Research

Research at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape brings together the space-shaping disciplines of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, environmental planning, and professional studies in construction within a unique national and international framework. 

The Faculty’s research focus areas define its strategic perspective and strengths: Shaping Sustainable and Liveable Cties and Regions; Advancing Design Research in Architecture and Landscape; Planning for Regenerative and Resilient Ecosystems and Biodiversity conservation; Pioneering Technologies: Data-driven Design and donstruction for Architecture and Environment; Extending Heritage Studies, Material Sciences and Knowledge Transfer.

These research priorities respond to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, in particular the goal of sustainable cities and communities, and to challenges such as climate neutrality and climate adaptation, energy and resource issues, resilience, biodiversity and social cohesion. They aim to develop innovative concepts and methods of spatial design to enhance quality of life in cities and countryside.

Outstanding research and development projects, research collaborations within university networks, with other faculties at Leibniz University Hannover and with international partners, as well as the research activities of the institutes, demonstrate the faculty’s commitment to research. A particular strength of the faculty is its cooperation with non-university partners such as cities, businesses, and cultural and social organisations in transdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer, which forms the basis for high research impact.

The faculty places particular emphasis on the qualitative development of academic cultures in architecture and landscape in terms of methodology, results and publications. The faculty-wide formats introduced in the doctoral programme, such as the Lunchtime Lectures series, the Open Research methodological colloquium, the AULET research incentive funding, and international double-degree programmes, together with doctoral colloquia and seminars organised by the institutes, ensure excellent training for early-career researchers.