Marvão Traditional Architecture
Summer School 2018

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).

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.

Kim worked as a project architect and project leader with a number of commercial architectural practices. After that, he was a group director with an architectural practice specializing in housing led development for both private sector and public sector clients. He has over 15 years in the field of urban design, master planning and residential design.

Kim has been with the Prince’s Foundation since September 2011 when he joined as a project manager, leading the major regeneration master planning project of Wood River in Illinois, USA.

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.

He started his teaching activity lecturing in the Architecture degree of the Universidade Moderna, in Lisbon (1996-2003), and the Centro Regional das Beiras of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Viseu (2004-2009). He is an assistant-professor at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute since 2006, where he is the Head of the Architecture and Urbanism Department since July 2016. He was also the President of ISCTE’s Pedagogical Council from 2013 to 2014. He develops his academic research activities at the Dinâmia CET-IUL Research Unit, having participated in several Research Projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. He has taken part in the organization and moderation of congresses, conferences and exhibitions in Portugal and abroad: at Centro Cultural de Belém, La Triennalle di Milano, Università IUAV di Venezia, the University of Liverpool and others. He is author and co-author of numerous articles, books and book chapters, both in Portugal as in other countries.

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).