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Caio R. Castro is a Portuguese architect currently a PhD candidate at Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa. His main research interests are: Vernacular Urban Architecture; Evolutive Architecture; Architecture and Construction History; Classical Architecture Treatises.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Caio Alexandre Maronese Rodrigues de Castro

Citation names

  • Castro, Caio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0811-F0B2-CB94

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09/01 - 2024/03/31
Ongoing
 Arquitetura (Doutoramento)
Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/11/01
Concluded
 Arquitectura (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
 16
2006/02/01 - 2010/12/19
Concluded
 Arquitetura e urbanismo (Graduado)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/01 - 2022/12/31 Tutor (University Teacher) Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/08/01 - 2023/12/31 Arquitectura vernácula urbana acrescentada: Formas, usos e signos nas alterações ao preexistente. [EN] Vernacular additions towards urban buildings: Forms, uses and signs in changes to the pre-existing.
SFRH/BD/135977/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - Current Arcpland - Research Group in Architecture, Place and Landscape
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Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2019/03/01 From Lime to Portland Cement. Construction History and Building Cultures in Contemporary Portugal
IF/00792/2014/CP1259/CT0001
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Mascarenhas-Mateus, João; Castro, Caio. Corresponding author: Mascarenhas-Mateus, João. "The construction of gaiola pombalina in pictures: Historical photographs and the timber seismic reinforcement system in Lisbon, 1870-1910.". In Construction Matters - Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Construction History,, edited by Stefan Holzer; Silke Langenberg; Clemens Knobling; Orkun Kasap, 912-919. Switzerland: vdf Hochschulverlag AG, 2024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.3218/4166-8
  2. Castro, Caio; Pires, Amílcar Gil; Mascarenhas-Mateus, João. "From the planned "Dom-ino structure" to the building of their own space domain: the Bairro da Jamaica in Seixal.". In Materiality as a Process, edited by Manuel Couceiro da Costa; Bárbara Formiga; Günsu Merin Abbas, 111-120. Casal de Cambra, Portugal: Caleidoscópio, 2019.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Castro, Caio; Pires, Amílcar Gil. "From regulation to everyday construction practice. The Lisbon building codes between 1864 and 1930". Paper presented in 7th International Congress on Construction History (7ICCH 2021), Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  2. Castro, Caio. "Two design solutions in Lisbon around a rail overpass and the riverfront: a comparison of MAAT and the National Coach Museum.". Paper presented in CRITIC|ALL IV International Confernce on Architectural Design & Criticism, São Paulo, 2021.
    Published
  3. Castro, Caio; Pires, Amílcar Gil; Mascarenhas-Mateus, João. "The "second life" of a building. Hidden flexibility possibilities on appropriation of architectural space.". Paper presented in European Association for Architectural Education - Architectural Research Centers Consortium International Conference & 2nd VIBRArch, Valencia, 2020.
    Published
  4. Castro, Caio; Mario S. Ming Kong. "Creativity and pragmatism: A practical example of a project". Paper presented in Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy, Paris, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Castro, Caio; João Mascarenhas-Mateus; Pires, Amílcar Gil. "As mansardas da Baixa Pombalina de Lisboa, do século XVIII ao primeiro quartel do século XX: entre a rigidez do modelo e a variabilidade dos materiais. [ EN] The mansard roofs of Lisbon's Baixa Pombalina, from the 18th century to the first quarter of the 20th century: between the rigidity of the model and the variability of materials". Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal. 2 17 (2022): 87-108. http://arquivomunicipal.cm-lisboa.pt/pt/investigacao/cadernos-do-arquivo-municipal/2-serie/numero-17/.
    Open access • Published
  2. Castro, Caio; Pires, Amílcar Gil. "John Ruskin and the argumentation of the “imperfect” building as theoretical support for the understanding of the phenomenon today". RA | Restauro Archeolgico: Memories on John Ruskin .Unto this last - special issue (2019): 304-309.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/02/27 Building theory and practice of architecture: the didactic potential of video games. International Symposium - 3rd International Symposium “Construction of Contemporany Imaginaries: Space, Time and Cultures."
(Lisboa, Portugal)