The Doctor of Architecture (Ph.D.) is a research degree suitable for students seeking a profession in teaching and scholarship in architecture and related areas, or positions in government or as a consultant requiring specialization and experience in research.

In this research programme, the final thesis should offer an essential knowledge of the field of architectural design, taking into account the latest developments in design and new trends, including the use of new materials and new housing needs starting from the optimization of living spaces.

In this research program, the final thesis should offer an essential knowledge of the field of architectural design, taking into account the latest developments in design and new trends, including the use of new materials and new housing needs starting from the optimization of living spaces.  Use a descriptive method to illustrate how to critically solve problems in this field. Provide step-by-step guidance in the design, selection, and creation of any type of building style.

The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria is a leading source of graduates in the engineering, built environment, and information technology professions. We achieve this by a focus on research to drive innovative and inquiry-led teaching for educating and positioning our students to be leaders in their professions. The Faculty has extensive and cutting-edge teaching, learning, and laboratory facilities integrated with the excellent suite of facilities and services offered by the University. We facilitate access to our qualifications through our extended programs but expect our students to excel and develop as future professionals through our program offerings. We invite you to consider enrolling in one of our programs if you share our vision of excellence and want to position yourself as a leader in the professions that we support.

The PhD in Architecture at Universidade Lusófona do Porto has as its main objective the training of researchers and teachers in the field of Architecture. The present proposal aims to satisfy the need for innovative and creative training in the country and in the Portuguese-speaking space in its area of expertise, Architecture.

The PhD programme in Architecture is a four-year research degree offering independent research in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. It is intended for persons who wish to enter teaching and advanced research careers with a commitment to make an original contribution to the field. The programme places emphasis on originality, significance, and methodology in topics engaging pertinent issues in Asia and China, as well as important intersections with international and cross-cultural contexts.

The PHD in Historic Preservation was launched in 2017 and is oriented toward the training of future historic preservation scholars. The first of its kind in the United States, the program aims to expand the discipline’s range of intellectual entanglements and cultivate new paradigms for scholarly research, experimental practice, global action, and communication.

The doctorate provides a space of training and advanced high-level research not only for those from the academy, but also for those who deal with architecture in the context of professional practice to whom this course presents the possibility of deepening knowledge and developing skills in the area of Architecture. The thesis can integrate practical work of the project in architecture as a form of advanced research, as a context of scientific research. The course is intended to work within an international context, empowering students to work in a high academic level in a global competitive; Provides transdisciplinary knowledge on conceptual, formal and practical issues, on critical thinking, in planning and accomplishment works such as context landscape, in a comprehensive way, as cultural heritage (monumental, industrial, urban, architectural and landscape) in a more specific way with research application.

The PIDA is a postgraduate course of high academic level, recognized by the National Quality Postgraduate Program (PNPC) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) as a Program of International Competence. It arose in an alliance of Universities of the Central West Region, which, combining their resources and competences, today offer a program that reaches the highest quality standards, to which its Basic Academic Nucleus, made up of twenty-seven professors - researchers with solid academic training, high level of qualification and great experience in the field of research in Architecture. This doctoral program of great academic quality has existed since 2002 and was a pioneer of its kind in the Central West Region of the country; The Autonomous University of Aguascalientes participates in it, The PIDA was created in response to the urgent need to have highly trained people in the areas of Architecture, who are capable of developing high-level research and teaching activities in order to raise the academic quality of the educational programs that are offered. they offer in the region and in the country, as well as to encourage the generation and dissemination of knowledge.

PhD program is run at the Doctoral School at Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk Tech) and offers 4-year-long PhD training. It concerns the following disciplines: civil engineering and transport; architecture and urbanism; environmental engineering, mining and power engineering; materials engineering; mechanical engineering; control, electronic and electrical engineering; technical informatics and telecommunications; biomedical engineering. Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech) offers education in the Doctoral School which is free of charge, provides a scholarship, and a creative and interdisciplinary approach to research. Our school was founded in 2019 and started functioning as of the academic year 2019/2020. However, the doctoral studies at our university are more than 30 years old.

The program aims to cultivate scholars who formulate and conduct original scientific research in the field of Architecture and sub-research areas such as History of Architecture, Theory and Criticism, Cultural Studies, Environmental Control and Building Technology, Building Information, Urban Design. The target of the program is to provide students with basic theoretical approaches and accumulation of knowledge in the field of architecture and the listed sub-research areas at international, national and local scales.

Postgraduate course developed jointly by the Universidad de Concepción del Uruguay (UCU), the Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI) and the Universidad de Flores (UFLO). Provisional official recognition of CONEAU IF-2017-10326245-APN-CONEAU # ME

The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. HES Architectural Studies) degree is designed for individuals who are interested in acquiring the knowledge and skills that are needed to conduct substantive, innovative, and original research that contribute to the theoretical and methodological foundation of architecture and interior design, and the dissemination of this research through teaching, publication, and practice.

The School of Architecture offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Architectural Sciences to candidates prepared to undertake innovative and substantive research that adds to the body of knowledge drawn on by the design disciplines.