Pedro de Azambuja Varela (F91A-DFB0-11D6)

Curriculum Vitae

Pedro de Azambuja Varela

Pedro de Azambuja Varela graduates in Architecture at FAUP in 2006 with the thesis "Elliptical spaces in religious architecture: the case of Igreja dos Clérigos in Porto". In 2013 finishes the Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture organized by ISCTE/FAUP, having won a grant by Amorim Isolamentos S.A. He is invited et al. to design and build a cork pavilion, becoming the first vault made purely of this material, with no extra reinforcement. In 2014 he teaches in Arkitektskolen Aarhus the summer course HARD CO(u)R(s)E DIGITAL Corkvault, building another full-size cork vault with waterjet cut conoid voussoirs. In the same year, Pedro wins a Research Scholarship to work in the DFL (Digital Fabrication Laboratory at FAUP), developing models and approaches for the FCT funded project Robotic Technologies for a Non-Standard Architecture. Following, he is awarded a PhD Research Scholarship from FCT, initiating his studies in the PDA in FAUP. During this time, his personal research on stereotomy is accompanied by activity in the DFL, developing algorithms and programming an industrial robot for digital fabrication, resulting in various constructions such as the GFRC Corkcrete Arch. In 2015 he teaches CAD in FAUP (filling a sabbatical), and in 2016 he starts teaching ArchiCAD in the newly created Continuing Training Course. While developing a system of reconfigurable moulds for bespoke vault building, he is invited to develop the same fabrication system for a vault in Italy, where is also an invited speaker in Politecnico di Bari and Ordine Architetti BAT. In 2020 Pedro presents and defends his PhD entitled "Reconstruction of a Stereotomy - for a multi-semantic stereotomic approach", approved with distinction. This thesis explores an updated contemporary augmentation of stereotomy, creating a detailed taxonomy of current possibilities, and developing a system of reconfigurable moulds which allows for the fabrication of custom geometries in blocks for the successful building of three experimental vaults. During this time, Pedro tutored several workshops, published several papers in international conferences, international journals and is a prolific reviewer of papers for international conferences and journals. In 2023 Pedro was teaching in the Constructive Geometry course, and in 2024 teaches in the CAAD course. Currently, he is developing his research project on Constructive Stereotomy, which already allowed for a rammed earth stereotomic vault built in Istambul.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Pedro de Azambuja Varela

Citation names

Azambuja Varela, Pedro
Varela, Pedro
de Azambuja Varela, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F91A-DFB0-11D6
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7319-5019

Websites

http://pedroazambujavarela.net (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Galician	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2014/09/01 - 2020/06/09 Concluded	Programa de Doutoramento em Arquitectura (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: Património Arquitetónico Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal "Reconstrução de uma Estereotomia - para uma abordagem estereotómica multi-semântica [Reconstruction of a Stereotomy - for a multi-semantic stereotomic approach]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with praise and distinction by unanimity
2013 Concluded	Curso de Estudos Avançados em Arquitectura Digital (Pós-Graduação) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal "CorkVault - Performance based design" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19
2011/11/13 - 2012/03/06 Concluded	CCP (CAP) - Pedagogical Aptitude Certificate / Certificado de Competências Pedagógicas (Título de especialista) Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal	Approved
2009 Attended	PDA - Programa de Doutoramento em Arquitectura (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto, Portugal	n/a
2006 Concluded	Arquitectura (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal "Espaços de planta elíptica na arquitectura religiosa: o caso da Igreja dos Clérigos do Porto (18)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15
2004/09/15 - 2005/06/15 Concluded	Erasmus Programme (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Architettura, Italy	28

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/02/14 - 2028/02/13	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal
2013/12/01 - 2021/12/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/09/01 - 2016/02/01	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/01/03 - 2022/01/02	Arquitecto	Centro de Estudos da Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2021/12/30	Architect	AZVAvisuals Lda., Portugal
	AZVAvisuals Lda., Portugal
2018/01/02 - 2020/12/30	Architect	Studio Toggle Architects, Kuwait
	Studio Toggle Architects, Kuwait
2011/01/02 - 2014/08/30	Architect	Pedro de Azambuja Varela - Unipessoal, Lda., Portugal
	Pedro de Azambuja Varela - Unipessoal, Lda., Portugal
2008/10/01 - 2010/03/01	Architect	EA - Engenheiros Associados, Portugal
	EA - Engenheiros Associados, Portugal
2008/01/02 - 2008/09/15	Lead Architect	Habiserve SGPS S.A., Portugal
	Habiserve SGPS S.A., Portugal
2007/10/01 - 2007/12/20	Architect	Architecture in Formation (AiF), United States
	Architecture in Formation (AiF), United States
2006/09/15 - 2007/09/30	Architect	Henke Schreieck Architekten ZT GmbH, Austria
	Henke Schreieck Architekten ZT GmbH, Austria

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/09/01 - Current	CoVHer - Computer-based Visualization of Architectural Cultural Heritage 2021-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000031190 Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal	Ongoing
2022/12/01 - Current	R2U Technologies \| modular system 02/C05-i01/2022 Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal	Ongoing
2014/01/01 - 2015/12/01	MDFachada MDCobertura DFL-MDFACHADA Researcher Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal	Amorim Isolamentos SA Concluded
2013/07/01 - 2015/11/30	Tecnologia Robótica para um Projecto e Construção Não-Standard em Arquitectura PTDC/ATP-AQI/5124/2012 Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Pedro de Azambuja Varela. Symmetry: Art and Science \| 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress [Special Issue. {International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. 2022.
Book chapter	Castro, Alexandra; Marques, João Luís; Sousa, Jose Pedro; de Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Lopes, José. "O Porto de Vilanova. Experiências Didáticas à volta do Desenho.". In Graphic Horizons, 21-28. Springer, 2024. Published José Pedro Marques Ovelheiro Sousa; de Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Güzelci, Orkan Zeynel; Lacroix, Igor; Krezlik, Adrian; Mateus Pimenta. "Flying Earth". In Emerging voices on new architectural ecologies. Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 83-90. Porto, Portugal: Circo de Ideias, 2022. Published Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Smiling yellow storage". In Small Homes Grand Living, 162-162. Berlin, Germany: Gestalten, 2017. Published
Book review	Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design". Review of Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design (2022): 1-6. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00004-021-00571-y. Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-021-00571-y
Conference abstract	Marques, João Luís; Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Permanência(s) no tempo longo. Terreiro, Cerca e Paço Episcopal de Lamego: evolução e transformação.". Paper presented in Colóqui dedicado a José Horta Correia 'Arquitectura, Urbanismo e Património da Época Moderna, Lisboa, 2024. Published
Conference paper	Varela, Pedro; José Pedro Marques Ovelheiro Sousa. "Stereotomic BIM – a plugin for designing low carbon architecture". Paper presented in XXVII Congress of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (SIGraDI) 2023 "Accelerated Landscapes", Punta del Este, 2023. Pedro de Azambuja Varela; Igor Lacroix; Orkan Guzelci; José Pedro Sousa. "Democratizing Stereotomic Construction through AR Technologies - A reusable mold methodology to the production of customized voussoirs using HoloLens". 2022. Published • 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.225 Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP. "Drawing-to-factory process - Using freehand drawing to drive robotic assembly of brick walls". Paper presented in eCAADe 2021 - Towards a new, configurable architecture, Novi Sad, 2021. Published Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP. "Liquid Stereotomy - the Tamandua Vault". Paper presented in 38th eCAADe Conference - Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age, Berlin, 2020. Published Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP. "Digital Expansion of Stereotomy - A semantic classification". Paper presented in 37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Porto, 2019. Published de Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Sousa, José Pedro. "Reinforced, Reusable, Reconfigurable Molds for Cast Voussoirs". Paper presented in 36th eCAADe Conference, Lodz, 2018. Published • 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.771 Sousa, JP; Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Carvalho, João; Santos, Rafael; Oliveira, Manuel. "Mass-customization of Joints for Non-Standard Structures through Additive Manufacturing - The Trefoil and the TriArch projects". Paper presented in 36th eCAADe Conference - Computing for a better tomorrow, Lodz, 2018. Published Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP. "Fabricating Stereotomy - Variable moulds for cast voussoirs". Paper presented in eCAADe 2017 - 35th Annual Conference - ShoCK! - Sharing Computational Knowledge!, 2017. Published Sousa, JP; de Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Martins, Pedro. "The CorkCrete Arch". Paper presented in 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA 2017, Cambridge, MA, 2017. Published Pedro de Azambuja Varela. "Revising Stereotomy through Digital Technology". 2016. Published • https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.2.427 Sousa, JP; Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Martins, Pedro. "The CorkCrete Arch Project: The digital design and robotic fabrication of a novel building system made out of cork and glass-fibre reinforced concrete". Paper presented in 21st CAADRIA - Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Melbroune, 2016. Published De Varela, P.A.; Merritt, Tim. "Corkvault Aarhus: Exploring stereotomic design space of cork and 5-axis CNC waterjet cutting". 2016. Sousa, J.P.; Martins, P.; De Varela, P.A.. "The corkcrete arch project: The digital design and robotic fabrication of a novel building system made out of cork and glass-fibre reinforced concrete". 2016. Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP; Martins, Pedro. "Between Manual and Robotic Approaches to Brick Construction in Architecture". 2015. Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP. "Digital Flow in Stone Heritage Buildings - The Nasoni Keystone Experiment". 2015. Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Informar a curvatura de Gauss". Paper presented in XII Encontro Nacional da APROGED, Porto, 2013. Published Pedro de Azambuja Varela; Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Genetic algorithms in architecture. History and relevance". Paper presented in Future Traditions - 1st eCAADe Regional International Workshop, Porto, 2013. Published
Conference poster	Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Joana Pinho Costa. "Holographic art applications in new architectural practices". Paper presented in Practical Holography XXXVI: Displays, Materials, and Applications, 2022. 10.1117/12.2626625 Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Expanding stereotomy with digital technologies". Paper presented in Encontro CIÊNCIA '18, 2018. Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Rural Hyperbolic Paraboloid Roof". Paper presented in Nexus 2010 Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, 2010.
Edited book	Neiva, Ana; Azambuja Varela, Pedro; Ginoulhiac, Marco; Viana, Vera; Mateus, Luís; Xavier, João Pedro. Symmetry: Art and Science \| 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress - Proceedings. Portugal: International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry.. 2022. Published
Journal article	Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Stereotomic vaults - Using digital tools to customize artificial stone blocks". MD Journal 12 12 (2021): 118-127. http://mdj.materialdesign.it/index.php/mdj/issue/view/14. Open access • Published Varela, Pedro; Sousa, JP. "Variable Casting of Voussoirs for a Stereotomic Shell". Nexus Network Journal (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-018-0382-z. 10.1007/s00004-018-0382-z Pedro de Azambuja Varela; Azambuja Varela, Pedro; PAIO, A. "The Cork Vault Pavilion. A Design Research through Practice". Architectural Research through Practice: 48th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2014 (2014): 395-404. https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.767 Casanova, Maria José. "Bragança, cidade-fortaleza "setuada no estremo de portugall e Castela"". Monumentos 1 32 (2011): 24-41. http://www.monumentos.gov.pt/site/app_pagesuser/SitePageContents.aspx?id=eb4234f6-edde-4265-a057-64cd50d5ab9d. Published • Assistant staff
Website	Website of the DFL - Digital Fabrication Laboratory. 2013. https://dfl.arq.up.pt/.

Intellectual property

Licensing patent rights

2018. "House in Rio Mau, Vila do Conde". Portugal.
Assigned
2012. "Yellow Renovation, Porto". Portugal.
Assigned

Other

Invention

Reusable mould with variable geometry. This technology was invented within the PhD development. This mould is capable of accommodating an infinite number of geometries within the design space comprised of planar parallel intrados and extrados, and planar contact faces.. Construction of vaults. 2018. Azambuja Varela, Pedro.
Vault made of cork voussoirs fabricated with 3-axis CNC mill. Within a bounding box of 12.0 x 6.0 x 3.0 m it was the first structure made of cork capable of spanning spaces with no added reinforcement, resorting only to compression resistance. Funded by Amorim Isolamentos SA. Trade fair. 2016. Azambuja Varela, Pedro.
Vault made of cork voussoirs fabricated with 5-axis water jet. Within a bounding box of 6.0 x 2.5 x 2.0 m it was the first realization of its kind. Funded by the Arkitektskolen Aarhus.. Architecture Masters students Summer course. 2014. Azambuja Varela, Pedro.

Physical object

Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Stereotomic Marble Slab". 2025. Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Verona, Italia.
Azambuja Varela, Pedro. "Flying Earth three legged vault". 2024. Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlik Fakültesi

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/11/29	Stereotomic BIM – a tool for designing low carbon architecture.	XXVII SIGraDi Congress - Accelerated landscapes Centro Universitario Regional Este (Punta del Este, Uruguay)
2022/09/22	Machine Learning in Predicting Section Drawings - Case of Anatolian Seljuk Kümbets	40th eCAADe Conference - Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design KU Leuven (Gent, Belgium)
2022/09/14	Democratizing Stereotomic Construction through AR Technologies - A reusable mold methodology to the production of customized voussoirs using HoloLens	40th eCAADe Conference - Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design KU Leuven (Gent, Belgium)
2020/09/17	Liquid Stereotomy - the Tamandua Vault	38th eCAADe Conference - Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age TU Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2020/02/28	[INVITED] Architettura tra sughero e colore - Invited keynote to present own architectural production	RICERCA, SPERIMENTAZIONE E PROGETTO Ordini degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori della provincia Barletta-Andria-Trani (Trani, Italy)
2020/02/27	[INVITED] A Escola do Porto	Architettura rurale e architettura sostenibile Liceo artistico Federico II - Corato (Corato, Italy)
2019/09/11	Digital Expansion of Stereotomy - A semantic classification	37th eCAADe and 23rd SIGraDi Conference - Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/09/20	Reinforced, Reusable, Reconfigurable Molds for Cast Voussoirs	36th eCAADe Conference - Computing for a better tomorrow Lodz University of Technology (Lodz, Poland)
2017/09/20	Fabricating Stereotomy - Variable moulds for cast voussoirs	eCAADe 2017 - 35th Annual Conference - ShoCK! - Sharing Computational Knowledge! Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy)
2015/04/30	[INVITED] Repensar a Estereotomia	DIGITAL DARQ - Encontros entre o Passado e o Futuro da Arquitetura Departamento de Arquitectura da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/12/10	The Cork Vault Pavilion. A Design Research through Practice	Architectural Research through Practice: 48th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2014 University of Genoa (Genova, Italy)
2013/05/13	[INVITED] Genetic Algorithms in architecture. History and relevance	ARQUIBIO 2013 Departamento de Arquitectura da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2013/05/01	Genetic Algorithms in architecture. History and relevance	Future Traditions - 1st eCAADe Regional International Workshop Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2013/04/06	Informar a curvatura de Gauss	XII Encontro Nacional da APROGED Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/28 - Current	O Capítulo Incompleto de Tomar: Ferramentas Digitais ao Serviço da Reconstituição Arquitetónica da Abóbada Desaparecida. Co-supervisor	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2024/01/31 - Current	Modelação 3D de um projeto abandonado. O Santuário de São Torcato a partir dos desenhos de Luís Inácio Barros Lima Supervisor	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2024/01/31 - Current	Neuroarquitetura. Experienciar e reconhecer a cinestesia humana nos espaços Supervisor	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2023/05/02 - Current	Espetáculos de Parametrização: Parametrização acústica em espaços de Espetáculo Supervisor	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2023/02/08 - Current	Fotogrametria e Arquitetura Supervisor	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2022/05/02 - 2033/11/09	Arquitetura Fotorrealista: A imagem de arquitetura como projeto Supervisor	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2023/05/24 - 2024/05/21	Projectar para o Mundo Virtual. Uma Experiência para o Metaverso Supervisor	Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/04/14 - 2023/04/14	IA? - Workshop sobre inteligência artificial (2023/04/14 - 2023/04/14) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2020/07/11 - 2022/07/16	Organising Committee of the conference: 2022 Symmetry: Art and Science \| 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress (2021/07/11 - 2022/07/16) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2019/11/21 - 2019/11/24	Architecture 4.0 Square by DFL at Concreta 2019 (2019/11/21 - 2019/11/24) Exhibition (Co-organisor)	Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal
2018/01/01 - 2019/09/13	The 37th eCAADe Conference and the XXIII SIGraDi Conference (Joint Event) - Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution - Organizing Committee (2019/09/09 - 2019/09/13) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2019/05/16 - 2019/05/18	Technology exhibition at 360 TECH INDUSTRY – International Trade Fair of Industry 4.0, Robotics, Automation and Composites (2019/05/16 - 2019/05/18) Exhibition (Co-organisor)	Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2015/10/03	Session chair in APROGED's III International Conference, "Trends on Graphic Thinking" (2015/10/01 - 2015/10/03) Conference (Other)	Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/07/25 - 2015/07/25	Blender - Full day workshop as an introduction to Blender as a tool for vizualization, with a prepared template (2015/07/25 - 2015/07/25) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Espaço2D, Portugal
2014/05/15 - 2014/05/15	Geometry as a language of design and materialization - Four hour workshop on generative design with Grasshopper and fabrication of bi-dimensional voussoirs in cork for catenary arches constructions. (2014/05/15 - 2014/05/15) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal
2014/02/15 - 2014/02/15	WorkYourFolio - Workshop on digital tools for architectural portfolio creation and management (2014/02/15 - 2014/02/15) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2013/05/25 - 2013/05/25	Open Source Visualization - Workshop on using Blender 3D for architectural visualization (2013/05/25 - 2013/05/25) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Espaço2D, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2013/04/04	Organising committee of the 1st eCAADe Regional International Meeting “Future Traditions 2013” (2013/04/04 - 2013/04/04) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2006/10/24 - 2006/10/28	Organization of exhibition [porto+arquitectura] featuring photographic and architecture works of final year students of architecture within the CONCRETA fair at Exponor. (2006/10/24 - 2006/10/28) Exhibition (President of the Organising Committee)	Exponor - Porto International Fair, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2014/09/19 - 2014/09/21	Participation in Mini Maker Faire – Lisbon with project “Robotic Technologies for a Non-Standard Design and Construction in Architecture” Exhibition	Mini Maker Faire - Lisbon Pavilhão do Conhecimento-Centro Ciência Viva, Portugal Ciência Viva, Portugal
2010/03/10 - 2010/03/10	Metamorphose - Workshop by Rinus Roelofs on using Rhino3D and Grasshopper as means for mathematical and geometrical art Workshop	Metamorphose Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2009/04/06 - 2009/04/10	Out of the Box - Workshop organized by José Pedro Sousa as an introduction on using Rhino3D for digital fabrication Workshop	Out of the Box Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2020/12/15	Memória (do) Martyrium de Dom Gonçalo da Silveira O Monóptero de Penas Róias, Mogadouro (Thesis) Main arguer	Catarina Lopes Capitão (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2022/05/06 - Current	ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (1556-4673)	Association for Computing Machinery
2023/01/15 - 2033/02/15	Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management (1471-4175)	Emerald Publishing

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2023/06/16 - 2023/09/29	Comissão CERT – Concursos Especiais e Regimes de Transferências – 2023.2024 Member	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/08/27 - 2024/10/01	CAADRIA 2025 - ¿Architectural Informatics	Tokyo
2023/07/05 - 2023/07/07	CAAD Futures 2023	TU Delft
2022/11/07 - 2022/11/11	International Scientific Committee for the XXVI SIG~aDi 2022	Lima
2022/09/14 - 2022/09/16	eCAADe 2022 - Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design	Leuven
2022/01/22 - 2022/05/27	2022 Symmetry: Art and Science \| 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura
2022/01/03 - 2022/02/01	40th eCAADe Conference - Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design	Gent
2021/07/16 - 2021/07/18	CAAD futures 2021 - University of Southern California	University of Southern California
2020/01/01 - 2020/12/01	25th International CAADRIA Conference, "Anthropocene Design in the Age of Humans"	Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University Bangkok
2019/01 - 2019/12/01	24th International CAADRIA Conference, "Intelligent & Informed"	Faculty of Architecture & Design, Victoria University of Wellington
2017/01/01 - 2017/12/01	22nd International CAADRIA Conference, "Protocols, Flows and Glitches"	Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou
2017/01/01 - 2017/12/01	Geometrias’17 International Conference. "Thinking, Drawing, Modelling"	Departamento de Arquitectura da Universidade de Coimbra
2016/01/01 - 2016/12/01	21st International CAADRIA Conference, "Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing", 30 March - 2 April, 2016, to be held at The University of Melbourne, Australia	Melbourne

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/09/16 - 2024/09/16	Aula sobre técnicas digitais para levantamento em arquitectura e introdução ao GIS para análise gepgráfica	História e Ucronia (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura, Portugal
2024/02/05 - 2024/07/31	Geometria Construtiva 2	Geometria Construtiva 2 (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2024/07/17 - 2024/07/21	Flying Earth - The 5-day workshop organized by ArfLab, led by Dr. Pedro de Azambuja Varela from the Digital Fabrication Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP-DFL); and attended by Prof. Dr. Bilge Isik, Assoc. Dr. Ömer Dabanli, Serafettin Derin, Yunus Can and Kadir Sahin as invited speakers, aims to perform computational modeling of stereotomic structures in the Rhino Grasshopper environment and to physically produce these structures using compressed soil blocks to be produced during the workshop.		Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Mimarlik Fakültesi, Turkey
2024/04/08 - 2024/04/24	Mais do que Casas: Liberdade, Pluralidade, Prospetiva	Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2024/02/02	Geometria Construtiva 1	Geometria Construtiva 1 (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2023/01/04 - 2023/01/04	Práticas digitais em projecto e investigação de arquitectura	Cultura Digital (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2022/11/15 - 2022/11/15	Geometria Construtiva - Aula sobre fotogrametria e análise de nuvens de pontos para aferição de rigor de modelos produzidos manualmente comparados com modelo digital.	MIArq (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2022/10/14 - 2022/10/14	Digital tools for surveying - Photographic perspective correction; Spherical photo projection; Photogrammetry. "Complementary session of HAP-OT dedicated to survey strategies, within the scope of the fieldwork in progress."	História da Arquitectura Portuguesa (Mestrado integrado) (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2021/03/04 - 2021/03/04	Class on surface subdivision for funicular structures - Constructive Geometry	Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2021/03/01	Tutorial support in class - History of Portuguese Architecture	Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2021/02/15	Tutorial support in class - History of Portuguese Architecture	Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2020/12/01 - 2021/01/15	BIM implementation in context - consultancy and teaching ArchiCAD in the architecture office Paula Santos Arquitectura	ArchiCAD as BIM tool (Outros)	Paula Santos \| Arquitectura, Portugal
2018/03/26 - 2019/11/04	Curso de Formação em ArchiCAD	Curso de Formação em ArchiCAD (Outros)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2019/10/23 - 2019/10/23	Digital tools for surveying. "Complementary session of HAP-OT dedicated to survey strategies, within the scope of the fieldwork in progress."	História da Arquitectura Portuguesa (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2017/06/30 - 2018/07/14	Grasshopper - Three dimensional interactive visualization digital methods applied to the Teaching of Descriptive Geometry. Two editions of 18 hours each year.	Using Grasshopper as a visualization tool for the Teaching of Descriptive Geometry (Diploma de especialização)	APROGED - Associação portuguesa dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho, Portugal
2016/11/15 - 2016/11/15	Métodos de Investigação em Design e Desenvolvimento do Produto	Mestrado em Design e Desenvolvimento de Produto (Mestrado)	Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Design, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/02/01	Desenho Assistido por Computador	Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2016/01/25 - 2016/01/29	Workshop Bau - Digital Tools And Robotics In Architecture	WORKSHOP BAU – DIGITAL TOOLS AND ROBOTICS IN ARCHITECTURE (Outros)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal
2014/11/28 - 2014/11/28	Genetic Algorithms - Within the CEAAD, a class of Parametric and Algorithmic Design dedicated to the history and mechanics of genetic algorithms and with a simples application in Grasshopper.	CEAAD - Curso de Estudos Avançados em Arquitectura Digital (Pós-Graduação)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal
2014/06/16 - 2014/06/27	Corkvault - Course on digital design and CNC waterjet fabrication of cork blocks for building a vault	HARD CO(u)R(s)E DIGITAL	Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark
2013/07/08 - 2013/07/12	International Summer School course on Social Design and Fabrication: STTF \| Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures – from collaborative design to digital fabrication	STTF \| Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures – from collaborative design to digital fabrication (Outros)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/02/11 - 2013/02/12	Two classes entitled to introduce the Grasshopper visual programming language to 3rd year architecture course students	Design Studio - Grasshopper (Mestrado integrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal
2011/12/11 - 2012/05/01	BIM implementation in architecture office using ArchiCAD - 50 hours	ArchiCAD course (Outros)	J. Bragança, M. Marqees, Arquitectos Lda., Portugal
2012/04/28 - 2012/04/29	ArchiCAD intensive course	Intensive ArchiCAD course (Outros)	Espaço2D, Portugal
2011/11/22 - 2011/11/22	Geometria Construtiva - Apoio aos trabalhos sobre fotogrametria e análise de nuvens de pontos para aferição de rigor de modelos produzidos manualmente comparados com modelo digital.	MIArq (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2018/06/26	Publication in italian design web magazine Domus of architectural design of house in Rio Mau. "Inspired by local architecture, architect Pedro de Azambuja turns a stable into a single-family house."	Domus Web
2018/05/09	Publication in portuguese newspaper P3 of architectural design of house in Rio Mau. "Fazer algo simples, directo, óbvio, na linha do que seria uma habitação rural, mas com o conforto de uma casa contemporânea":	P3 - cultural edition of newspaper Público
2014/11/07	Publication on italian magazine web Domus of Cork vault Aarhus. "Conceived by Pedro de Azambuja Varela and Tim Merritt, and built in a 2-week course in Aarhus, CorkVault uses three-dimensional stereotomic blocks of cork for creating a vault."	Domus Web
2013/12/04	Publication on italian magazine web Domus of Cork vault Aarhus. "Three Portuguese architects built a pavilion to demonstrate the properties of cork as building material at Concreta 2013, a biennial building fair in Porto."	Domus Web
2012/04/01	Publication in the italian monthly magazine DCASA of the architecture project "Yellow Renovation" co-authored with Renata Pinho. "In Portogallo, un appartamento banale diventa super organizzato. Complice una parete gialla."	DCASA - GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A.
2012/04/01	Publication in the Hong Kong monthly magazine PERSPECTIVE of the architecture project "Yellow Renovation" co-authored with Renata Pinho. "Hello, yellow"	PERSPECTIVE Architecture_Interiors_Design
2012/02/01	Publication in the German bi-monthly magazine AIT of the architecture project "Yellow Renovation" co-authored with Renata Pinho. "YELLOW - Sanierung eines apartments in Porto von Pedro Varela in Renata Pinho"	AIT
2012/01/27	Publication in the weekly newspaper Sol of the architecture project "Yellow Renovation" co-authored with Renata Pinho. "Os arquitectos Pedro Varela e Renata Pinho explicam como reabilitaram um imóvel e lhe deram um nova funcionalidade"	Semanário Sol
2011/12/01	Publication in the portuguese bi-monthly magazine arquitectura & construção of the architecture project "Yellow Renovation" co-authored with Renata Pinho. "casa amarela"	arquitectura & construção

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/04/01 - 2023/05/23	Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management	Emerald Publishing
2022/09/21 - 2022/09/21	Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (1556-4673)	ACM
2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31	Thinking, Drawing, Modelling (2194-1009)	Springer

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2021/11/17 - 2021/11/17	Midterm Review of MEGAVIZ design studio at i.sd - Structure and Design, University Innsbruck	Universität Innsbruck, Austria
2010/06/01 - 2011/06/30	Product Design course (12th grade) jury member of Final Work at Escola Artística Soares dos Reis	Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2019	"House in Mishref" wins the MEA Residential Project of the Year Middle East Architect Awards, United Arab Emirates
2018	"Bean to Bar" wins Interior Design of the Year Commercial Interior Design, United Arab Emirates

Other distinction

2022	Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual - 5.ª Edição 2022.07367.CEECIND Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal
2020	PhD approved with distinction Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2013	PhD Studentship (SFRH/BD/93438/2013) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal
2012	Research Fellow - FCT Project "Robotic Technologies for a Non Standard Architecture" Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal