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Arfa Aijazi![]() |
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building performance simulations, data visualization, machine learning, and climate change adaptability. |
AMINA AL-KANDARI![]() |
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Alkandari is a PhD Candidate in Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, specialized in History of Architecture and Contemporary Urbanization in Developing Countries with focus on the Middle East and the Arab Gulf specifically. Her Ph.D. dissertation focuses on Nation-Building and Modernity in Kuwait from the Early 1900 to the present. |
Heba Alnajada![]() |
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Elnaz Bailey |
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Luis Filipe Batista |
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Laura Belik![]() |
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Urbanism, public space, politics of space, urban democracy, commons, Latin America, Brazil, post-industrial cities, urban palimpsest, art and activism, curatorial works, cultural frameworks, design studies, design theory, preservation and herritage, refugee and migration studies. |
Michelle Bynum |
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YING-FEN CHEN![]() |
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Chinese Urbanism, Cinema and Cities, Social Activism in East Asian context, Participatory Planning. My recent research focuses on the cultural process of urban imaginary making, film-induced tourism, and decentralized Chinese identities, particularly taking place in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the two major culturally Chinese locales beyond Mainland China. Dissertation working title: "The Contemporary Chinese Cinematic Urbanism in Taiwan and Hong Kong". |
Lai Jing Chu![]() |
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Media and environments, theories of leisure and enchantment in post-industrial modernity, history of collective emotions and its impact on spatial formation, urban gentrification and preservation, architectural and urban history of modern and contemporary Hong Kong, China, and East Asia. |
Alexander Craghead![]() |
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I am a historian of technology, representation, and landscape. I research the cultural intersection of meaning, change, and place, through both form and representation. I therefore study the built environment, the rhetoric that surrounds changes in that environment, and the visual depiction of place. I am particularly interested in the relationship between newness and age, especially in the processes of urban renewal, redevelopment, and gentrification, as well as the history and culture of the historic preservation movement. The nature of my work is interdisciplinary, in that it combines history, geography, and art history. Presently, I study sites on the U.S. West Coast, as here, in the youngest of Euro-American cities, the constructed nature of age and obsolescence is more easily seen. I am particularly interested in the ways that buildings, both intentionally and unintentionally, become arguments in larger cultural struggles, as well as exist as tangible evidence of real winners and losers in the making of place. More broadly, I am interested in architecture as media, the role of the urban imaginary, and cities as cultural landscapes. |
Megan Dawe |
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Ms. Dawe comes with a background in California state building energy codes and consulting on new construction projects. Her research interests are to identify appropriate and climatically-driven solutions for buildings and to enhance the tools necessary for designers to accurately assess and implement these solutions to faciliate achievement of California’s Zero Net Energy goals. |
CAITLIN DECLERCQ![]() |
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Social research theories and methods in environmental design; the history and theory of college campus planning and design; social and historical contexts of educational spaces; evidence-based design; college health promotion; place and health; social determinants of health (social epidemiology); physical activity and sedentary physiology |
Giuseppina Forte![]() |
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Spatial Politics; Inequality; Epistemologies of Architecture and Planning; History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism; Decolonizing Pedagogies; Racial Capitalism; Urban Peripheries; Brazil; Peripheral Subjectivities. |
Jennifer Gaugler![]() |
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Historic and contemporary architecture and urbanism of East Africa; globalization, postcolonialism, vernacular building traditions, and urban planning |
Razieh Ghorbani![]() |
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The everyday politics of architecture and construction in the Middle East; urban anthropology; architectural globalization and its rhetoric; postcolonial and alternative modernities |
JAIME GÓMEZ![]() |
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Dissertation: Learning through Domestic Settings: Institutional Domesticity and the Making of Model Citizens (working title): My dissertation explores how two institutions (boarding schools) used domestic settings and practices to influence children’s behavior with the aim of making model citizens. I use methods from cultural landscape studies to understand how the values promoted by these schools were coded in the institutions’ spatial configurations, and how children learned these values. I read the spatial settings of the institutions studied as domestic space. |
Caroline Karmann![]() |
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Indoor environmental quality (including thermal comfort, visual comfort, acoustic comfort & indoor air quality), energy efficiency, user behavior |
Mohammad Keshavarzi![]() |
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Generative Modeling, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Collaborative Telepresence, Design Computation |
Joyce (Jihyun) Kim |
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Thermal comfort, occupant behavior, machine learning, energy efficiency, demand response and smart grids. |
Antony Kim![]() |
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Behavioral neurobiology and architecture, lighting for circadian health, post-occupancy evaluation, affordable housing policy, circular economy, and indoor environmental quality in animal research. |
Jihyun Kim |
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Won Hee Ko |
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Visual and thermal comfort and its relationship to occupants' well-being and performance, with a focus on the performance of building envelope. |
Jolene Lee |
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History of Architecture and Urbanism (20th Century), Architecture and Art Exhibition Histories, Ecocriticism, Comparative Asian Studies, Global Modernisms, Environmental Histories |
Padma Maitland![]() |
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Art and Architecture in South Asia; Buddhism; Conservation and heritage; Countercultural exchanges between India and California. |
Dana Miller![]() |
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Michelle Min![]() |
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History of American school architecture; Social construction of childhood; Purpose-built spaces for children and learning; Possibilities for intersection between critical pedagogy, architectural history, and contemporary design practice |
Thomas Oommen![]() |
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Modern South Asia, Labor and Expertise, History and Philosophy of Science, Post colonial theory, Subaltern Studies |
Tania Osorio Harp![]() |
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Design processes, the appropriation of spaces, methods of representation, architecture as an archive, design genealogies, Mexican identity, mestizaje, cultural landscape studies, critical race theories, women and gender studies. |
Eric Peterson |
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Architectural and Urban History, Political Economy, Urban Theory, U.S. Cultural History |
Kara Plaxa![]() |
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My research is structured around the places where sex happens and how sex is spatialized. I am currently investigating the spaces of the kink community with an emphasis on queer sexuality and subcultures. I am also interested in aesthetics, materiality, and fashion. I aim to enrich current discourse on gender and sexuality & through architsexture |
Elaina Present![]() |
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Building energy use; data-based energy analysis; grid modernization; occupant behavior; existing buildings; fans |
Rina Priyani![]() |
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History of architecture and urbanism in the 20th century; National identity in developing countries; Ethnicity and territoriality; Colonial and Postcolonial cities; Politics of heritage; Collective memory; Southeast Asia; Indonesia. Dissertation working title: "Remaking Bandung: Ethnic Identities, Colonialism and Building Practice in an Indonesian City" |
Trude Renwick |
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Urban Ethnography in Bangkok, Thailand; Currently Examining the Space of the Market in Bangkok, which includes Malls, Street Markets, and Abandoned Buildings; Urban Conflict and Political Movements; Urban Theory; Non Governmental Organizations; Anthropology |
Emily J. Rosen |
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Valentina Rozas-Krause![]() |
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Valentina Rozas-Krause is interested in the History of Architecture and Urbanism, Memorials and Monuments, Cultural Memory, Theories of Urban Design and Planning, Landscape Design and Cultural Geography. Her dissertation research focuses on the representation of memories of twentieth century traumas in public urban space in Argentina, Germany and the United States. She studies monuments on two levels: as an emerging global practice of memorialization and as places for everyday life. Valentina grew up in Berlin and Santiago. |
Alberto Sanchez-Sanchez![]() |
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Modern architecture; vernacular architecture; infrastructures and public works; historic preservation; media studies; anthropology; demography; human rights; material culture; public policy; rural areas; Spanish and European studies. |
Ettore Santi![]() |
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Global Agrarian Histories; Urban Design Theory and Criticism; Land and Space; China Rural-Urban Studies. |
Haripriya Sathyanarayanan![]() |
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Research Interests: Evidence-based Design, Immersive Environments and Experience in Healthcare Spaces, Enhanced Patient and Family Experiences, Human-Centric Design, Smart Hospital Environments, Digital Technology and Disruptions in Healthcare, User Behavior, Healthcare Quality Care & Delivery. Specializations: Total Building Performance, Sustainable Healthcare Design, Building Performance Simulations, Passive Design Strategies, Healing Environments. |
Cailin Shannon |
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Shahrzad Shirvani |
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Contemporary urban history of developing countries with a focus on Iran; Politics of everyday life in the Middle Eastern cities with a focus on Tehran; Construction of national identity through practices of shared memory and commemoration in Iran; Contemporary histories and narratives of monuments, Traditions and Modernities in the context of the Middle East; Cities, citizenship, and urban transformations; gendered segregation and urban politics of social control; Publicity and ‘freedom’; Public spaces of leisure and entertainment. |
Noam Shoked![]() |
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History of architecture and urbanism, ordinary landscapes, urban anthropology, and Middle Eastern studies |
Alec Stewart![]() |
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ELAINE BROWN STILES![]() |
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Twentieth-century U.S. architecture and urbanism, nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. and European suburban development and design, the history of consumerism and spaces of consumption, material culture, vernacular architecture, and cultural landscape studies |
Desirée Valadares![]() |
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Swetha Vijayakumar![]() |
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Architectural history and historiography, Postcolonial theories in architecture and urbanism, Subaltern architecture, Politics of memory in urban enviroments, Patronage and production of contemporary Hindu sites, Colonial historiographies of Hindu temples, Anthropology of urban tourism, Religious nationalism and emergence of modern religious movements in 20th and 21st century India. |
Jonathan Woolley![]() |
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Jonathan Woolley studies energy efficient mechanical systems for buildings. Most broadly, his research encompasses hybrid solutions that integrate various system types to facilitate comfortable and healthy indoor environments with minimal energy consumption. Jonathan advances climate appropriate strategies that embrace the unique needs and opportunites associated with local environmental condiitions. He has conducted research on passive solar design, natural ventilation, radiant cooling and heating, indirect evaporative cooling, advanced heat pump systems, heat recovery, occupancy based learning thermostat controls, and many other energy efficiency strategies. |
JIONG (ABINGO) WU![]() |
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Histories and Approaches of 20th Century Mass Housing; Theories and Histories of 20th Century Urbanism; Interdisciplinary China Study; China urbanizing villages. Dissertation: “Alternative Housing and Living in Guangzhou Peri-urban Villages” |
Stathis G. Yeros![]() |
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My doctoral research focused on the spaces that queer and transgender people have historically inhabited in the United States, what they reveal for cultural representations of gender, race, and sexuality, and what lessons they hold for designers and planners. My dissertation, From Queer Spaces to Insurgent Citizenship, probed into the histories of a number of queer and transgender spaces in San Francisco and Oakland, which demonstrate that the bifurcation of these spaces into assimilationist and separatist in much of the existing literature does not capture their complexity. I argue that particular demands were articulated as citizenship rights on the basis of both sexuality and urbanity. These demands changed over time, and with regard to the particular characteristics of each space. The genealogy of queer and trans struggles for space and citizenship in the Bay Area recovers old tools that can assist current fights. More broadly, in my dissertation and published work I employ the concept of “queer urbanism” to contextualize insurgent spatial practices and discourses in effective coalitional politics. I argue that for this to be possible, urban theory and spatial practice have to account for non-binary conceptualizations of space beyond the public/private, male/female, grassroots/institutional dichotomies. Before my doctoral studies I obtained a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley and worked as a designer in the Bay Area in the field of housing and education. Besides my professional and scholarly work I have developed solo and group experimantal performances. |