Marvão Traditional Architecture
Summer School 2018

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Sevilla, she holds a Master in intervention techniques from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a Diploma in Building Restoration and Rehabilitation. She was cofounder with Oriol Roselló of Atelier Bangolo, practicing since 2004, and dedicated to rehabilitation of rural heritage and designing new buildings using bioclimatic and traditional techniques.

She was Visiting Professor at the ‘Unió d’empresaris de la construcció’ of Catalonia and Associate Professor of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, co-director of the “XXXVIII Curset AADIPA 2015: Traditional architecture: the essence or the form” and of the first edition of the Traditional Building Course in Girona, both organized by the Institute of Architects of Catalonia. She has written several articles in professional journals and was co-author of the book Experiences réhabilitation Méditerranéennes, edited by Rehabimed. She is a Professor at the Escola Superior Gallaecia since 2012 and Deputy Director of the Architecture and Urbanism Master since 2016. She has been awarded the First Iberian Award for “Research on Traditional Architecture” (2011-2012) and the First Prize “XII Premis Ecoviure y las instalaciones construcciones sostenibles” (2014).

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Universidade de Lisboa, she holds a PhD in Sustainable Architecture from the Universidade de Lisboa and a Master on Desert Architecture from the University of Arizona. Both thesis are focused on bioclimatic principles of vernacular architecture for rehabilitation in protected areas. After working on Environmental Building Assessment schemes in California, she taught sustainable architecture and urban ecology at Lusophone University in Lisbon. Since 2014 she lives in Germany where she started a postdoc research on urban gardening in Leipzig. She is now working on a research project focusing on rural development in Portugal. She is also interested on nature based solutions for climate change mitigating and adaptation.

She has co-coordinated the International “Art of Gardens Books” (2012-2013) and “An Ecology before Ecology” (2013-2014) Series of Seminars and, with other colleagues, has organized for the past four years the International Cycle of Seminars “Landscape and Heritage”(2011-2015). From 2005 to 2015 she has been coordinator of several research teams regarding the Garden of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and is the author of The Garden (2006), and co-author of Gulbenkian. Architecture and Landscape (2006) and Edifícios e Jardim. Renovação (1998-2014) (2015).

He has collaborated in the CIAT-UPM, Centro de Investigación de Arquitectura Tradicional of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
As a researcher he has visited several universities in Venezuela (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida), New México University (Alburquerque, USA) and Cal Poly (Pomona, California, USA). He has taken part in the organization and moderation of congresses, conferences and workshops on traditional rammed earth and modern earth construction. He is author and co-author of numerous articles and book chapters related to the intervention and valorization of historical heritage built with earth.

With Catarina Santos he started their eponymous Architecture firm located in downtown Porto, Portugal, in 2011. Their focus is on private residential projects, with a strong emphasis on decoration and interior design. Beyond their work in Portugal the office coordinates and collaborates with international teams of consultants, builders, artisans, architects and decorators. In the past years the company has developed projects for private residences in prestige locations such as Greenwich and Southampton in the US and Gstaad in Switzerland, as well as a large new duplex apartment on Park Avenue, New York, currently under development. The two are also the mentors and editors of oldportuguesestuff.com , a fully searchable online platform of images which showcases traditional Portuguese Architecture and objects.

As an architect of the Institución Príncipe de Viana, he has led numerous projects for the conservation and restoration of several monuments from Navarra, such as the Medieval Tower of the Señorío de Ayanz, 1998-2000 (Silver medal of the Asociación Española de Amigos de los Castillos, 2000), the Frente de Francia of the Pamplona walls, 2000-2009 (European Union International Prize of Cultural Heritage-Europa Nostra Prize 2012, conservation category), and the Real Colegiata de Roncesvalles, 1982-2012. He was awarded the Rafael Manzano Martos Prize in 2012. He was awarded the Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage National Prize in 1998.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Escola Superior Gallaecia, holds a Master in History, Territory and Heritage (2010) from the Faculty of History of the Universidade de Vigo and Ph.D. focused on the research line Genesis, Language and Representation of Architecture, from the Universidade da Coruña Scool of Architecture. She was awarded a Scientific Research Fellowship by FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology, within the framework of the SEISMIC-V Project: Vernacular Seismic Culture in Portugal, a scientific project coordinated by ESG. She was  also the author of several scientific and national communications and publications in the field of heritage and vernacular architecture.

She is currently a teacher at ESG in the Degree in Architecture and Urbanism, in the areas of Heritage, Legislation and Patrimonial Protection, and General Coordination Project, among others. At present, she has her own architecture studio in Spain, where she develops housing, rehabilitation and public works projects.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and holds a doctorate from the same university. He has restored numerous historic buildings in Spain and has designed new buildings in Spain and abroad. He has been Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Seville since 1966, where he was also Dean from 1974 to 1978. He has also lectured at many national and international universities.

Among his multiple works, he was headed to the preservation of the Reales Alcázares of Seville from 1970 to 1991, chaired the works commission of the Real Patronato of the Alhambra and the Generalife from 1971 to 1981 (Shiller Prize for Restoration of Monuments in 1980), and headed up the preservation of the ancient Caliphal city of Medina Azahara from 1975 to 1985. He has published diverse texts on Medieval and Islamic architecture. He is a member of many national and international institutions, such as Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; the Royal Academies of History and Fine Arts of Granada, Córdoba, Cádiz, Málaga, Écija, Toledo and La Coruña; and the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras. He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Fine Arts of Spain and, in 2010, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize, and he is Comendador con Placa de la Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture, he holds a PhD in Architecture from the Universidade do Porto (FAUP). He is a Senior Lecturer at the Universidade do Algarve, and a member of CEAACP and CEPAC. He worked for several architecture firms based in Porto, Macao, New York and Faro and coordinated the Office for the Villages in the Algarve. He was awarded the Municipal Architecture Award of Faro (2017).

He has coordinated various research projects on vernacular architecture, urbanism and landscape, including the “Built rural heritage survey of the western region of the Algarve” (Odiana, 2004); “Mértola: architecture in the town and its territory” (Alentejo, 2013/15), and “Architecture and landscape in the Western Mediterranean: Integrated study of the mountain areas in Morocco” (Ualg-Cadi Ayyad, 2016/17). He has authored and co-authored several publications, including “Casas e montes da serra entre as estremas do Alentejo e do Algarve” (2014) or “Mértola. Arquitetura da vila e do termo” (2015). He co-edited the conference proceedings “Traditional Architecture in the Western Mediterranean” (2015). Current research interests include domestic architecture and urbanism in Portugal and the Mediterranean, from the modern period onwards.

Specialist in built heritage and archeology of architecture, he has led archeological works and historical research projects of numerous Spanish monuments and he has participated in conservation and restoration projects of historical buildings, mainly with Medieval or Modern chronology. He is the main researcher of the project San Miguel de Piura: primera fundación española en el Perú and scientific coordinator of the Iberoamerican Network of Colonial Urbanism Research [RII_uc]. He is a chair member of the Sociedad Española de Historia de la Construcción (SEHC), member of the Instituto de Investigación del Patrimonio Cultural del Perú (Universidad Ricardo Palma) and member of the Real Academia de Historia y Arte de San Quirce (Segovia).