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  • Sustainable Architecture in Tropical Hotel Developments: Approaches to the design of Malaysian Coastal Resorts PhD
  • The fractal nature of architecture: is space hyperbolic? PhD
  • New Policy, New Morphology? The Spatial Impact of Housing Policy in Liverpool PhD
  • Towards a bioclimatic healthcare typology: environmental force manipulation of a genotype PhD
  • Phenotypic Plasti-city: Heuristics for a climatically derived urban form adapting to daily and seasonal environmental forces PhD
  • Political Manifestations: inter-war public housing in Liverpool PhD
  • Transformations in urban form: Liverpool in the Twentieth Century PhD
  • Lee House: The search for a Modern Commercial Architecture in Manchester MPhil
  • Urban Complexity: Mapping the dynamics of human movement in everyday urban space PhD
  • Effective passivity and use of vegetation in achieving thermal comfort in tropical skyscrapers: an energy efficient proposition for Lagos, Nigeria high-rise buildings PhD
  • Mosque Design in Britain - A Unified Approach PhD
  • The Spatial Morphology of Traditional Coastal Settlements in Eastern Java, Indonesia PhD
  • Planning Residential Segregation for West African Colonial Capitals: the Case of British Lagos (Nigeria) and French Dakar (Senegal) PhD
  • Urban Design Representation and Communication: Computer Visualisation and Public Perception in contemporary Portugal PhD
  • Giovanni Michelucci and the Establishment of the Profession of Architect in Italy (1922 - 1946) PhD
  • The Buildings of the Society of Jesus in the North-West of England, with Specific Reference to Preston MPhil

Research Locations

Study Colleges
Currently four colleges and a special projects unit contribute to student learning and research: Bioclimactics, Continuity in Architecture, Landscape and Urbanism, Materiality and MSA Projects.
PhD/MPhil courses
Our PhD/MPhil programme is intrinsically inter-disciplinary and is open to students with an interest in any aspect of architectural research.
MARC
The Manchester Architectural Research Centre, with research activity in interdisciplinary fields concerning architecture and the city.
MIRIAD’s City lab
A cross-disciplinary group looking at design and urbanism.