The Main Research Areas

Relevant research needs to address some of the ‘big questions’ faced by society today. With the aim to encourage closer co-operation between university researchers and private sector industry, Professor Steffen Lehmann’s five main – and intertwined – priority research areas are:

• Architectural History & Theory: Identity and Regionalism - how to maintain regional diversity and meaning in Architecture and Urban Design in times of globalisation and rapid urbanization?
  
  
• Analysis of architectural and urban space: Public Space Networks. What are the new types of public spaces needed for the contemporary city, to transform and revitalise our centres?
  
  
• The conceptual model of ‘Green Urbanism’: Research in emerging models of energy-efficient cities and buildings, with a focus on the urban scale.
  
  
• Interdisciplinarity: Collaboration between art and architecture; strategies for informal, site-specific interventions in public space.
  
  
• Sustainability of architectural and urban design: Capacity building in sustainability knowledge in the developing world. Long-term strategic research alliances with countries in Asia and along the Pacific Rim. 

Priority Research Areas