Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2005

Group Leader: Dr. Eunice Helena S. Abascal

e-mail: pos.fau@mackenzie.br 

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Archit.: Representation and Intervention

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Mackenzie Architecture Alumni in the Modernity: Design Quality
• URBAN DESIGNS IN LATIN AMERICA: QUALITATIVE CRITERIA AND INDICATORS. THE CASES OF RECIFE, RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTIAGO DO CHILE AND CALAMA
• URBAN DESIGNS IN LATIN AMERICA: QUALITATIVE CRITERIA AND INDICATORS. THE CASES OF RECIFE, RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTIAGO DO CHILE AND CALAMA – II

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2005

Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Maria Augusta J. P./Prof. Dr. Valter Luis Caldana Jr. 

e-mail:augusta@mackenzie.br/ caldana@mackenzie.br

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Archit.: Representation and Intervention

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Ceramic Architecture
• Architecture and Construction
• Office Buildings: Design and Construction
• Social Housing in Brazil: Projects and Sustainability in the 21st Century
• Social Housing in Brazil: Projects and Sustainability in the 21st Century – Part II

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2005

Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Wilson Florio   

e-mail:wflorio@mackenzie.br

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Archit.: Representation and Intervention

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Modelagem Paramétrica
• Parametric Modeling 
• The Role of Experimentation in the Architecture design process – Part II
• Fast Prototypes
• Column Geometry 
• Analysis of unbuilt designs by Vilanova Artigas in São Paulo

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2004

Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Rafael Antonio Perrone/ Prof. Dr. Ana Gabriela G. Lima

e-mail:perrone@mackenzie.br/ 1111664@mackenzie.br 

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Architecture

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Academic 
• Brutalist Architecture  / Architecture Contest
• Vertical Buildings / NTKC- Non Traditional
• Academic Research in Design Practice Areas
• Design Practice of Architects and Designers
• Design Practice of Architects and Designers Analysis of design practice instruments and potential application – whether directly or indirectly – to Degree Program academic research
• Recent Latin-American Architecture
• Brazilian Architecture / Architecture in São Paulo
• Brutalist Connections / Paths and Designs
• The City Talks – Forms of appropriating the city
• Design, Research and Teaching
• Design, Research and Teaching – Part II
• Women in Architecture
• Female and Plural / Female and Plural  [1]

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2004

Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Célia Regina Moretti Meirelles

e-mail:  cerellesm@mackenzie.br 

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Construction Systems in Contemporary Architecture
• Sustainable Construction Techniques: quality criteria for erected buildings
• Wood Construction Technology

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2001

Group Leader: José Geraldo Simões Júnior

e-mail:jgsj@mackenzie.br

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Urban Planning

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Construction of the Ideas Set
• Dissemination of the International Urban Planning Ideas Set: The relevance of the early urban planning conferences 
• Leading characters in the urban-planning ideas set
• History, Culture and the City in Contemporary Brazil
• The Urban-Planning Debate / Urban Cultural Heritage
• The International Urban Planning Ideas Set: References for the actions of the earliest urban planners in São Paulo: (1890-1930)
• The Spanish/Portuguese-American City – History, Culture and Urban Planning – Passages of the urban planning ideas set across Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
• The Urban Planning Debate in São Paulo, 1945-1965: Part III

Group Status: Institution-certified – Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2004

Group Leader: Angélica A. T. B. Alvim/ Luiz Guilherme R. de Castro 

e-mail:abalvim@mackenzie.br/ lgcastro@mackenzie.br 

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Urban Planning

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• From Environmental and Urban Policies to Interventions
• Housing Journey
• Public Policies and Planning
• Public Policies and Urban Designs in the Contemporary City
• Urban Design, Mobility and Social Inclusion

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2003

Group Leader: Carlos Leite de Souza 

e-mail: 

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Urban Planning: Representation and Intervention

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Urban Sustainability Indicators
• Co-Creation in Informal Territories Laboratory – Heliópolis
• Co-Creation in Informal Territories Laboratories
• Mega-Cities and Sustainable Development
• Urban Designs and Sustainable Urban Development 

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2012

Group Leader: Nadia Somekh

e-mail:nadia@mackenzie.br

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Urban Planning: Representation and Intervention

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• City Design and Verticalization – Part II
• Urban Designs and Local Development and Social Inclusion
• Urban Designs in historical areas in Brazil and Latin America
• Modern and Contemporary Urban Planning: Representation and Intervention
• Verticalization of Brazilian Cities
• Verticalization, Urban Designs and Social Inclusion

Group Status: Mackenzie Presbyterian University

Year Formed: 2001

Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Gilda Collet Bruna/ Prof. Dr. Roberto Righi

e-mail:gilda@mackenzie.br/ robrighi@mackenzie.br

Research Line: Modern and Contemporary Urban Planning: Representation and Intervention

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RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Comparative Assessment of the Training and Professional Action of Urban Planners in Brazil and Portugal 
• Sustainable Cities and Buildings – Part II
• Sustainable Cities and Buildings – Part III
• The role of new technologies in the development, planning, design, construction and performance of cities and buildings