COORDINATION
Pedro Leão Neto (FAUP)
Pedro Leão Neto is a researcher and professor at FAUP since 2007 in the area of Architecture Communication and Photography, he is the head of the courses “Computer Architecture Aided Design and Photography” (CAAD) and “Photography of Architecture, City and Territory” (FACT). He is the coordinator of the research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) integrated in FAUP´s R&D Centre, director of the cultural association Cityscopio and the founder and editorial coordinator of scopio Editions and its open platform scopionetwork, being these AAI´s research-based editorial projects focused on Contemporary Photography related with Architecture, City and Territory. He has curated several architectural photography exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, workshops and international debates and seminars around the universe of Architecture, Art and Image, being coordinator of 8 international conferences with blind peer review of papers and published proceedings. He is an author and editor of more than 40 books and the coordinator and / or Principal Investigator (PI) of several national and international projects publicly funded. He is currently a researcher of the project SizaATLAS. Filling the Gaps for World Heritage, PI of “Visual spaces of Change” and Coordinator of CONTRAST, all financed by Portuguese public agencies, namely FCT and DGartes.
ORGANIZING / PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
Hugh Campbell
Hugh Campbell is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. His research focuses on modern and contemporary architectural production, on the relationship between photography, architecture and built space, and on the visual culture of cities. His recent publications include Space Framed: Photography, Architecture, and the Inhabited Environment (2020); Architecture Filmmaking (2019), co-edited with Igea Troiani; and Architecture 1600- 2000, volume 4 of the RIA/Yale UP Art and Architecture of Ireland series (2014). With Grafton Architects, he curated the Close Encounter section of the 2018 Venice Biennale, Freespace. With Nathalie Weadick, he was curator of Ireland’s pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale, The Lives of Spaces. He is on the steering group of the AHRA and on the board of Places Journal, to which he is a regular contributor.
Igea Troiani
Igea Troiani (PhD) is a Professor of Architecture and Head of Division for Architecture at London South Bank University (LSBU). She is an architect and filmmaker with almost 30 years-experience of working in a university, architecture practice and universities gained in the UK (London, Oxford and Plymouth), China (Suzhou), Germany (Münster) and Australia (Brisbane and Melbourne). Her three key areas of research are 1) the social production of architecture; 2) architecture and media (focusing on publishing and filmmaking) and 3) architectural labour, neoliberalism and sustainable ecologies. She studies architecture from transdisciplinary perspectives to determine the conditions in which architecture is, and architects are, socially, culturally and economically produced. Her books include The Politics of Making (2017/2007); Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture (2017); Architecture Filmmaking (2019); Visual Research Methods in Architecture (2021); and Spaces of Tolerance (2021), and Work-life Balance in Architecture (in press).
João Leal
Artist and teacher. Participates in solo and group exhibitions since 2001. His artworks use still and moving images as well as sound and they are presented in exhibition, projection and installation formats. His main interests as a practitioner are the ideas of structure (and its multiple connotations), the “proximity/distance” dichotomy and the ways of occupying the exhibition space. In 2005 won, ex-aequo, the "Pedro Miguel Frade" award, from the Portuguese Centre of Photography, with the work "Night Order”. In 2018 won the aquisition award of the XX Cerveira Biennale. PhD in Visual Arts (practice based in instalation, photography and videoart) from the University of South Wales (supervised by Mark Durden and Lisa Barnard) in connection with the European Centre for Documentary Research. Has a degree in Audiovisual Communication Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, majoring in Photography. Worked in São João and D.Maria II National Theatres, RTP Portuguese television, and “Casa da Música”. Full time professor in the Department of Image Arts P.Porto | ESMAD and member of the CEAU | AAI - Architecture, Art and Image Research Group and UNIMAD research unit. Since 2017, João Leal works collaboratively with Mark Durden in photographing modernist European architecture, beginning with Álvaro Siza. The website of the project is www.durden-leal.com
Mark Durden
Mark Durden is a writer and artist. He studied Fine Art at Exeter College of Art and Design and at Glasgow School of Art, going on to study History and Theory of Art at University of Kent at Canterbury— attaining an MA by research for a thesis on Roland Barthes and a PhD on Photography and the Book. He has taught both Art History and Fine Art at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury and at Staffordshire University. He taught History of Photography at University of Derby where he became Reader in 2002 and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) in Photography in 2003. He left Derby in 2007 to join Newport as Professor of Photography. He has published extensively on photography and contemporary art and since 1997 has worked as part of the artists’ group Common Culture.
Olívia Marques da Silva
Olívia Marques da Silva (Porto, 1962). Guest researcher at the Audiovisual Studies Group at the University of Santiago Compostela. PhD in Photography at the Derby University of Art & Design,United Kingdom (Ph.D, Mphil/Ph.D/MA). Received a Scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) and Portuguese Photography Centre (CPF). She associates academic activity with artistic expression as a photographer, participating in several individual and collective exhibitions. Collaborator in several publications on the theme of Visual Anthropology and Documentary Photography. Her connection to the Polytechnic of Porto began in 1992, where she was diretor of the Department of Visual Arts at the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE). She coordinated and was the creator of the Masters in Audiovisual Communication and her specialist areas of teaching include: Photography and Audiovisual Cinema, and also Audiovisual Production and Direction. She was President of the Technical-Scientific Council at ESMAE. As a member of uniMAD/ESMAD and IF-UP, she collaborates with the following research centres: GEV-Santiago de Compostela University (Spain), eCPR – European Centre for Photographic Research at South Wales University. She is currently a member of the General Council of P.Porto (CG-IPP), a member of the Management Council of P.Porto, and for the last seven years, has been Presidente of the School of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD/P.Porto ).
Rikke Munck Petersen
Rikke Munck Petersen, associate professor, University of Copenhagen, Landscape Architecture and Planning, is a trained landscape architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts', School of Architecture, from which she also acquired her practice-based PhD. Rikke research experimental design and planning methods with a focus on aesthetic experience, media mediation, affect and care bridging large-scale, ecological nature-culture perspectives. Rikke's latest films and publications deal with filmmaking extending landscape architectural practice, qualifying the sensorial and affective co-creative capacity of filmmaking to strengthen attunement, care and action in relation to the reuse/renewal of the cultural landscape as common good. Filmmaking as a collective co-creative research method and collaborative co-creative method strengthening the share of sensorial experiences and affective qualities among more has her focus. Her artistic practice-based research and teaching as well as consultant work on municipal and governmental level bridges machinic, posthuman, phenomenological, ecological, aesthetic, caring and speculative methods and perspectives in the field of landscape architecture and planning. Rikke has published with Intellect, Routledge, Bloomsbury, Elsevier and Taylor and Francis.
Teresa Ferreira
Teresa Cunha Ferreira is an architect by Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto and PhD by Politecnico di Milano (in cotutela with faup, 2009). Professional experience in the Regional Direction of Monuments and Buildings of the North (dremn-dgemn) and in the Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e il Paesaggio di Milano (sbapmi), among other collaborations and projects. She develops teaching activity as Guest Professor at the Architecture School of the University of Minho (2009-17) and at the PhD Program of faup (2012-17). Integrated Member of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at faup, in the Heritage of Architecture, the City and the Territory Group (pact), with participation in national and international projects and publications. Coordinator of the Management Plan for the Conservation and Enhancement of the Monuments of the Romanesque Route. Founding member of the Portuguese Association for Urban Rehabilitation and Heritage Protection and member of the Board of icomos- Portugal.
CONFERENCE ORGANISING TEAM
Ana Miriam Rebelo
Ana Miriam Rebelo is a photographer and researcher in the field of arts and visual culture. She graduated in Fine Arts from the École d'Enseignement Supérieur d'Art de Bordeaux (2005). Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation, University of Aveiro (2019). PhD research fellow in Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, with the project Visual and semantic identities of the city of Porto: an ascertainment of the contributions of informal dwelling (ID+/CEAU). Member of the Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture (ID+) and collaborating member of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU). Her professional activity has been developed between practice, teaching and research in the field of arts and visual culture, with emphasis on photography and editorial projects. She was a teacher and coordinator of the Technical Photography Course at the Multimedia Institute. Her artistic and scientific production, disseminated through communications, publications and exhibitions in different contexts, focuses on the construction, perception and representation of urban space, with an emphasis on the dynamics of production and use of public space and its social, aesthetic and political impacts.
Sara Masi
Sara Masi is an architect from the Department of Architecture (DIDA) at the University of Florence where she obtained her Bachelor degree in Architecture in 2021. Actually, she is attending the Master of Architecture, Built environment and Interiors at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), in which she integrated a period of studies and work at the Faculdade de Arquitectura do Porto (FAUP) through the Erasmus + programme. She has curated some architectural exhibitions in Italy, worked as book editor and graphic designer for some publications, as her own thesis book "Tessere musive di architettura”. A daily practitioner and enthusiast of photography and its form of expression, she is interested in it as a tool for social, urban and architectural studies and analysis.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Maria Neto
Maria Neto, architect, invited assistant professor at DECA-UBI, and researcher at CEAU-FAUP and ICHaB-ETSAM. PhD in Architecture (EA-UAH+ICHaB-ETSAM, 2022) with an individual research scholarship from FTC, worthy of nomination for the Prémio Extraordinário UAH, holds post-graduation in Development of Human Settlements in the Third World (ICHaB/ETSAM) and professional practice in Humanitarian Shelter Coordination (IFRC/UNCHR/Oxford Brookes University). She has collaborated with the UNHCR and the BRC supporting refugees in Kenya and the UK. She was the recipient of the Fernando Távora Award, a guest speaker representing Portugal at the 17th International Exhibition of Architecture from the Venice Biennale and selected for the anthology of the Lisbon University Triennial Award. In addition to teaching at DECA-UBI and practising in her architectural studio with Jorge Marum, she has collaborated with IHRU on the program “Da Habitação ao Habitat” within the framework of the New Generation of Housing Policies.
Nuno Grande
Nuno Grande obtained his degree in Architecture at the University of Oporto in 1992. Obtained his PhD degree in Architecture at the University of Coimbra in 2009, based on his academic thesis: Architectures of Culture: Politics, Debate and Space. Since 1993, he teaches at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DARQ/FCTUC) where he is Associate Professor. As a curator and a cultural programmer, he organised exhibitions on Portuguese Architecture at: Porto 2001, European Capital of Culture; 2007 Lisbon Architectural Triennale; 2007 São Paulo Architecture Biennale; Guimarães 2012, European Capital of Culture; 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016, and Serralves, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019. As a critic he writes occasionally for architectural reviews published in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Croatia, Korea and Japan. He is author or editor of different publications on Portuguese Architectural and Urban Culture.
Paulo Catrica
Paulo Catrica (Lisbon, 1965), studied Photography at Ar.Co (Lisbon,1985) and History at Universidade Lusíada (Lisbon, 1992). Received his MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmith’s College, (London,1997) and was awarded a PhD at the School of Art and Media, University of Westminster (London, 2011). Research grants from Centro Português de Fotografia (1999), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London (2001) and Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia (2006/2010 and 2014/2017). Exhibited and published his work regularly since 1997. Recent shows include Presença Gallery (Oporto, 2016), Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (Guimarães,2015), Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisboa,2015), C.A.A.A. (Guimarães, 2014), Modern Art Centre, Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2013), FruitMarket Gallery (Edinburgh, 2012), The Bluecoat (Liverpool, 2012), Milton Keynes Art Gallery (2011), EDP Museum (Lisbon, 2011), Carlos Carvalho Contemporary Art Gallery (Lisbon, 2011), Circuit Gallery (Toronto 2010) and The Mews Project (London, 2011). Fundacio Foto Colectania (Barcelona, 2010) and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2010). Main publications, monographies, Memorator (2015), Mode d’emploi (2014), TNSC (2011), Liceus (2005), You are Here (2003) and Periferias (1998). His photographs are part of public and private collections in Portugal, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Brazil and Canada. The television documentary Entre Imagens (episode 7), RTP2 (2014) a project coordenated by Sergio Mah and directed by Pedro Macedo is dedicated to his work.
Rita Castro Neves
Rita Castro Neves finished her training at the Lisbon’s Ar.Co School of Visual Arts (Photography Dept.) in 1995 and in 1998 at the Slade School of Fine Art (Master in Fine Art, Media Dept.), being currently a student at the Doctorate Programme in Contemporary Art at Coimbra University, School of the Arts. Rita Castro Neves has been exhibiting regularly in both institutional spaces (Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves, Porto, Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil, Spike Island, Bristol, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, I.C.A., London, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki, Image Museum, Braga, Nogueira da Silva Museum, Braga, Neo-Realism Museum, Vila Franca de Xira, Fábrica Asa, Guimarães European Capital Culture) and alternative spaces. Since 2015 Rita develops a collaboration with artist and architect Daniel Moreira. With Laking, produced in 2015 following an invitation by the Finish art space Oksasenkatu 11, the duo started a long project on the representation of landscape, using drawing, photography and video – in installation, to think about artistic collaboration, different techniques and artistic cultures, territory, scale and journey. Solo shows include Laking and seaing at Museu da Imagem at the Encontros da Imagem Braga Photo Festival (Braga, 2017), Ermida at Santa Luzia small church in Alvito (June 2019) and Órbitas at the Portuguese Consulate of São Paulo (with Guto Lacaz, curated by Isabella Lenzi, 2019).
AUTHORS OF THEORETICAL PAPERS AND VISUAL ESSAYS
Birgit Schilke Hammer
Birgit Schilke Hammer is a Senior Lecturer at the Department for Art History at RWTH Aachen University. From 2007 to 2009 she held a scholarship from the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation in Dusseldorf for her Dissertation about the Avantgarde photographer Sasha Stone, published in 2014. She is associate of the DFG Project “Lens on! Photography as a Design Tool in the Invention of Modern Architecture” and published several papers on architecture, photography and photo-books.
Ciro Miguel
Ciro Miguel is a Brazilian architect, photographer, and doctoral fellow of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. He holds a professional diploma from the Universidade de São Paulo FAU USP and a master’s degree from Columbia University GSAPP. He was co-curator of Todo dia/Everyday, the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (2019). In 2022, he co-edited the book Everyday Matters: Contemporary Approaches to Architecture (Ruby Press).
Corné Strootman
Corné Strootman is a landscape architect working as a designer, artist and educator. He is co-founder of KOLLEKTIEF - Urbanists and Landscape Architects and has an artistic practice where he develops experimental projects on the fringe of landscape architecture, research and filmmaking. Corné keeps lecture and teaching engagements at various institutions, amongst them ENSP-Versailles, where he integrates the use of film as a tool for landscape architecture in his teaching.
Giulio Galasso
Giulio Galasso is an architect and researcher based in Zurich. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano, IUAV and TU Munich, and he is currently a research assistant at the Chair of Christ and Gantenbein at ETH Zurich. His field of research is XX century Italian middle-class housing, and he has lectured at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Biennale svizzera del territorio, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine, Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano and University of Antwerp. Together with Natalia Voroshilova he founded continentale, an architecture practice based in Zurich.
Jasna Galjer
Jasna Galjer is an art historian and Professor at University of Zagreb. Before joining the University she worked at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb as a curator of the collections of architecture and design. Her research interests focus on 20th and early 21st century history, theory and criticism of architecture and design. She is interested especially in transfers and mediations of ideas, ideologies and discourses in the context of cultural history from the early 1950s to the end of 1970s. She is the author of various essays and monographs on architectural criticism, cultural history of periodicals, architectural photography, history of exhibitions and design. She curated and co-curated several exhibitions, including Reflections of Bauhaus (Zagreb, 2019). She is editor of The Caring State and Architecture: Sites of Education and Culture in Socialist Countries (2021, with Sanja Lončar). She is associate member of the international research program and network Mapping Architectural Criticism and CICA (The International Committee of Architectural Critics).
Leonie Bunte
Leonie Bunte is Research and Teaching Associate at RWTH Aachen University—Department of Architectural Theory. In 2019 she received the UROP scholarship and conducted research with Professor Vikram Bhatt on the topic of “Low-Cost Housing” at McGill University in Montréal. In her master's thesis in the WS 2021, she dealt with the perception of architecture through its photographic representation using the example of Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation in Berlin.
João Gadelho Novais Tavares
João Gadelho Novais Tavares (Guimarães, Portugal). Master’s degree in History of Art, Heritage and Visual Culture at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto (FLUP, 2023) with the dissertation “Foz Velha (Porto). Classification and rehabilitation of the historic urban landscape (2002-2023)”. Previously he attended the bachelor in History of Art at the same faculty (FLUP, 2021) and also had study at both Faculty of Architecture of University of Porto and University of Roma Tre. His research focus on history of architecture, cultural heritage and heritage safeguarding.
Julia Maria Bezerra de Mello
Julia Maria is an architect, urbanist and artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, having graduated from PUC-Rio in July 2022. Her work follows the intersections between the urban landscape and its use by singular and multiple bodies. It comes from a desire to research and partially disclose the mysterious and strange manifestations that are seen in contemporary cities. She is curious about revelations and enclosings and how architecture can affect individuals’ perceptions on different scales. Julia has been researching and applying bodily sized objects, from sound sculptures to video installations, to investigate how interactive architecture can amplify our critical perception of the city and its relations.
Lars Rolfsted Mortensen
Lars Rolfsted Mortensen is an Architect MA PhD from the Royal Danish Academy, whose research focuses on recent heritage, particularly the industrial and infrastructural heritage from the post-war period. He incorporates photography into his practice as a means to examine and disseminate spatial and aesthetic characteristics of the liminal heritage objects that his research revolves around. Lars has contributed to the theory and methodology of using photography as empirical material within a phenomenological tradition.
Millicent Gunner
Millicent Gunner is a PhD candidate at RMIT University exploring an attentive landscape architectural research practice, in relation to practices of care. She completed the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Design and the Master of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University. She has taught in RMIT's Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Design for the last 2 years, as well as a semester at the University of Tasmania in the Bachelor of Design.
Natalia Voroshilova
Natalia Voroshilova is an architect and researcher based in Zurich. She studied at Politecnico di Milano and ETH Zurich, where she graduate with her thesis on Milanese post-war housing as model for urban densification. She is currently a teaching assistant for the professor Paolo Carpi (Baukuh) in Politecnico di Milano, and she has lectured at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Biennale svizzera del territorio, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine, and Politecnico di Torino. Together with Giulio Galasso she founded continentale, an architecture practice based in Zurich.
Richard Williams
Richard Williams is Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, based in the School of History of Art. His is the author of eight books, mainly on the visual representation of cities, and the politics of urban images. His most recent books include The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum (2021), Reyner Banham Revisited (2021) and Why Cities Look the Way They Do (2019). He is currently working on road infrastructure for a new book for Polity. He held a Leverhulme International Research fellowship in 2022, based at the University of São Paulo, and in 2024 he will be a British Academy Senior Research Fellow.
Robin Serjeant
Robin Serjeant has been an architectural educator and independent researcher in common space.
Sotiria Alexiadou
Sotiria Alexiadou is born in Thessaloniki. Studied Architecture in University of Thessaly (2007). Attended the MSc. in Urban Strategies, Applied Arts University Vienna (2010) and the MSc. in Protection, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments, Aristotle University (2016). Earned her doctorate from University of Thessaly’s Architecture Department (2022). Her research focuses on architecture and urban development mechanisms of the 20thc. Participated in teaching teams of architecture design classes in University of Cyprus, University of Thessaly, and Aristotle University and in design teams of architectural competitions with distinctions. Her research and architecture projects were presented at conferences and exhibitions.
Vassilis Colonas
Vassilis Colonas graduate of the Department of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he pursued postgraduate studies in Paris in the fields of Art History, Museology and Conservation of Historical Monuments. From 2002 till 2022 professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. From December 2022, professor Emeritus of the same department. Main contributor and scientific manager of Greek and European research programs related to the study and research of the History of architecture (19th and 20th centuries) in Greece and the countries of the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. He has worked as a researcher and taught at universities in the USA, Canada and France. Member of the international scientific committee of EAUH (European Association of Urban History, 2012-2022). He is the author of 8 monographs.
Tonia Carless
Tonia Carless has been Associate Professor of Architecture at Umeå University Sweden School of Architecture and Senior Lecturer at the University of The West of England Bristol School of Architecture. She has publications on uneven development and the production of social space, architectural representation and trans-disciplinary approaches to visual and architectural research and design.
