Curriculum Vitae
Mahdi Alizadeh
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Mahdi Alizadeh
Citation names
- Mahdi Alizadeh
- Mohammadmahdi Alizadeh
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2619-4B66-2A86
Email addresses
- up201802608@up.pt (Professional)
- mmalizadeh27@gmail.com (Personal)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Persian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Italian | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) |
| Finnish | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
| Arab | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2023/09 - 2027
Ongoing
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Programa de Doutoramento em Arquitetura (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
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2022
Concluded
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Arquitectura (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
"The Pursuit of Presence in Architecture: A phenomenological narrative of Naqsh-e Jahan square of Ispahan" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Mestrado: 16/20 Dissetação: 20/20 |
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2020/09/01 - 2021/07/01
Concluded
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Regeneración Urbana, Rehabilitación y Diseño (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universidade de Salamanca, Spain
MADIN, Spain |
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2019
Concluded
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licence d'architecture (Bachelor (1st cycle))
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/20 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/09 - Current | Doctoral Candidates´ Representative | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal |
| Comissão de Acompanhamento do PDA (Doctroal Monitoring Committee), Portugal | ||
| 2024/01/06 - Current | Architect | MVCC Arquitectos, Portugal |
| 2023/06 - 2024/02 | Architect | Harni-Takahashi Architecture & Design, Finland |
| 2020/09/01 - 2021/07/01 | Student Representative of the Second year of Master (Quinto Ano) in the Pedagogic Council | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal |
| 2019/09/01 - 2020/07/01 | Student Representative of the First year of Master (Quarto Ano) in the Pedagogic Council | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal |
| 2018/02/01 - 2018/05/01 | Intern Architect | Sylvie Soulas Architectes, France |
| 2016/06/01 - 2016/09/01 | Intern Architect | VLC Urban Studio, Spain |
Outputs
Publications
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| Conference paper |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/04/27 | Time, Memory and Experience in the Crafting of Space: Two examples, Fernando Távora and Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Scheduled Presentation | 11th International Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design
(Bologna, Italy)
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| 2025/04/27 | Pre-existent Environments and the Questions of Circumstance: Rethinking Tradition as a Paradigm of Sustainability in the Contemporary Architectural Discourse. Scheduled Presentation | 11th International Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design |
| 2025/02/12 | The Freedom of Constraints: Insights from the Innovative Housing Projects of Caccia Dominioni | MAIS DO QUE CASAS STARBURSTING
(Porto, Portugal)
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| 2024/09/26 | Inhabiting the Future: Crafting Architecture (in) The Body, (in) The Home, (in) The City, (in) the Cosmos | 8th International Conference on Global Practice of Multidisciplinary Scientific Studies
(Dubai, Italy)
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| 2024/06/19 | The Pursuit of Presence in Siza's Architecture; A Phenomenological Narrative of Piscina das Marés | European Research On Architecture And Urbanism International Conference
(Milan, Italy)
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| 2024/06/11 | Urbanisation in Emerging Economies: A Reading of Urban Policies in the Southern Zone of the Persian Gulf | The Seventh Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies
(Tampere, Finland)
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| 2022/11/16 | The Pursuit of Presence in Architecture: A phenomenological narrative of Naqsh-e Jahan square of Ispahan | Master´s Thesis Defence
(Porto, Portugal)
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| 2022/04/15 | Dynamic Symmetry, Harmony, and Balance in Naqsh-E-Jahan Square of Ispahan | Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress
International Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (Porto, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/04/22 - 2022/04/22 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Christian Kircher from Smartvoll Architekten, based
in Vienna. (2022/04/22 - 2022/04/22)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2022/04/14 - 2022/04/14 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Fabio Gramazio, co-founder of Gramazio Kohler Research,
based in Zurich. (2022/04/14 - 2022/04/14)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2022/03/25 - 2022/03/25 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Martin Neuwirther, Project Manager at Baumschlager
Eberle Architekten. (2022/03/25 - 2022/03/25)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2022/03/22 - 2022/03/22 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Andre Kempe, co-founder of Atelier Kempe Thill, based
in Rotterdam. (2022/03/22 - 2022/03/22)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2022/03/18 - 2022/03/18 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Philippe Nathan, Partner at 2001 Studio, based in
Esch-Alzette. (2022/03/18 - 2022/03/18)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2022/03/04 - 2022/03/04 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Christopher Zeller, co-founder of Zeller & Moye, based
in Berlin. (2022/03/04 - 2022/03/04)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2021/06/18 - 2021/06/18 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Dr.Juhani Pallasmaa, Finnish Architect, Author and
Theoretician, based in Helsinki (2021/06/18 - 2021/06/18)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2021/06/04 - 2021/06/04 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Samppa Lappalainen, CEO at JKMM, based in Helsinki. (2021/06/04 - 2021/06/04)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2021/05/21 - 2021/05/21 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Patrcik Lueth, partner at Snohetta, based in Oslo. (2021/05/21 - 2021/05/21)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2021/05/07 - 2021/05/07 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Ted Schauman & Jonas Nordgren, co-founders of Schauman
Nordgren Architects, based in Helsinki and Copenhagen. (2021/05/07 - 2021/05/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2021/04/23 - 2021/04/23 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Rahel Belatchew, founder of Belatchew Arkitekter,
based in Stockholm. (2021/04/23 - 2021/04/23)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2021/04/16 - 2021/04/16 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks. Invited guest: Ville Hara, co-founder of Avanto Architects, based
in Helsinki. (2021/04/16 - 2021/04/16)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
| 2021/04/09 - 2021/04/09 | Head of the round-table Café com Esquissos, Archi-Talks, in the opening sessions of the first cycle. Invited guest: Espen
Surnevik, professor at Oslo School of Architecture (AHO) and founder of Espen Survenik Architects. From January 2020 to August
2021, Espen Surnevik was given the task of leading the Institute as the Head of the Institute of Architecture. (2021/04/09 - 2021/04/09)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Café com Esquissos, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/06/03 - Current | Correspondent Writer (relator) in Mais Do Que Casas, in the second encounter
Seminar
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Mais Do Que Casas
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
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| 2022/05/24 - Current | Representative of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in an event held by the European Commission, Portuguese
Government, and The City of Porto in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto
Conference
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The future of Europe and the youth: Sustainability, Climatic action, Digital transformation and Employment I O futuro
da Europa e os jovens: sustentabilidade, ação climática, transformação digital e emprego
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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| 2021/12/01 - Current | Representative of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in the program "NEB goes South".
Conference
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Kilometer Zero Architecture
New European Bauhaus, Spain
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| 2024/01/29 - 2024/02/02 | NADA NOVO / NO NEWS is an association that promotes the reuse of components and construction materials, and explores the cultural
challenges of their application.
Workshop
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NadaNovo |
| 2023/09/18 - 2023/09/24 | Participating member of Harni-Takahashi Office in Tallin Design Festival The 18th Tallinn Design Festival was DESIGN 4.0.
AI: Industrial (un)employment?. The hot topic of AI, its opportunities and threats to the design sector were addressed by
Estonian and international experts.
Exhibition
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Tallin Design Festival
Tallin Design Festival, Estonia
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| 2023/09/08 - 2023/09/17 | Participating member of Harni-Takahashi Office in Helsinki Design Week.
Helsinki Design Week presents new people and phenomena within design in cooperation with various partners. Established in
2005, Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. Helsinki Design Weekly is the leading design
media in Finland, featuring phenomena, news and discussion related to design and architecture every week. Subscribe to Weekly
newsletter here.
Exhibition
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Helsinki Design Week 2023
Helsinki Design Week, Finland
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/01/15 - 2025/01/15 | Open Lecture. Tabula Rasa. Architecture, War and Peace: A Perspective on Coexistence and Common Memory in the Post-War Period | TAPRI | Tampere University, Finland |
| 2024/02/28 - 2024/02/28 | Open Lecture (Aula Aberta). The Tectonic Practice & the Multiplicity of the Body of Architecture | Arquitetura (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal |
| 2021/05/16 - 2021/05/16 | Open Lecture. Architectural Pedagogy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | (Magister) | Iranian Center of Architecture, Iran |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2021 | Project Selection in the yearly exhibition (ANUÁRIA); "Hisotry of Portuguese Architecture: Historic Study of Penas Roias"
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
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