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).

Fernando Aranda Egido has been part of Kalam’s team of professionals since 2006, serving as General Manager of many of his restoration work of heritage and historic buildings such as the Embassy of Spain in Havana, the Cathedral of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Zurich Building, modernist facade of the Ortigosa 10 building, rehabilitation of the building located on Ramblas 140, Ronda Sant Antoni 70, Sardenya 173 all in Barcelona, Seminar of Comillas, Bank of Spain of Madrid, and its branches of Santander, Seville and Zaragoza and Palacio de Correos, Casa Palazuelo or Casa Matesanz in Madrid (all by architect Antonio Palacios) among others.

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.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the University of Navarra. Professor of Architectural Composition at the University of the Basque Country. M.A. (Oxford Brookes University). MSc. (University of Oxford). PhD. from University of Navarra. He has been recipient of a Juan March Foundation Scholarship, Visiting Critic at various schools in the US and Europe, and Visiting Scholar at the John P. Getty Foundation, Los Angeles. He was Dean of the School of Architecture of the University of Miami. Javier has been editor of the international architectural magazine Composicion Arquitectonica, Art & Architecture and practices architecture along with Mr. Iñigo Saloña. Together, they have built a number of buildings, mainly in Northern Spain, but also in Brussels, Miami and Berlin. They have received diverse awards, such as the European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City (Fondation Rotthier) on two occasions. Premio Manzano Martos de Arquitectura Clasica y Restauración de Monumentos in 2014, and awards from the Basque Country and Navarre Institute of Architects and the Bizkaia Institute of Architects. Their work has been exhibited at various places, among them at the Biennale di Venezia and they have also curated several architectural exhibitions. Javier Cenicacelaya is author of numerous articles, eleven books and more than forty chapters of books.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), holds a PhD focused on earthen construction. He has made many contributions on this field with academic and research activities. He is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at the University of Castilla – La Mancha, teaching “Vernacular Construction and construction history”, “Building construction basics” and “Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in building design”.

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.

Born in Porto in 1979. Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. Attended the Attingham Summer School in 2007. He has worked with Demetri Porphyrios in London, Paolo Portoghesi in Rome and Fairfax and Sammons Architects in New York. Alexandre is one of the founders of INTBAU Portugal and Forum Cidadania Porto, a citizen-based watchdog concerned with the preservation of the city’s historical heritage.

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.

Kim is a qualified architect and has a degree in landscape architecture. He also holds a qualification in project management, and is an associate lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity St David supporting the Prince’s Foundation’s MA in Sustainable Urbanism. He has also lectured units in history and technology at Greenwich University.

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.

Graduated with a degree in Advanced Middle Ages Studies, holds a Ph.D. focused on Hispanic Philology, Specialist in Theory, History, Legislation and Intervention in architectural restoration. He has studied the field of Christian Religious Architecture. He is a Professor at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, teaching History of Architecture and Theory of Restoration. He is Coordinator of the Architectural Composition Area and of the PhD in Architecture and Heritage Program at the same university and Activities Vice Chair of the Centro de Investigación de Arquitectura Tradicional of the UPM (CIAT). He is co-author of the Diccionario de Construcción Tradicional: Tierra and author of several books and essays on Architecture and Heritage, Medieval Studies and Historical Onomastics.

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 Art History and a Diploma in Restoration. He has worked in Kalam since 2000, having served as Head of Restoration Work on the west facade of the Giralda in the Cathedral of Seville, the restoration of the choir stalls of the Cathedral of Plasencia, the Senate Palace in Madrid, Puerta de Toledo in Ciudad Real, Cathedral of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Cathedral of Sigüenza (1st and 2nd phase), Facades of the National Archaeological Museum, Cathedrals of Cádiz, Almería, Santiago de Compostela and Ávila for the Ministry of Culture, restoration of the Major Seminary of Comillas, Convent of San Clemente in Toledo, Mudejar towers of San Bartolomé, and San Miguel in Toledo or Cenador de la Reina in the Palace of La Granja in Segovia, among others.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa School of Architecture (1990), he holds a Master in “Reabilitação de Estruturas e Patologia de Materiais” from the Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico (1990) and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Seville School of Architecture (2003). His career includes practice with Maria Luísa Garcez D’Orey Architect (1986-1989), followed by Eduardo Naya Marques and Luís Branco Neves (1991-1992). He is a partner of J2L Arquitectos Ldª, where he has led diverse housing projects and public buildings commissions in Portugal and Madeira.

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.

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.