UVA’s PhD in Architecture supports interdisciplinary research on the built environment, exploring design theory, spatial politics, urban history, and global heritage. Students engage with archival research, critical theory, and digital humanities as they develop dissertations that challenge conventional design discourse.
Postcolonial spatial narratives in North African architectural heritage
Digital reconstruction of lost civic monuments using archival data
The role of feminist theory in 20th-century architectural pedagogy
Climate memory and built form in post-disaster communities
Transnational architectural exchanges in Cold War urbanism
The ethics of preservation in contested heritage sites
Speculative urbanism and the future of suburban design
Environmental determinism in colonial-era city planning
Architecture and labor: tracing migrant worker housing typologies
Narrative cartographies of informal settlements in Latin America
Material agency and symbolism in Brutalist design
Decolonizing architecture education: syllabus interventions
AI and spatial cognition in computational design theory
Sacred space and acoustical memory in religious structures
Data visualization of urban growth through archival photo-mapping
Advance architectural scholarship and critical design research through UVA’s PhD in Architecture.
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