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Professor PhD. Abílio da Silva Guerra Neto
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Abílio da Silva Guerra Neto
Abilio Guerra is a qualified architect (FAU PUC-Campinas), holds a Master´s and Doctorate in History from IFCH Unicamp, and is an Adjunct Professor at FAU Mackenzie (Undergraduate and Graduate levels). With Silvana Romano Santos, he is the editor of Romano Guerra Editora and Portal Vitruvius (www.vitruvius.com.br), where he heads the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Arquitextos (São Paulo, ISSN 1809-6298). Together with the architect and artist Marco do Valle, he exhibited the art installation City, and its double, at the events Art / City 2- The city and its flows, promoted by the Secretary of State for Culture and curated by Nelson Brissac (São Paulo, 1994). He was coordinator, with Silvana Romano, Paul Meurs and Luis Espallargas Gimenez, of the Urban Rivers Workshop, part of the Netherlands Today event, promoted by the Netherlands Consulate (São Paulo, 2003). As the creator of special rooms and coordinator for the Debate Forum, Abilio has attended the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the São Paulo Architecture Biennial - BIA, sponsored by the São Paulo Biennial Foundation / Institute of Architects of Brazil (São Paulo, 1997, 1999, 2003). As a Brazilian juror or delegate, he participated in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th editions of the Ibero-American Biennial (Montevideo, 2006; Lisbon, 2008; Medellin, 2010; Cadiz, 2012). He was the Brazilian organizer of the 10th edition of the International Forum of Architecture (Quito, Ecuador, 2009) and curator of the exhibition Brazilian architecture: living in the forest (Tomie Ohtake Institute, 2010, Cica Awards 2011, category catalog of the exhibition) and the three-show series Contact Territory (with Marta Bogéa, Sesc Pompeia, 2014). Abilio has published numerous articles in Brazilian and foreign journals, has authored the books Architecture and Nature (Cica Awards 2017) and Primitivism in Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade and Raul Bopp, Origin and conformation in the Brazilian intellectual universe (Romano Guerra, 2010), co-author of the book Rino Levi architecture and city (with Renato Anelli and Nelson Kon, Romano Guerra, 2001, IAB-SP 2002 Award). Organizer of several publications, among them the two volumes of the Fundamental Texts on the History of Modern Brazilian Architecture (Romano Guerra, 2010) and João Kon, architect (Romano Guerra, 2016, finalist of the 2017 Jabuti Prize), editor of the books Ministry of Education and Health Urban Icon of Brazilian Modernity (Cica Special Prize of the Jury 2015, Jabuti Award 2014, Anparq Award 2014, IAB-RJ 2013 Award), Architecture: an experience in healthcare (Jabuti Award 2013), Forty years of drawing board (Jabuti Award 2011 finalist), Lina Bo Bardi, subtle substances of architecture (IAB-SP 2006 Award, finalist Jabuti 2006 Award, finalist of RIBA International Book Awards 2007). In 2003, Abilio won the Urbanity Award of the Institute of Architects of Brazil: Department Rio de Janeiro and in 2009 won the Architect of the Year Award from the National Federation of Architects and Urbanists.

Professor PhD. Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima
Ana Gabriela qualified as an Architect and Urban Planner from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (1994), holds a Master's degree in Urban Environmental Structures from the Graduate Program of the same institution (1999), a PhD from the Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo (2004) and has undertaken doctoral studies at the School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire, England (2009). She is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where she is Permanent Faculty Member of the Graduate Program. Between 2009 and 2016, she was a visiting researcher at the School of Creative Arts of the University of Hertfordshire. Between 2011 and 2014, she led the research project Feminine and Plural: Paths and Projects of Architects, Urbanists and Designers, which led to the creation of a site of the same name with support from the FAPESP: São Paulo State Research Support Foundation and Mack Research: Mackenzie Research Fund. Between 2014 and 2019 she worked, alongside Luz Paz Agras and Emma Lopes Bahut, as editor of the journal Boletín Académico, Journal of Research and Contemporary Architecture, published by the Superior Technical School of the University of Coruña. Since 2016, she has been working as thematic editor of the journal Cadernos de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, published by the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, under the editorship of Maria Isabel Villac, and also involving thematic editors Maria Augusta Justi Pisani.
Ana coordinates, with Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb, the Research Project: City, Gender and Childhood, through a Technical Cooperation Agreement between Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Brasiliana Institute, with funding from the Bernard Van Leer Dutch Foundation. She is pat of the research project: Theoretical discussion and historical construction. The Architectural Heritage of Modernity in Chile and Brazil, coordinated by Ruth Verde Zein with the support of the National Commission for Technological Scientific Research. Ana is author of the title Women Architects and Architectures in Latin America of the 20th Century (Altamira Editorial, 2013), besides other books, book chapters and articles in national and international journals.
Her research topics and subjects supervised include: School Architecture, Architecture and Urbanism Teaching, History of Women in Architecture, History of Architecture in Latin America, History and Theory of Contemporary Architecture, Design Processes in Architecture, Urbanism and Design.

Professor PhD. Célia Regina Moretti Meirelles
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Célia Regina Moretti Meirelles
Célia is a Civil Engineer graduated from the State University of Maringá (1984) with a Master´s in Civil Engineering from the University of São Paulo (1993) and a PhD in Civil Engineering also from the University of São Paulo (1998). She was a teacher from 1997 on the undergraduate degree in Architecture and Urbanism at São Marcos University up to 2007 and a Full Professor at Paulista University from 2001 to 2004. She is currently Assistant Professor I at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She has been teaching and conducting research with an emphasis on Architecture Technology and Urbanism since 1997, covering topics such as: construction processes, sustainability, structure in architecture design, and innovative construction processes. She was a member of the teaching team on the graduate stricto-sensu course in Architecture and Urbanism - PPGAU FAU Mackenzie since 2009 where, in 2019, she became a permanent faculty member. Célia heads the research group Constructive Systems in Contemporary Architecture. She has presented a research project on Amazonian riverside communities, way of life, constructive techniques and culture, and is part of a research network with the group Iteração of the Federal University of Amazonas, together with an international network. She has been an appraiser with FAPESP on PIPE Innovative Research in Small Business programs.

Professor PhD. Igor Guatelli
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Igor Guatelli
Igor is an adjunct undergraduate research professor and Professor on the PPGAU at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. He is an Associate Researcher at the GERPHAU-ENSA Laboratory Paris-La Villette and Université Paris 8 and author of the book “Arquitetura dos entre-lugares - sobre a importância do trabalho conceitual“ (Architecture of the in-between places - on the importance of conceptual work), Senac, 2012. Igor heads the research group City and Architecture and Philosophy, with research funded by MSH-Paris Nord and Mackenzie Research Fund. He graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (1991), holds a Master´s in Architecture and Urbanism from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (1999), a PhD in French Modern Philosophy [area of concentration: French Language and Literature] with the theme French Architecture and Poststructuralism - FFLCH-USP (2005), and a postdoctoral degree (2011-2012) from the Philosophy and Urbanism Laboratory GERPHAU ENSA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure D´Architecture) Paris - La Villette, "3rd cycle" laboratory affiliated to the Université Paris VIII. Igor also works as an Ad-Hoc FAPESP Consultant. He holds knowledge on the areas of theories of contemporary architecture and urbanism, new processes of urban territorialization, as well as building design. He works mainly on the following areas: deconstruction, poststructuralist philosophy, urban condensers, new territorialization processes

Professor PhD. Maria Isabel Villac
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Maria Isabel Villac
Maria Isabel has a Degree in Architecture and Urbanism (1977) and specialization in Higher Education Didactics (1991) from Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She was a Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the State University of Londrina from 1986 to 2002. She holds a Doctorate in Theory and History of Architecture from the Politecnica Universitat de Catalunya (2002), with the thesis "La Construcción de La Mirada. Naturaleza, Ciudad and Speech on the Architecture of Paulo Archias Mendes da Rocha ", and a CAPES Scholarship. Maria is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Università IUAV di Venezia (2014), with support from FAPESP. Since 2002, she has been a Professor on the undergraduate degree course at the School of Architecture and, since 2006, she has been a Researcher and Professor on the Postgraduate Degree program in Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She compiled the books: Mendes da Rocha, Catalogs of Contemporary Architecture, Spanish / English version by Publisher Gustavo Gili, Barcelona; Portuguese version by Editora Blau - Lisbon, São Paulo, 1996; Paulo Mendes da Rocha. America, City and Nature. Editora Estação Liberdade - São Paulo, 2012. Maria was Editor of PPGAU's journal Cadernos de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 2016-2019 and is Co-director of the Architects Collection of Editora Estação Liberdade. She has been a member of the APCA - Paulista Association of Art Critics -, Architecture group, since 2010. She has professional experience in Architecture and Urban Design and has heads the Research Group Project Theory: Culture-Society, operating since 2011. (dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/7884404833880601). As a researcher, she investigates mainly the following subjects: architecture and city, architecture, city and culture, architecture and citizenship, art and architecture, teaching of architecture and city, relationship theory and design, public space and the public use of space.

Professor PhD. Maria Augusta Justi Pisani
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Maria Augusta Justi Pisani
Maria Augusta Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from Farias Brito School of Architecture and Urbanism (1979), holds a Degree in Teacher Training and in Civil Construction from Paulista State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1983) and is a qualified specialist in Historical Heritage (1981) and restoration works (1982) at the FAUUSP - School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. She holds a Master's degree, MA (1991) and PhD (1998) in Civil and Urban Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. Maria Augusta is an approved Professor on a Federal Public admissions process for the disciplines of Architectural Design at CEFET SP - Federal Center for Technological Education of São Paulo, where she taught from 1985 to 2005. She held the position of Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at FAU Belas Artes de São Paulo and Research Center Coordinator from 1986 to 2009. Maria Augusta is currently a Full-time Professor at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, teaches with TFG – Final Year Undergraduate Projects at the FAU Mackenzie, Production and Management of Social Housing in Brazil, Environment and Sustainability at the Architecture and Urbanism Project and Project Laboratory for the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program. She coordinated the Interinstitutional Master´s in Architecture and Urbanism - MINTER between Mackenzie University and the University of Fortaleza - UNIFOR. Since 2016, she has been working as thematic editor of the journal Cadernos de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, published by the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Maria Augusta has experience in Architecture and Urbanism, focusing on Architecture and Urbanism Design, working in the following areas: sustainable architecture and urbanism, urban risk areas, social housing in Brazil, architectural design, architecture and urbanism teaching and research, and architecture and the environment.
She heads the FAU Mackenzie Research Architecture and Construction Group.

Professor PhD. Rafael Antônio Cunha Perrone
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Rafael Antônio Cunha Perrone
Rafael Antônio holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (1973), a Master´s in Public Administration and Urban Planning from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation - SP (1984), a PhD (1993) and Full Professorship (2008) in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo, and Adjunct Professor at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. He is also a consultant to the FAPESP - São Paulo State Research Support Foundation, a collaborator of CAPES - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, and was a board member of the IAB - Institute of Architects of Brazil. In addition to his academic experience, he works professionally running projects in the area of architecture. He has received many project awards from the Brazilian Institute of Architects (1983,1987,1989, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006). In 1999 he received the Carlos Barjas Milan Prize from the IAB-SP; in 2003 the Votorantim Prize of the V International Biennial of Architecture of São Paulo, and in 2006, the Jury Prize of the XXX Latin American Biennial of Architecture. In 2019, he received an Honorable Mention in Best Practices in Architectural Teaching Award from CAU-SP (São Paulo -Architects and Urbanists Council). He has published articles and projects in national and international journals. He was a member of juries for the MOVESP Prize, and the Design Award of the Brazilian House Museum and the IAB-SP Award (1987). He published the books Design Fundamentals: Architecture and Urbanism in both the 2014 edition with reissue in 2016, and the book Os croquis e os processos de projeto de arquitetura (Sketches and processes of architectural design) in 2018.

Professor PhD. Ruth Verde Zein
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Ruth Verde Zein
Ruth graduated as an Architect and Urbanist (1977) from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo; holds a Master´s, MA (1999), a PhD (2005) in Theory, History and Critique of Architecture from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and a Postdoctoral qualification (2008) from the FAU-USP. She received the CAPES Award for Theses in the area of Architecture and Urbanism (2006). She is currently a Full-Time Research Professor (PPI) at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Ruth has experience in Architecture and Urbanism, focusing on architectural design and research, working on the following subject areas: Brazilian architecture, Latin American architecture, modern architecture, contemporary architecture, architectural critique, architectural theory and architecture teaching. She is co-author or author of several articles and books, including "Brasil: Arquiteturas após 1950” (Brazil: Architectures after 1950) with M.A.J.Bastos (2010, "Brutalist Connections: What they stand for" (2014), and "Critical Readings" (2019).

Professor PhD. Valter Luis Caldana Junior
Modern and Contemporary Architecture: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Valter Luis Caldana Junior
VALTER CALDANA graduated as an Architect and Urbanist from FAUUSP – the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (1985), where he obtained the title of Master´s in Urban and Regional Planning (1994) and a Doctorate in Architectural Design (2005). He has been Associate Professor of Design at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie Presbyterian University of São Paulo since 1994, where he is a full member of its Congregation and Professor on the undergraduate degree in Architecture and Urbanism (AU) as well as a collaborating Professor in the Stricto sensu program (grade 6/7 CAPES). At the same School he has held positions as Dean/Director (2009-2016), Deputy Director (2000-2009), Coordinator of the Graduate Course in Architecture and Urbanism (2005/2009) and Coordinator of TFG - Final Year Projects (1999/2005). Valter Luis coordinated the review of his pedagogical project in AU (2006/2008/2014) and Design (2015). He is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the University of Sassari in Alghero, Italy, a position he had previously held in 2016/2017. Also Valter was also Visiting Professor at the Paris Institute of Urbanism, France (2012) and at the National School of Architecture, City and Territory of Marne la Valée - France (2015/2016) and the Polytechnic Institute of Marche in Ancona, Italy (2018). Still in the field of architectural teaching, he was a teacher at the University of Guarulhos / UnG (1986/88) and FAAC Bauru campus of the Paulista State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho / UNESP (1988/93). He is a Researcher in the Architecture and Construction Group and coordinator of the Project and Public Policies Laboratory LPP, both acknowledged by CNPq, where he conducts research in the areas of project methodology, housing, mobility, precarious urbanization and public policies. He sits on the Municipal Council of Urban Policy of the City of São Paulo, representing Universities and Research Institutes. He is a founding member and Director of AEAULP - Academy of Portuguese-speaking Architecture and Urbanism Schools based in Lisbon - Portugal, and board member of the Institute Cidade em Movimento - Brazil section. He has worked at IAB / SP (1988/2006), where he was a Counselor and Vice President. Also, he was Director of CREA / SP (1992/2003) and Alternate Member of CAU / SP (2012/2016). In addition, Valter was a former member of the Board of Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco, Firenze-Italy (2008/2016). He was a consultant architect and member of the judging committee of several national and international Architecture and Urbanism competitions and awards, as well as a member of the Jury of the VIII International Biennial of Architecture of São Paulo (2009). He was also Curator of the IX International Biennial of Architecture of São Paulo (2011) under the theme "Architecture for all, building citizenship". He works at Espaço & Tempo Arquitetura SSL in residential, commercial, industrial and institutional projects. He is author of articles, chapters and prefaces, and co-author of the book Urban Projects in SP: opportunities, experiences and instruments, with Larissa Campagner. Valter maintains the blog (www.debatendo.com.br) and edits the magazine aedificandi (www.aedificandi.com.br)

Professor PhD. Angélica A. Tanus Benatti Alvim
Modern and Contemporary Urbanism: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Angélica A. Tanus Benatti Alvim
Angélica is an Architect and Urbanist (School of Fine Arts of São Paulo, 1986), holds a Master´s and Doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism (University of São Paulo - FAU / USP, 1996; 2003) and has been Full Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie Presbyterian University since 1991. She is a teacher on the undergraduate degree in Architecture and Urbanism (since 1991) and a permanent Professor of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism (since 2005). She is a full member of CNPq on the Advisory Committee – Architecture and Urbanism, Demography, Human and Regional Geography, Physical Geography, Urban Planning and Tourism (CA-SA) (sub area Architecture and Urbanism) with tenure from 01/07/2024 to 30/06/2027. Angélica was formerly Director of FAU Mackenzie (2016 – 2023); General Coordinator of Graduate Stricto Sensu Program of Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2013-2016). Angélica was formerly a Stricto Sensu General Graduate Coordinator at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2013-2016), Coordinator of the FAU-Mackenzie Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism (2010-2013) and FAU Research Coordinator of Mackenzie (2008-2010). She was President of the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (ANPARQ) - 2015/2016 and Director of ANPARQ (2014-2015 tenure). She was member of the Fisscal Board (2017-2018 tenure) and chaired the ANPARQ awards 2020.She has published many articles in national and international journals and has organized the books Alvim e Castro. Avaliação de Políticas Urbanas: contexto e perspectivas. (Editoras Mackpesquisa e Romano Guerra, 2010); Alvim, Abascal e Abrunhosa. Arquitetura Mackenzie 100 anos. FAU Mackenzie 70 anos.Tradição e Pioneirismo (2017, Editora Mackenzie e CAU/SP); Allegri et all. Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories. Editora CRC Press group Francis Taylor; ALVIM, A.; RUBIO, V. M. (Org.) . Sustentabilidade em projetos para urbanização de assentamentos precários no Brasil. Contexto, dimensões e perspectivas. 1. ed. Barueri: Manole, 2022. É líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Urbanismo Contemporâneo: redes, sistemas e processos. In addition, she heads the Contemporary Urban Research Group: networks, systems and processes. She is a CNPq Level 1 D Research Productivity Fellow. Angélica is engaged in the area of urbanism and the environment, urban and environmental sustainability, urban design, mobility and the environment.

Professor PhD. Candido Malta Campos Neto
Modern and Contemporary Urbanism: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Candido Malta Campos Neto
Candido holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (1986) and also a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (1999), with a thesis that garnered an award from ANPUR and led to the book “Os Rumos da Cidade: Urbanismo e Modernização em São Paulo” (Directions of the City: Urbanism and Modernization in São Paulo) (São Paulo: Senac, 2002), nominated for the Jabuti Award and received an award from the IHGSP. He was co-organizer and co-author of A Cidade que Não Pode Parar: Planos Urbanísticos de São Paulo no Século XX (The City that Can't Stop: Urban Plans of São Paulo in the Twentieth Century) (Sao Paulo: Mackpesquisa, 2002; Mackenzie Publisher / Mackpesquisa, 2008), Centro Vivo (São Paulo: Official Press, 2004), Metrópole em Trânsito: Percursos Urbanos e Culturais (Metropolis in Transit: Urban and Cultural Routes) (São Paulo: Senac, 2004) and Palacete Santa Helena: Um Pioneiro da Modernidade em São Paulo (Palacete Santa Helena: A Pioneer of Modernity in São Paulo) (São Paulo: Senac, 2006), these last two titles were also nominated for the Jabuti Award, among other publications, such as chapters in the books L'Aventure des mots de la ville (2010, translated in 2014) and Urbanismo de Colina: Uma Tradição Luso-Brasileira (Hill Urbanism: A Luso-Brazilian Tradition) (2012). He has published in the journals Gávea, Arquitextos, Urbe and Estudos Avançados, among others. Candido has participated in and led interinstitutional and international research projects. He undertook postdoctoral internships at New York University (2007-2011) and the Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris (2013-2015). Since 2000, he has been Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where he has supervised 20 Master's dissertations and three Doctoral theses. He has been a CNPq productivity fellow since 2006. His main themes of interest relate to the history of the city and urbanism, the history of architecture, the city of São Paulo and urban planning.

Professor PhD. Carlos Leite de Souza
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Professor PhD. Carlos Leite de Souza
After studying Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ; 1983-86), he obtained a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the School of Fine Arts of São Paulo (1991), Master´s and Doctorate degrees in Urban Environmental Structures from the University of São Paulo (1997 and 2002) and undertook Postdoctoral studies in Urban Economic Sustainable Development at the Polytechnic University of California (CalPoly, 2004), where he was Visiting Professor. Carlos is Associate Professor II and Full-Time Research Professor (PPI), at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, Mackenzie Presbyterian University (undergraduate course and permanent postgraduate member). In 2011, he was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development of Columbia University and Parsons, NY, and in 2012 was Visiting Scholar at the College of Environmental Design of UC Berkeley. Also, he was Visiting Professor at the Dom Cabral Foundation (Global Cities) and researcher at the Urban Age Global Cities project (London School of Economics / Mackenzie U., 2009).
Carlos sat on the City Council, Rio de Janeiro City Hall and was Director of São Paulo Urbanismo of São Paulo City Hall in 2017. He has a degree at Harvard University in training public managers in early childhood development (Urbanism and Early Childhood project, 2017) and holds courses at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy on Urban Financing Instruments and Land Use Mobilization (2017/8). He is the author of the book "Cidades Sustentáveis, Cidades Inteligentes" (Sustainable Cities, Smart Cities) (Bookman, 2012; Jabuti Award finalist). He is consultant for multilateral (IADB, CAF, UNESCO), national and international institutions, the public and private sectors, and for NGOs.
In addition, Carlos is an ad hoc advisor to FAPESP. and member of the Urban Mobility Commission of CAU.sp. Carlos is a Visiting Researcher at the Global Cities Program and a member of the Health and Urban Space Research Group, both at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA-USP). In 2018, he joined the Uninove Postgraduate Program in Smart and Sustainable Cities as a Collaborating Professor. He is Director of Stuchi & Leite Projects and Consulting, with expertise in Sustainable Urban Development, Urban Projects, Urban Instruments, Strategic Plans, Master Plans, structuring of urban PPPs, UOCs and Urban Intervention Projects (UIPs). Carlos coordinates the Research Project on Innovative Urban Instruments and Social Urbanism. He is editor and author of three chapters of the new book "Social Urbanism in Latin America. Instruments of Planning and Financing" (Springer Nature, 2019).

Professor PhD. Denise Antonucci
Modern and Contemporary Urbanism: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Denise Antonucci
Denise graduated from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo University (1975), holds a Master’s degree (1997) and a PhD (2006) in Architecture and Urbanism, with area of concentration of Urban Environmental Structures, from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo University.
She is currently an Adjunct Professor (I) at the Mackenzie Presbyterian Institute, and Professor / Researcher at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Denise is an Invited Professor at the PPGAU - Mackenzie. She is coordinator of the research group: Design, production and management of social housing in Brazil and is also a member of the research groups: Contemporary Urbanism: networks, systems and processes (Mackenzie) and Production of Contemporary Space: Policies, Plans and Urban Projects (NAPPLAC FAU USP).
Publications: ANTONUCCI, D. et all. Da luta pela moradia à urbanização de assentamentos precários: a política habitacional no Brasil. In Zuquim et all. ‘Barrios Populares|Medellín/Favelas|São Paulo’. FAPESP/FAUUSP, 2017; ANTONUCCI, D.; FILOCOMO, G. Design and occupancy of public spaces in social housing. In 'New Urban Configurations'. TU Delft, 2014; ANTONUCCI, D. (Org.) Urbanização na virada do milênio: enfoques e perspectivas do programa UN-HABITAT. São Paulo: Mackenzie, 2012; ANTONUCCI, D. et al. UN-HABITAT - das Declarações aos Compromissos. São Paulo: Romano Guerra, 2010.
She has experience in the Architecture and Urbanism area, with a focus on Urban Planning and Design, and is engaged mainly in the following subject areas: social housing, social inclusion, public space, urban morphology, and human settlement.
She is an adviser to the Architecture and Town Planning Council - SP, participating in Ethics and Discipline, and Urban Mobility Commissions.

Professor PhD. Eunice Helena Sguizzardi Abascal
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Professor PhD. Eunice Helena Sguizzardi Abascal
Eunice holds a Degree from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (1982), a Master´s, MA from the Graduate Program in Communication and Letters - Mackenzie Presbyterian University (1996), a Master´s, MA in Social Sciences from the Graduate School of Social Sciences of FESP- SP (1986) and a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (2004). She is a Postdoctoral fellow at ETSAB – the Superior Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2018-2019). She was FAU Mackenzie Extension Coordinator (2009-2011) and Research Coordinator (2011-2013) and Coordinator of the UPM Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism (2013-2018). She is a lecturer at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at FAU-Mackenzie (since 1986), a Full Professor at FAU Mackenzie and a permanent teacher on the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism (since 2008), teaching subjects in the area of History of Architecture and Urbanism, Architectural Theory, History of Art and Aesthetics, and Contemporary Art. She was editor of the journal Cadernos de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (Mackenzie on line) in 2012. She is the author of many journal articles journals and book chapters. Eunice heads the research groups 'Paradigms for the Study of Ibero-American Cities in the 21st Century' and 'Architecture, Training and Professional Practice'. Her research projects have centered on Iberian and Latin American History primarily exploring the following subject areas: History and historiography of Architecture and Urbanism, architectural education, public spaces, urban restoration, urban plans and designs.

Professor PhD. José Geraldo Simões Junior
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Professor PhD. José Geraldo Simões Junior
José Geraldo holds a Postdoctoral degree in Urbanism from the Technische Universität Wien - Austria (2010). Since 2000, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the FAU of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where he served as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism (2001-2004) and as General Coordinator of the Graduate Program (2004-2008). He was Visiting Professor on the Doctoral Program in Urbanism, at the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies of Lisbon (2004-2013) and Visiting Researcher in Urban Studies at Radboud University in the Netherlands (July 2013). He is Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, England (2020-2026). In 2003, he was Director of São Paulo Historical Heritage (DPH) and Chairman of its Preservation Council (CONPRESP). Between 2012 and 2016, José was a member of Conpresp, representing the IAB.. He is also Scientific advisor to CAPES, CNPQ, Fapesp and FCT-Portugal. Jose is a member of the Editorial Board of the Arquitextosw Journals and Cadernos de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, PPGAU-Mackenzie. Reviewer of the journals Cadernos Metrópoles, CPC-USP Magazine, Risco, REURBE, Urbana, Publishers SESC, SENAC, UNESP and Imprensa Oficial. He was a Member of the Board of Ethics at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2016-2017) and is currently member of the Editorial Board of Mackenzie Publishers (since 2022) and of the Scholarship and PROEX Commission of the PPGAU (since 2018). He has held a Research Productivity Scholarship from CNPq - since 2006 - level 1-D, on themes related to Brazilian Urbanism and international ideals. José has a PhD in Urban Environmental Structures from the FAU of the University of São Paulo (1990-1995) and a Master´s, MA in Public Administration and Urban Planning from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas School of Public Administration of SP (1985-1990). He also holds an undergraduate degree from the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (1978-1983). He studied Civil Engineering at the Polytechnic School of USP (1975-1978). Areas of interest: History of Urbanism, Urban Projects, and Cultural Heritage.

Professor PhD. Luiz Guilherme Rivera de Castro
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Professor PhD. Luiz Guilherme Rivera de Castro
Professor on the architecture and urbanism program of Mackenzie Presbyterian University since 1988 and Professor on PPGAU Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism since 2016 engaged in the line of research Modern and Contemporary Urbanism: Representation and Intervention. Since 2004 is vice-head of the research group Contemporary Urbanism: networks, systems and processes. In February 2023 began coordinating the research group : Q URB URBAN ISSUES: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING, LANDSCAPE (http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/54869). In 2021 joined the Advisory Board on Public Space of City Space Architecture (http://www.cityspacearchitecture.org/). Luiz graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (1986), holds a Master´s in Architecture and Urbanism from the Presbyterian University Mackenzie (1998) and a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (2006). He was Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism (2021-2024).and of Final Year Projects and Research (2018-2020). Adjunct Coordinator of the Architecture and Urbanism Course (2013-2018) at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University.. Has experience in the area of Modern and Contemporary Urbanism, engaging primarily in the following subject areas: public spaces, city of care, urban common, urbanism theories, urban planning, urban restoration, urban projects, urban operations and urban policies.

Professor PhD. Nadia Somekh
Modern and Contemporary Urbanism: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Nadia Somekh
Nadia is a Professor Emeritus at the FAU-Mackenzie, and holds a PhD from the FAU-USP. He was elected President of the Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do BRasil CAUBR in January 2021 for the 2021/2023 tenure. In August 2018, the Ministry of Higher Education and of Research of the French Republic awarded her the Academic Palm and the title "Chevalier dans l Ordre des Palmes Academiques". In 2022, she was given the Presidential Medal and an honorary position as member of the American Institute of Architects - AIA. Nadia was President of CONPRESP and Director of the São Paulo City Hall's Historical Heritage Department from 2013 to 2016, where she created the Jornada do Patrimônio (Heritage Journey)in São Paulo city in 2015, with annual editions thereafter under a law passed by the City Council. She was EMURB's President and Secretary of Economic Development of Santo André, among other public positions. She was Director of the FAU Mackenzie from 2005 to 2009 and oversaw the structuring of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie. She was IUA Counselor (International Union of Architects 2008/2017) and is IAB Counselor and was elected Federal Counselor by the CAU for the 2018/2020 period. She helped get Rio elected as host for the 2020 IUA Congress, postponed until 2021, and helped hold the event via the CAU Brasil. She was an Invited Professor at IUP (Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris) and the University of Cergy Pontoise and of the Val de Seine Paris School of Architecture. She has been a CNPq productivity researcher since 2012. Nada is author of “A Cidade Vertical e o Urbanismo Modernizador” (The Vertical City and Modernizing Urbanism), among other books and articles. She carries out research on verticalization of Brazilian cities and urban projects with social inclusion and protection for Historical/Cultural Heritage in the contemporary metropolis.

Professor PhD. Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli
Modern and Contemporary Urbanism: representation and intervention
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Professor PhD. Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli
Professor at Mackenzie University’s Graduate Program in Architecture and Urban Planning. Architect and Urban Planner (PUCC, 1982), Master of Science in Social History (UNICAMP, 1990), PhD in Architecture History (USP, 1990). Retired Full Professor of the University of São Paulo (1986-2021).
Vice President of the Board of Instituto Bardi, where worked since 2006 Director, Curator and Coordinator of the Conservation Management Plan of Casa de Vidro, support by Getty Foundation (2016-2019). Cultural Director of Institute of Architects of Brazil – São Paulo IABsp Department, is the curator of the 14a. International São Paulo Biennale of Architecture (September 2025). Co-author of the Conservation Management Plan of Alexander Calder mobile Black Widow at IABsp (2020-2022). Docomomo International member since 1999.
Leader of the subnetwork Climate Change and Adaptation of the National Institute of Science and Technology Klimapolis Brasil (2023-2028, CNPq), directed and participated in several projects that articulate new sustainable paradigms of infrastructure and urban form, such as Cities, Infrastructures and Adaptation for Climate Change (2022–2024, CNPq, MackPesquisa) and Klimapolis Laboratory (BBMBF 2018/2024)
He worked as a public manager at the Municipal Government of São Carlos (Secretary of Public Works, Transport and Services, 2001/2004) coordinated the Environmentally Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, implementing the first water infrastructures with nature-based solutions in the city.
Visiting professor and researcher at Indian Institute of Technology of Madras (Chennai, 2022), Columbia University (NYC, 2016), HafenCity University (Hamburg, 2013-2017), University of Texas (Austin, 2013), IUAV Veneza (1994). Member of the Advisory Committee of Applied Social Sciences, CNPq, 2019-2022
Coordinator of Architecture and Urbanism Committee, FAPESP, 2009-2018
Board Member, Council for the Defense of the Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Tourist Heritage of the State of São Paulo, CONDEPHAAT 2019-2021.
Main books:
Rino Levi, Architecture and City (co-authored with Abílio Guerra and Nelson Kon, Romano Guerra, 2001);
Architettura Contemporanea: Brasile (Italy, Motta, 2008/2012 and France, Actes Sud, 2009);
Plan and Conformation of the Base of the Metropolis: Mobility Networks in São Paulo (Marca Visual, 2010);
Glass Houses (Romano Guerra, 2018) – catalogue of the exhibition held at the Glass House in 2017/18;
Glass House - Lina Bo Bardi architect: Conservation Management Plan (Instituto Bardi / Getty Foundation 2019).
http://www.getty.edu/foundation/pdfs/kim/instituto_bardi_casa_de_vidro_cmp_english.pdf