1st Edition
Designing in Times of Crisis Envisioning and Applying
List of Figures, Tables, and Map
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Envisioning
Chapter 1. From Solid to Liquid Contemporary Architecture: A Crisis of Space and Time
Jorge David Morales Alvear
Chapter 2. Hacking into Green Deal Neighbourhoods with City Ethics and Fundamental Human Rights
Alexander Matthias Gerner
Chapter 3. The Architecture of the Seven Elements: Project for the Environment
Jorge Cruz Pinto
Chapter 4. Rehearsals of Shared Encounters for Improvising a Public Square
Alexander Matthias Gerner and Ljiljana Čavić
Chapter 5. Social Housing Architectural Competitions in Brazil: Analytical Potentialities
Fabiano Sobreira and Maria Schulz
Chapter 6. One Piece of the Environmental Puzzle: The Relationship between Architectural Practice and Climate Change
Juliane Freire and Paulo Pereira Almeida
Part II Applying
Chapter 7. Modular System of Small Wood Components, Self-Built and Gender Equity
Alanis Larissa Fernandes Boganika
Chapter 8. Experimentation with Building Techniques Using Earth in Professional Training: A Path for the Architecture of Response
Ana Valéria Soares Nunes, Ingrid Gomes Braga, and Taynah Machado Pacifico de Sousa
Chapter 9. House, Body, and Windows: Space-Time Interferences during the COVID-19 Quarantine
Paula Gabbi Polli, Fabiana Ferreira Carvalho, and Michele Baruffaldi
Chapter 10. Children's Mobility in the City: The Attachment to the Urban Environment as Formation for Citizenship in Quixadá, Brazil
Diego Freire Martins and Verônica Maria Fernandes de Lima
Chapter 11. Teaching-learning Spaces in Architecture and Urban Planning: A Challenge in Time
Lucimeire Pessoa de Lima and Helena Aparecida Ayoub Silva
Chapter 12. Adapt Cube: Conceptual and Material Narratives
Jorge Cruz Pinto and Ljiljana Čavić
Index
Biography
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 Čavić 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.
