ABSTRACT
Ross Jenner discussed the history of the creative practice PhD at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and its transformation from a traditional research-based PhD to its present form, as the first practice-based PhD in an architecture school in New Zealand. Jenner elaborated on the differences between their program and the practice-based doctoral program at the RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.* The creative practice PhD requires the development of new work to probe a research question through both design and a dissertation. The scholar spoke about the nontraditional approaches to research that arose from non-Western knowledge, opening up an East/West dialogue in the program. Other programs, primarily in the fine arts, which often require an exhibit of the work, served as a model for the practice-based PhDs in architecture. Jenner discussed his experience in the history and theory of architecture PhD at Penn in the 1980s.**
