Research at msa /
PhD/MPhil Postgraduate Research /
PhD/MPhil Projects
Recent and ongoing projects undertaken by PhD/MPhil students.
- 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.