Research Strengths
ABP has a long-standing, international reputation in a number of key areas. Our ongoing strengths in architectural history in Australia and Asia, theories of place and place-making, and in transport planning have been long acknowledged by significant success in national and international competitive grants and other funding.
Our research is naturally interdisciplinary and looks at solving real-world problems. This gives us the capacity to address broad research questions and global issues.
ABP has identified four key areas of research concentration that cut across our disciplinary boundaries:
- Cities and Urban Environments
- Housing and urban intensification
- Creating and sustaining urban environments
- Efficient and sustainable use of resources
- Construction practices within the urban environment
- Transport and land-use policy and planning
- ‘Liveability’ and urban design
- Urban heritage
- Urban landscapes
- Community Infrastructures
- Planning, designing and constructing critical infrastructure
- Design of schools and other learning environments
- Judicial facilities and precincts
- Municipal services and spaces
- Healthcare and hospital environments
- Vulnerable Environments
- Creating , planning, understanding and designing safe and healthy environments
- Planning for participation of children, the homeless, indigenous communities and developing countries
- Planning and design mitigations against climate change and natural disasters
- Design, Theory and Practice in the Global Environment
- New methods and technologies in design, fabrication and construction
- The impact of digital technologies on design practice and management
- Cross-cultural issues in managing global practice
Funded Research
ABP researchers have enjoyed considerable success in winning external funding to support their work. Current Faculty projects are supported by grants from the Australian Research Council and from government, cultural, industry and community organisations.