture:The Maison de Verre through the Large Glass, 2013 - Marjan Colletti
Digital Poetics: An Enquiry into the Properties of 'Mimetic Intrafaces' and the 'Twoandahalf Dimensionality' of Computer-Aided Architectural Design - Miranda Critchley
Narratives of Communication and Improvement in mid-nineteenth-century London - Marcos Cruz
The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture. Winner, RIBA Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2008 - Kerri Culhane
Building Identity: Transnational Architectural Exchange in New York City’s First Chinatown, 1870-2019
- Ines Dantas Ribeiro Bernardes
Urbanism through Landscape - Trees defying the City’s Surface - Bernadette Devilat Loustalot
Re-Construction and Record: Exploring Alternatives for Heritage Areas After Earthquakes in Chile - Killian O’Dochartaigh
Decolonising architectural practice: exploring dwelling and distinction within the (development) landscapes of Rwanda
- Sevcan Ercan
Politics of Space, Identity and Displacement: Rum Villages and Town of Imbros Island - Pol Esteve
- Daniyal Farhani
Acupuncture for a Disciplined Urban Realm: The Case of Sanyuanli Urban Village, Guangzhou - Judit Ferencz
The Graphic Novel as an Interdisciplinary Conservation Method in Architectural Heritage: A Book of Hours for Robin Hood Gardens - Susan Fitzgerald
- Stella Flatten
Urban Blind Spots: an image-discursive analysis of post-socialist artefacts in contemporary Berlin
- Stylianos Giamarelos
The Spheres of Publicity and the Labyrinth of Practice: The Postmodern Fermentations of Architecture in 1980s Greece - Clemency Gibbs
Façadism in London: 1970-present - Pablo Gil Martínez
Numen architecture: An architecture influenced by the numinous attributes of animals - Ruairi Glynn
Motive Architecture - Nadezda Gobova
Urban mentality and infrastructure in Russia’s planned industrial cities: the example of Yekaterinburg from 1920s–2015 - Polly Gould
No More Elsewhere: Melancholia, Subjectivity, Landscape - Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez
Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship
- Mohamad Hafeda
- Sophie Handler
A Little Bit of TLC: Towards an Alternative Urban Practice of Elderly Care - Catja De Haas
The doll's house and the Enclave: a toolkit - Penelope Haralambidou
The Blossoming of Perspective: An Investigation of Spatial Representation - Abril Herrera Chavez
Internet and Urban Media for Social Neighbourhoods: Broadband in Rural Villages of Cornwall - Jonathan Hill
Creative Users, Illegal Architects - Bill Hodgson
Exploring community led self-building as a contribution to London’s housing shortage - Teresa Hoskyns
The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space - Sander Hölsgens
Skill Acquisition and Filmic Gestures: Toward a Phenomenology of Skateboarding in Seoul, South Korea
- Popi Iacovou
On Movement as a Principle for Spatial Construction - Ersi Ioannidou
The (Existenz-) Minimum Dwelling
- Nahed Jawad
A Revival of Historical Architectural Forms: The Muqarnas. Research into Three-Dimensional Islamic Geometric Patterns - Nicholas Jewell
Socialism and Shopping: The Role of the Shopping Mall in the Formation of Public Space in Modern China - Nina Jotanovic
Pearlescent Architecture: Augmenting Perceptual through Growth of Biomineralised Veneers
- Jan Kattein
The Architecture Chronicle: Diary of an Architectural Practice. Shortlisted, RIBA Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2010 - Irene Kelley
Peace-process infrastructure: Constructing landscapes in-between Irelands - Alexander Kidd
High-Tech goes Shopping: Superstores in Britain, 1970 to 2000 - Jeong Hye Kim
Seoul’s Nanjido Landfill-Park and Urban Ecologies What brings the sense of uneasiness to the Nanjido landfill-park? - Rosalie Kim
The Hyphenation of the Void: From Eastern Ecology to Western Architecture - Taeyoung Kim
- Petros Koutsolampros
- Kristen Kreider
Toward a Material Poetics: Sign, Subject, Site. Shortlisted, RIBA Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2009
- Hina Lad
- Torsten Lange
Critical Thinking, Complex Design: The concept of Komplexe Umweltgestaltung and the problem of complexity and quality in the production of the built environment in 1970s and 1980s East Germany - Felipe Lanuza Rilling
Absence Through Layering: From Experiencing Urban Leftovers to Reimagining Sites - Constance Lau
Touching on Transparency: Glass, Vision and the Tactile Window - Kwang Guan Lee
Cast & Camera: An intimate engagement with making at Grymsdyke Farm, 2013 - Claudio Leoni
- Ifigeneia Liangi
The Architectural Novel: A study on the Greek spaces of magical realism - Tea Lim
- Abigail Lockey
- Thandiwe Loewenson
- Lesley Lokko
Out of Africa. 'Race', Space, Place: An Investigation of Architectural Response-ability
- Jane Madsen
- Yeoryia Manolopoulou
Drawing On Chance: Indeterminacy, Perception, and Design. Shortlisted, RIBA Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2005 - Suzanne MacLeod
- Kieran Mahon
Experimental Environments: The Architecture of England’s Progressive Schools, 1914–1939 - Shneel Malik
Viscous Biomaterials for Application in Architecture Large-scale Manufacturing of Algae-laden Bio Scaffolds - Igor Marjanovic
Pedagogy into practice: Alvin Boyarsky’s Collections and the Estrangement of Architecture - Samar Maqusi
Spatial Violations: Constructing The Political Inside the Palestine Refugee Camp - Carlo Menon
Critical Editorial Devices in a Minor Mode: ‘Little’ Architecture Magazines of the Early Twenty-first Century - Mahsa Agha Ali Mesgar
- Malca Mizrahi
- Hamish Muir
Ecological Playwriting in the Theatre Industry
- Oliver Palma
- Christos Papastergiou
- Thomas Pearce
On the edge of precision’s own shadow. Parallax between reconstruction and reinvention - Luke Caspar Pearson
- Sol Perez-Martinez
Urban Studies Centres and Built Environment Education in Britain 1968-1988: A Framework for Critical Urban Pedagogy today? - Mariana Pestana
- Tony Pressland
Picturing Construction, Constructing Identities: The Photographic Archive of John Laing & Son Ltd - Matthew Poulter
Of a Vellum Book: William Leybourn’s Survey of Encroachments upon the London Wall (1676), a chorographic study
- Regner Ramos
Revival of the Cyborg: Embodiment, Technology, and the Built Environment - Sophie Read
- Sarah Rivière
The Stasis Arena: Re-Negotiating the Architecture of the Social Through Kindred Confrontation at 835 Kings Road - Felix Robbins
- David Roberts
Make Public: Performing public housing in regenerating east London - Natalia Romik
- Rense Royaards
- Ozayr Saloojee
A Borrowed Architecture: Conflict Urbanism and Identity in Strand, Cape Town, 1820-1930 - Saptarshi Sanyal
Shaping the Modern: Architectural Cultures as Critique in Late Colonial India (c.1913-48) - Alexandru Senciuc
A Simulation Framework to Form Collective Intelligence in Strategic Health Infrastructure Planning - Ram Shergill
The Critical Posthuman Carapace: Constructing Exoskeletal Hybrid Living Systems (EHLS) - Maria Luísa Silva Alpalhão
[Urban Nomads]: a catalyst for cross-cultural cohabitation in public spaces - Wiltrud Simbürger
An Enquiry into Climate and Atmosphere in the Architecture of the Late Renaissance - Pinai Sirikiatikul
Constructional ‘Theory’ In Britain, 1870s – 1930s - Camila Sotomayor
Aberrant Ageing - Juliet Sprake
Learning-through-Touring: A New Design Methodology for Situated Learning Derived Through Touring the Built Environment - Rosemary Spankie
Thinking Through Drawing - Amy Spencer
The Architectural History of University College London, 1825–1939 - Theo Spyropoulos
- Bradley Starkey
Post-Secular Architecture: The Spiritual in Models of Thought and Models of Architecture - Lina Sun
The Modernity of Chinese Architectural Drawing’s Subjectivity: From the Representation of Cosmology to the Design of Traditions - Ben Sweeting
Architecture and Undecidability
- Huda Tayob
Hidden histories and Invisible Spaces: Migrant trading places in Cape Town - Amy Thomas
The Square Mile: Spatially redefining the City of London in the context of global financial networks - Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
Discovering Mixed Realities: An Exploration of Digital Interfaces as a Site for a Space of the Event - Alessandro Toti
From O. M. Ungers’ to the radical students’ architectural and urban production at the Technische Universität Berlin (1963-1977) - William Tozer
A Theory of Making: Architecture and Art in the Practice of Adolf Loos
- Quynh Vantu
Engaging through the Threshold
- Adam Walls
Twilight Spaces: topographic literary analyses of the London lightscape, 1880s–1930's - Cindy Walters
Rethinking the Pavilion - Victoria Watson
The Atmospheric Signifier: Miesian Form-Giving, Lefebvrian Space and Cotton Grid - Neil Wenman
A Space to House Nothing: Examining the Adoption of Architectural Terminology and Forms of Representation in Conceptual Art - Freya Wigzell
The Conduits of Transgression: A study of shells in Architecture - Michael Wihart
- Danielle Willkens
Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, and Maria Cosway: the transatlantic design network, 1768-1838 - Daniel Wilkinson
After Michelangelo, A Contemporary Baroque - Stefan White
- Alex Zambelli
Scandelous Artefacts - Dr Seda Zirek
Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning with Spatially Varying Micro Properties of Materials and Fabrication Constraints for Digital Design and Making - Fiona Zisch