Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges: Proceedings of the Eaae Arcc 10th International Conference (Eaae Arcc 2016), 15-18 June 2016, L (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138029668)

Manuel Couceiro Da Costa received his PhD in Architecture / Visual Communication in 1993 at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon - FAUL. He is associate professor at FAUL, and has worked at an architectural practice since he was a student in 1971. After collaborations with several renowned portuguese ateliers he created his own, Arquétipo Atelier, in 1981. Manuel started his academic and research careers, in 1978, in both ESBAL/FAUL and Lusíada University / Lisbon (1986-2001). He was Dean of FAUL from 2010 to 2012. He has presented lectures in several conferences and universities.
Currently Manuel is an European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) Council Member, President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Association of Drawing and Geometry Professors (APROGED), a representative of FAUL at the Building Portuguese Technological Platform (PTPC), and researcher at the Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD) / FAUL and chairman of the EAAE/ARCC International Conference - Lisbon 2016.

Filipa Roseta is architect, author and co-editor in the fields of Architecture and Urban design, focusing on modernity, sustainability, and the changing nature of the Academy. She is Auxiliary Professor of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon and researcher at CIAUD (Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design). Previous academic experience includes: PhD at the Royal College of Art (2009) with the thesis "The Modern Avenue", supported by Gulbenkian Foundation research grant, and MPhil in Contemporary Architectural Culture at FAUTL (2001).

Joana Pestana Lages is an urban researcher at CIAUD - University of Lisbon. Since 2002 she works as an architect, freelance or for other offices, namely dRMM Architects in London, or Renzo Piano Workshop in Genoa. She is a doctoral candidate in Urbanism. Her research focuses the challenges of urban interventions on self-produced places in the search for spatial justice. She is a member of GESTUAL, an action-research group focused on the Right to The City.

Susana Couceiro Da Costa is master architect (2007, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon - FAUL). Since then she works mainly as an architect for Portuguese, architectural offices, covering the fields of architecture, urbanism and building. Her research approach focuses in the use of cork applied to architecture.