- Individual buildings and building types
- History of architecture and the built environment
- Architectural theory
- Developments in construction
- Town planning
- Allied arts such as painting and sculpture
- Social Research examines the people who inhabit and use the spaces of architecture
- Technological Research studies the physical materials, methods, elements, systems, and science of architecture and the design and construction processes
- Environmental Research investigates the physical context of architecture, opening timely questions about the influence of society on environment
- Cultural Research studies place-making and the norms of the inhabitants of natural and built places past, present, and future
- Organizational Research examines the ways in which individuals and teams collaborate in the practice of architecture and in the client organizations
- Design Research considers the processes of shaping and making of places
- Educational Research examines the pedagogies of architecture and related fields