Urban Typologies

The Urban Typologies Research Cluster has a focus area that provides enormous scope for cross-disciplinary research, providing common ground for Built Environment staff interested in cultural landscapes, urban morphology, architectural history, heritage and urban design.

The distinguishing features of this cluster are:

1. it focuses on metropolitan Sydney and the major typologies that have shaped its urban and suburban environment
2. it is cross-disciplinary, representing architecture, planning, interior architecture and landscape architecture
3. its approach to research draws on cultural and critical theory
4. it will deliver outcomes will be in a diversity of media, including visual as well as textual forms of analysis, for example: exhibited research in the form of models, drawings and other visual representations, as well as monographs, catalogues, journal articles and conference papers.

The Research Cluster has members from the following Programs:

• Architecture
• Planning
• Interior Architecture
• Landscape Architecture.

Conveners:  Judith O’Callaghan and Paul Hogben

For more information about the cluster, contact Judith or Paul.