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The Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism is rated as level 6 by CAPES, the normative body of the Ministry of Education, corresponding to a classification of international excellence. The program includes Master's and Doctoral courses, offered since 2000 and 2006, respectively. Our main objective is to stimulate reflection on and knowledge production in Architecture and Urbanism, preparing professionals for research, teaching, and practice, enhancing the capacity for critical reflection and awareness of the socio-cultural processes of architectural and urban production, combining theory and practice and the construction of theoretical and conceptual reference frameworks. The aim is also to stimulate the ability to reflect critically on Architecture and Urbanism, evaluating its potential for transforming the built environment at different levels of design, while committing to ethics, democracy, and the social transformation of Brazilian society, values which are aligned with the mission of the Presbyterian University Mackenzie.
Relevance to Researchs
Intended for teachers, researchers and professionals involved with design and intervention, management and planning of territory. the course fosters reflection on socio-cultural processes associated with architecture and cities, architectural and city planning design, within its potential and constraints, amid continued transformation of professional practices. The course investigates modern and contemporary experiences, and the respective process of framing and analyzing design problems today.
2018 - International Research Thesis Award. Urban transformation: housing density and compact city. UNAM - National Autonomous University of Mexico: Winner - the Thesis “From norm to form: contemporary urbanism and the materialization of the city‘ by Eliana de Queiroz Barbosa (advisor Nadia Somekh), defended in 2016 via agreements and double degree with the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium;
CAPES Thesis Prize 2018: the Thesis “PRESERVAÇÃO EM SISTEMA: Patrimônio Mundial entre as Américas e a Europa“(Preservation in a system: world heritage between the Americas and Europe) by Marina de Souza Rolim, defended in 2017 via agreements and double degree with the Ferrara University, Italy (advisor Carlos Guilherme Mota and Marcelo Balzani) received Honorable Mention;
ANPARQ 2018 Prize - Master modality: The dissertation Rogelio Salmona, “A espessura heterogênea de uma superfície” by Thais de Carvalho Ossani (advisor Ruth Verde Zein) received an Honorable Mention.
UNAM - International Award Tesis de Investigación 2015:
Vivienda y habitabilidad, una perspectiva regional
– Honorable Mention – Doctoral Thesis by Débora Sanches. Advisor: Angélica Alvim
