Director: Reinhold Martin, Architecture
Director: Lance Freeman, Urban Planning

Ph.D. research plays an increasingly important role in the evolution of all the fields devoted to the built environment -- challenging traditional assumptions by raising new questions or carefully rethinking old ones.

It is only by developing new forms of research that a school like GSAPP can play its international leadership role in guiding the profession towards new potentialities and responsibilities. The professional obligations of the school are not at odds with its academic obligations as part of a great research university. On the contrary. To provide the highest level of professional expertise in each of its disciplinary specialties, the school has to continually challenge, redefine and refine those specialties. Academic research, particularly that done at the doctoral level, plays a major role in this ongoing redefinition.