Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- María Candela Suárez
Citation names
- Suárez, María Candela
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- D218-3668-05D0
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0375-8664
Email addresses
- play@arplaytecture.com (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 926116407 (Personal)
- (+45) 50323477 (Personal)
Websites
- https://flup.academia.edu/MariaCandelaSuarez (Scholar)
- https://arplaytecture.com (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
- Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
- Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2019/09/01 - 2021/10/29
Concluded
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Design for Play (Master)
Major in Design
Designskolen Kolding, Denmark
"arPLAYtecture, the deck to include the user in the creative architectural process" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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12/12 |
2001/09/01 - 2007/03/02
Concluded
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Doctorate in Architectural Projects - Research Line 1: The Modern Form (Doctor)
Major in Architectural Projects
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
"Las villas Meyer y Hutheesing-Shodhan de Le Corbusier" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Sobresaliente Cum Laude |
1993/03/01 - 1999/12/23
Concluded
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Architecture and Urbanism (Graduado)
Major in Architecture
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
"Architectonical Project and Master plan for the International Airport of Buenos Aires, Argentina
" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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8,63/10 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2013 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura Espaço e Memória, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2014 - 2017 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal |
2014 - 2016 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal |
2008/12/02 - 2012/12/01 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020 - 2020 | Design research play-based intrapreneurship | Designskolen Kolding, Denmark |
GIVSKUD ZOO ZOOTOPIA, Denmark |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2003 - 2004 | La villa Hutheesing-Shodhan de Le Corbusier
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Principal investigator
Fondation Le Corbusier, France
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Fondation Le Corbusier
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2016 - 2024 | Polychromie architecturale de Le Corbusier. Edición crítica en español.
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Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura Espaço e Memória, Portugal
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Not funded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Exhibition catalog |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Report |
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Website |
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Artistic / Performance
Artistic exhibition |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2021 | Between Indian Tradition and Corbusian Modernity: The Case of the Villa Hutheesing-Shodhan. | Giornata di studi Ahmedabad. Laboratorio di Architettura
Departamento di Culture del Progetto. Università Iuav di Venezia (Venezia, Italy)
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2019 | From the line to the word, from the researcher to the student: Le Corbusier's creative process through the Genetic criticism's point of view | Genesis Cracow 2019: Genetic Criticism: from Theory to Practice International Conference
Jagiellonian University in Cracow/Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) (Cracow, Poland)
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2017 | Le Corbusier between lines: reality and fiction in the drawings for the villa Meyer” | Cycle “Author Lessons: Le Corbusier"
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2017 | De la concepción a la divulgación: el error como herramienta creativa en el proceso de proyecto de Le Corbusier | 6th Seminar CITCEM, Erros meus, fortuna nossa: da falha como acerto
CITCEM, Faculty of Letters, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2016 | La dimensión poética y el impacto histórico de las cartas de negocios en Le Corbusier | 5th Seminar CITCEM As Linhas e as Letras: Epistolografia e Memória da cultura escrita
CITCEM, Faculty of Letters, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2016 | The [meta]project and the ‘episodic articulation’ of the space/form | Sustainable Housing 2016. International Conference on Sustainable Housing Planning, Management and Usability
Universidade Lusiada Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2015 | Polychromie Architecturale: some observations on the 1931 manuscript and its variants | International Congress Le Corbusier 50 years after
Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
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2013 | Le Corbusier and the suspended gardens | Versus. Master in Architecture
Madrid Technical High School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
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2012 | Partnership as a pedagogical strategy in Architectural Design III-UBI | CHANGE, Architecture, Education, Practices. 2012 ACSA International Conference
ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) (Barcelona, Spain)
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2009 | Fragments of Nature: The Suspended Gardens of Le Corbusier | Symposium Le Corbusier Revisited. Southern Polytechnic State University
Southern Polytechnic State University – Architecture Department (Atlanta, United States)
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2008 | La villa Hutheesing-Shodhan: un jardín suspendido en Ahmedabad | Encuentro Estudios sobre Le Corbusier
Granada Technical High School of Architecture (Granada, Spain)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2016 - 2017 | “Pele cinética na arquitectura: uma possível solução para pré-existências, uma ferramenta para novas construções”
Supervisor
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Integrated Master's Course in Architecture (Master)
Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
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2016 - 2017 | “Promenade architecturale. Paralelismos hápticos na arquitectura e no cinema”
Supervisor
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Integrated Master's Course in Architecture (Master)
Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
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2016 - 2017 | “O despertar dos sentidos na arquitectura a traves da curva”
Supervisor
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Integrated Master's Course in Architecture (Master)
Universidade Lusíada Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes, Portugal
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2016 - 2017 | “Experiência háptica na arquitectura”
Supervisor
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Integrated Master's Course in Architecture (Master)
Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
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2014 - 2017 | The Energy Efficiency in Sustainable Building Rehabilitation - Case studies in Covilhã.
Co-supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2011 - 2012 | “Requalificação e revitalização do património arquitectónico e etnológico das salinas em Portugal. Intervenção na Ilha da
Marruceira (Figueira de Foz)”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2011 - 2012 | “Cidades verticais. A reinvenção da Unité d’Habitation à Marseille de Le Corbusier como tipologia habitacional contemporânea”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2011 - 2012 | “Uma questão de espaço: Protótipo de alojamento mínimo flexível”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2011 - 2012 | “Arquitectura de emergência. Projectar para zonas de catástrofe”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2011 - 2012 | “Flexibilidade e Mutação - Proposta de sistema modular flexível para habitação colectiva na Covilhã”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2011 - 2012 | “O Solar dos Távoras: Intervir na arquitectura, Potenciar o património”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2010 - 2011 | “Dinâmicas culturais como detonantes do desenvolvimento local. Proposta para a cidade da Covilhã”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2010 - 2011 | “Estação de transição entre transportes de alta capacidade: Estação Intermodal de Barcelona (Espanha)”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2010 - 2011 | “Centro de Artes em Nova Iorque. Uma conexão física entre Manhattan e Bronx, em torno da ponte Highbridge”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2009 - 2010 | “Biomimetismo – sustentabilidade inspirada pela natureza: Remodelação do edifício atribuído aos 4º e 5º anos do curso de Arquitectura
na UBI”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2009 - 2010 | “Um estudo acerca de Le Corbusier: O caso das habitações rurais em série (1955-1957)”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2009 - 2010 | “Torre de Santo António: Reabilitação, Revitalização e Reinvenção”
Co-supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2009 - 2010 | “Conhecimento sensorial. O modelo táctil na experimentação de espaços, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves”
Co-supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2008 - 2009 | “Arquitectura e Design, Design em Arquitectura. Divergência ou convergência?”
Co-supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2008 - 2009 | “A arquitectura como espaço modular: forma, dimensão, versatilidade, identidade e sustentabilidade”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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2008 - 2009 | “Um estudo para a recuperação do património molinológico”
Supervisor
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Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2015 - Current | Scientific Coordinator of the Cycle “Le Corbusier, os arquitectos e os livros” (“Le Corbusier, Architects and Books”), with
the participation of the researchers Juan Calatrava Escobar and Jorge Torres Cueco and architects Álvaro Siza and João Luís
Carrilho da Graça. Funding entity: EDP Foundation. Auditório do Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal.
(2015)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Fundação EDP, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2022 - Current | Moderator Round Table “Learning to learn” (organisers: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, FAU-Facultad Arquitectura
y Urbanismo-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya)
Round table
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Second Cycle of Round Tables On Architectural Education: Formative Processes-Learning and Teaching
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
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2021/08 - 2021/08 | Intervention in public space “Scale the Change”, Kolding, Denmark. https://conference2021nordes.org/location/
Conference
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NORDES 2021 Exhibition, 9th NORDES Design Research Conference. Matters of Scale.
Designskolen Kolding, Denmark
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2015 - 2016 | Participation in public exhibition with students' works developed in Research Seminar About Le Corbusier and the Loucheur houses. | Le Corbusier à l’École (Le Corbusier at School)
Universitat Politècnica de València Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Spain
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2015 - 2015 | Moderator Round Table on Le Corbusier
Round table
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Le Corbusier, os arquitectos e os livros
Fundação EDP, Portugal
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Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - Current | Member of the Scientific Committee, LC. Revue de recherches sur Le Corbusier. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València
(Spain), Fondation Le Corbusier (Paris, France).
Member
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Universitat Politècnica de València Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Spain Fondation Le Corbusier, France |
2015 - Current | Member of the Scientific Committee for the International Congress Le Corbusier 50 years after
Member
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Universitat Politècnica de València Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Spain |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2015 - 2015 | International Congress Le Corbusier 50 years after | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2021 - 2021 | Projetos arquitectónicos | Remote workshop The Lunchtime Experiment (Licenciatura) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Designskolen Kolding, Denmark |
2014 - 2017 | Coordinator, Architectural Design III (3rd year), 1st and 2nd semester, school year 2015-2016. 41 ECTS. 480 hours. Assistant. Architectural Design V (5th year), 1st and 2nd semester, school years 2014-2015 and 2016-2017. 41 ECTS. 480 hours. Coordinator. Urban Architecture History (3rd year), 2nd semester, school year 2016-2017. 2 ECTS. 30 hours. | Integrated Master's Course in Architecture (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal |
2015 - 2016 | Coordinator, Research Seminar I about Le Corbusier (4th year), school years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. 6 ECTS. 48 hours. | Integrated Master's Course in Architecture (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal |
2008/12/02 - 2012/12/01 | Coordinator, Architectural Design III (3rd year), 1st and 2nd semester, school years 2008-2009 to 2012-2013. 10 ECTS/semester. 480 hours. Coordinator, Theory, History and Critics in Architecture (Doctorate in Architecture), 1st semester, school years 2009-2010 to 2011-2012. 6 ECTS. 30 hours. Assistant, Architectural Barriers. Master in Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, 1st and 2nd semester, school years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. 16 hours. Coordinator, Architectural Design I (1st year), 2nd semester, school year 2010-2011. 9 ECTS. 192 hours. | (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal |
2008/12/02 - 2012/12/01 | Coordinator, Architectural Design III (3rd year), 1st and 2nd semester, school years 2008-2009 to 2012-2013. 10 ECTS/semester. 480 hours. Coordinator, Theory, History and Critics in Architecture (Doctorate in Architecture), 1st semester, school years 2009-2010 to 2011-2012. 6 ECTS. 30 hours. Assistant, Architectural Barriers. Master in Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, 1st and 2nd semester, school years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. 16 hours. Coordinator, Architectural Design I (1st year), 2nd semester, school year 2010-2011. 9 ECTS. 192 hours. | (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal |
2008 - 2012 | Coordinator, Architectural Design III (3rd year), 1st and 2nd semester, school years 2008-2009 to 2012-2013. 10 ECTS/semester. 480 hours. Coordinator, Theory, History and Critics in Architecture (Doctorate in Architecture), 1st semester, school years 2009-2010 to 2011-2012. 6 ECTS. 30 hours. Assistant, Architectural Barriers. Master in Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, 1st and 2nd semester, school years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. 16 hours. Coordinator, Architectural Design I (1st year), 2nd semester, school year 2010-2011. 9 ECTS. 192 hours. | (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal |
2008 - 2009 | Design Studio | Design Studio III (5th year) (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal |
2008 - 2009 | Design Studio | Design Studio V (5th year) (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2022 - Current | Variants, the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship | |
2019 - Current | LC. Revue de recherches sur Le Corbusier | Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), Fondation Le Corbusier (Paris, France). |
2018 - 2018 | Architectural Histories | European Architectural History Network (EAHN) |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2015 - Current | Avaliador externo de teses de doutoramento para aprovacão para a defesa pública. | Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Universitat Politècnica de València Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Spain |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2013 | Positive evaluation of teaching and researcher activity for the category: Assistant Professor (PhD)
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación, Spain
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