Faculty Labs
Faculty generate new knowledge in research labs while working collaboratively with students, postdoctoral fellows, other scholars, and stakeholders.
Environmental Systems Lab
Timur Dogan
Specializes in sustainable architecture and urbanism through research across design, engineering, computation, and building performance simulation.
Rural-Urban Building Innovation Lab
Leslie Lok
Explores the intersection of urbanization, novel material methods, and technology to create and experiment with hybridized design and construction processes in the urban fringe.
Housing + Property Lab
Suzanne Lanyi Charles
Examines the effects of global housing investment on local neighborhoods and household access to affordable, secure, and stable housing.
Regenerative Architecture Lab
Marta H. Wisniewska
Investigates alternative building materials and innovative construction techniques for a healthier and more regenerative built environment in the context of developed and developing territories.
Local Government Restructuring Lab
Mildred Warner
From finance and infrastructure policy to economic development, planning, and public health, the Local Government Restructuring Lab explores cutting-edge research to inform public practice.
Housing Innovation Lab
Katharina Kral
Investigating the intersections of environmental, societal, and well-being concerns linked to housing, the lab explores synergies between building performance and quality of life across scales and their potential to reshape domestic space and architectural workflows.
Adaptive Land Lab
Linda Shi
Studies why cities adopt regressive climate adaptation practices and what alternative approaches to property rights, land use and fiscal policies, and regional governance would enable more equitable and sustainable futures.
Legal Constructs Lab
Sara Bronin
Leads interdisciplinary projects in property, land use, historic preservation, and energy, inquiring into how law can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places.
Water In, Water Out Lab
Victoria A. Beard
Produces new research on the water to waste cycle, across actionable scales, from source protection to household access. The lab connects knowledge to action to create more equitable and sustainable urban water management systems.
Transportation Access and Policy Lab
Nicholas J. Klein
Focused on urban transportation, the lab studies the role that transportation plays in social and economic mobility, public opinions, and new technologies.
Circular Construction Lab
FELIX HEISEL
Activates research to shift material consumption toward a circular model for designing and building a sustainable, low / no-carbon construction industry.
Realtime Urbanism Lab
Farzin Lotfi-Jam
Investigates the social impacts of new technologies that virtualize cities and populations. The lab produces research using extended reality interfaces, gaming engines, agent-based simulations, digital twins, and smart urban systems.
&Lab
Suzanne Lettieri, María González Pendás
A space born out of collaboration aimed at fostering new pedagogies and modes of public and civic-academic alliance through architectural design, architectural humanities, and the modes of research, teaching, and learning that animate them.
Just Places Lab
Jennifer Minner
A multi-disciplinary research lab for igniting creative action, public imagination, and participatory place-keeping in the built environment.
Design Across Scales Lab
Alex Kobald, J. Meejin Yoon
A research platform, creative think tank, and incubator working at the intersection of the built environment, technology, sociology, and ecology.