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Introduction
She has a degree in Architecture (FAUP, 2003) and a PhD in Civil Eng. (FEUP, 2015) from the University of Porto (UP). She collaborated with Souto de Moura (2001-2002) and Brandão Costa (2004-2007) while developing her practice. She was Invited Assistant at FEUP (2010-2012) and Assistant Professor at Lusíada University (2016-2017). She worked at DomusSocial EM in Porto (2017-2022). Since 2022, she has been an Invited Assistant Professor at FAUP, responsible for the Architectural Theory II course.
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Current institution
Additional affiliations
February 2017 - August 2022
DomusSocial EM
Position
- Project Manager
September 2016 - July 2017
Universidade Lusíada - Norte
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
February 2012 - August 2012
Position
- Assistant
Description
- Unidade curricular de Arquitetura, 2º ano do Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Civil (aulas práticas)
Education
January 2008 - August 2014
University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering
Field of study
October 1996 - November 2003
University of Porto, Faculty of Architecture
Field of study
- Architecture
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Publications (9)
In the 1950s a ten-year municipal plan (and its subsequent five-year extension) set off the construction of many public housing complexes in Porto to solve the need for housing, as industrialization phenomena had caused relevant migration to cities. These housing settlements (near half of the current total public housing in Porto), despite their ca...
The concern with public health triggered by the massive migration towards the main urban centres in the wake of the industrialization process leads to the first public interventions on housing in the early 20th century. The role of the State as housing provider increases with the formation of the social welfare state after the Great Depression. The...
In the 1950s a ten-year municipal plan set off the construction of many public housing complexes in Porto to solve the need for housing, as industrialization phenomena had caused relevant migration to cities. These housing settlements (near half of the current public housing in Porto), despite their careful urban design, do not present nowadays sat...
This paper proposes a critical analysis of the intervention, over time, in the housing estates built under the Improvement Plan for the city of Porto. This plan enabled the construction of a significant number of dwellings within a limited period of time, promoting a broad and impactful urban and social restructuring of the city in the mid-twentiet...
The published texts result from the teaching experience in the Theory 2 course of the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture (MArq) at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in the 2023/2024 academic year. The ten essays are a possible sample of the diversity of responses to the individual exercise, having reached a high...
Globalization, competitiveness and the current world economy require an increasing capacity to fulfill ever rising levels of excellence and demand. Faced with such challenge, Construction has to strive for constant improvement in its quality, optimizing the cost/benefit relation with fairness and justice, safeguarding both the comfort and the digni...
