The Architecture Research & Design Center (ARDC) was created in 1993 to meet the research objectives of the Huckabee College of Architecture. The Research Committee of the college is responsible for strategic planning and faculty guidance of the ARDC.
The ARDC has individualized laboratories that direct research, design, service, and scholarly activity.
Mission Statement
The ARDC advances, catalyzes, and supports faculty research and design endeavors that support and align with the HCOA's core purpose and values, in order to help the College establish its standing and competitiveness within the discipline and profession.
Vision Statement
The ARDC supports and helps foster research, scholarship, creative and engagement activity that serves the global community involving stakeholders within the HCOA, TTU, and external contributors.
What We Do
The scope of research themes, methodologies and impactful outcomes within the ARDC reflects the diverse skills and specializations within architectural research at TTU. Projects range from humanities and social science-based work to computation and digital design and fabrication, urban design and sustainability, fundamental and applied materials investigations, design pedagogy, community engagement and design-builds enabling real world testing of architectural designs. Our work is frequently characterized by multidisciplinary collaborations, with faculty working together within the college, across campuses, and partnering with others across the university and externally. Collaborations include faculty at all ranks and levels of experience, as well as working with research students and external partners.
Annual reports documenting the hundreds of scholarly publications, exhibitions of creative work, community engaged projects, research grants and awards are archived below.
The ARDC is led by the Associate Dean for Research of the HCOA, Professor Nicole Porter [Nicole.porter@ttu.edu].