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Designing in Times of Crisis offers insights, visions, and strategies for architects and urban designers to question and respond to the crises and challenges of the contemporary anthropocentric world.
List of contents
List of figuresList of tablesList of mapsList of contributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentIntroductionPart 1: EnvisioningChapter 1. From Solid Do Liquid Contemporary Architecture: A Crisis of Space and Time
Jorge David Morales AlvearChapter 2. Hacking Into Green Deal Neighbourhoods with City Ethics and Fundamental Human Rights
Alexander Matthias GernerChapter 3. Project For the Environment: The Architecture of the Seven Elements
Jorge Cruz PintoChapter 4. Rehearsals Of Shared Encounters for Improvising a Public Square
Alexander Matthias Gerner, Ljiljana ¿avi¿Chapter 5. Social Housing Projects in Brazil: Analytical Potentialities
Fabiano Sobreira, Maria SchulzChapter 6. One Piece of The Environmental Puzzle - The Relationship Between Architectural Practice And Climate Change
Juliane Freire, Paulo Pereira AlmeidaPart 2: ApplyingChapter 7. Self-Construction with a Modular System of Small Wood Components and Gender Equity
Alanis Larissa Fernandes BoganikaChapter 8. Experimentation with Building Techniques Using Earth in Professional Training: A Path for the Architecture of Response
Ana Valéria Soares Nunes, Ingrid Gomes Braga, Taynah Machado Pacifico de SousaChapter 9. House, Body, And Windows: Space-Time Interferences During the Covid-19 Quarantine
Paula Gabbi Polli, Fabiana Ferreira Carvalho, Michele BaruffaldiChapter 10. Children's Mobility in the City: The Attachment to the Urban Environment as Formation for Citizenship in Quixadá, Brazil
Diego Freire Martins, Verônica Maria Fernandes de LimaChapter 11. Teaching-Learning Spaces in Architecture and Urban Planning: A Challenge in Time
Lucimeire Pessoa de Lima, Helena Aparecida Ayoub SilvaChapter 12. Adapt Cube - Conceptual and Material Narratives
Jorge Cruz Pinto, Ljiljana ¿avi¿Index
About the author
Jorge Cruz Pinto is a Portuguese architect and visual artist. He is currently a Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was president of the Scientific Council, former head of the Architectural Design Department, and founder and former president of the CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design. He was also an invited professor at
La Sapienza Università di Roma and at the
Facoltà di Architettura di Matera. Pinto's publications include several books and scientific articles about architecture, aesthetics, architectural design works, and art works, namely para-architectures.
Ljiljana ¿avi¿ is a Serbian architect and Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, where she earned her doctoral degree in 2018. She holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade. She is a member of CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design and the architecture + design/drawing + art + project + theory/technology (ADAPT) group. Her research focuses on UrbArch Emptiness and the immaterial qualities of urban-architectural spaces. She is the co-author of Solid and Convex Voids, an analytic and representational method intended for investigating the unbuilt parts of urban-architectural spaces.
Hugo Lopes Farias is a Portuguese architect and a Professor in Architectural Design at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching since 1997. He has been the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Architecture since 2018, and the Architecture Cluster of CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design since 2021. His research focuses on the architecture of dwelling across multiple scales, aiming to develop adequate, accessible, diverse, and higher-quality housing solutions for both the present and the future.
Luis Miguel Ginja is a Portuguese architect with a PhD from the Lisbon School of Architecture. He is an integrated researcher at CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design and has coordinated the WATer project - Water, Architecture and Territory - since 2022, and participated in other research projects on territory and city subjects. He was an invited Assistant Professor for the Industrial Design course at the Universidade da Beira Interior. His research primarily explores design themes, with a focus on the relationship between the body and space, the hand and the design process, and the interaction between the city and the territory.
Summary
Designing in Times of Crisis offers insights, visions, and strategies for architects and urban designers to question and respond to the crises and challenges of the contemporary anthropocentric world.
