SPEAKERS

Marcos L. Rosa 

Marcos L. Rosa is an architect and urban planner (Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo na Universidade de São Paulo, 2005). He received with the highest honours (Suma cum laude) the title of Doctor by the Technical University of Munich in Regional Planning and urban design (2015). In 2015, he received his Doctoral degree with the highest honours from the Technical University in Munich, later published in open format in January 2016 by the TUM, and registered the German National Library. For his PhD, he received one of the full “High level scholarships for young professionals and postgraduate students from Latin America” from the European Union (through the Alßan program).

He has taught at the Technical University Munich (TUM), at the Federal Swiss Institute in Zurich (ETH) and at the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo. He has created and directed platforms of collaborative mapping in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (2008-2013) - together with the Urban Age and its award, the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award (Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft e London School of Economics) - and at the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH), between 2010 and 2011. Among his publications are the books "Microplanning, urban creative practice", published in 2011, "Handmade Urbanism", published in 2013 and "From Large Scale Infrastructures to a Network Urbanism" (Munich, 2016, TUM). He has several published articles and has lectured widely, participated in critics, examining boards and workshops worldwide. His work includes research, teaching and design, with focus in collaborative work, the editing of existing structures and the redevelopment of existing structures and situations.

http://marcoslrosa.com/

Leandro Madrazo 

Leandro Madrazo is professor at the School of Architecture La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, where he has been head of the "ARC Architecture Representation Computation" research group since its creation in 1999. He has coordinated the PhD program "Representation, Knowledge, Architecture" from 2002 to 2009. He graduated in architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1984, and studied later as Fulbright scholar in the Master of Architecture programs of Harvard University and at the University of California Los Angeles, where he obtained the Master’s degree in 1988. From 1990 to 1999 he carried out his teaching and research work at the Department of Architecture and CAAD at ETH Zürich, completing his PhD thesis "The concept of type in architecture. An inquiry into the nature of architectural form" in 1995.

His pedagogic research activity focuses on the conception, development and application of new educational instruments and methods in the teaching of architecture as a result of the integration of information technologies in different areas of the study programme: representation, design and theory. Some examples of this pedagogic work are SDR Systems of Representation taught at Arquitectura La Salle since the academic year 1999/2000, as well as the courses created in his time at the ETH Zurich: STRUCTURES taught in the graduate program from 1996 to 1999, KEYWORDS in the undergraduate program from 1992 to 1995, and PRINCIPIA in undergraduate courses between 1990 and 1996.

His architectural research work spans across different areas: energy efficiency, component-based design and construction, housing, space representation, and form generation process. A common denominator in the different research works is the development of innovative applications to exploit the potential of ICT in architecture. He has coordinated the European project SEMANCO funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union (2011-2014), and the project REPENER funded by the Spanish National R + D + I plan  (2010-2013). It has also led the group of La Salle-URL which has participated as a partner in the project IntUBE funded by the 7th Framework Programme (2008-2011). Among others, he has coordinated the European projects OIKODOMOS (2007-2011), and HOUSING@21.EU (2003-2006) funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme and the project BARCODE HOUSING SYSTEM, funded by the Spanish National R+ D + I plan (2005-2009). Currently, he is coordinating the European project OIKONET, financed by the Lifelong Learning program. He has published widely in international conferences and journals.

http://arc.salleurl.edu

Stefan van der Spek, tuDelft

Stefan Van Der Spek is the Associate Professor of Urban Design and Director of  Geomatics for the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology. Geomatics is a relatively new science concerned with the acquisition, management, processing, analysis and visualisation of geographic data with the aim of gaining knowledge and better understanding of the built and natural environments. The three main fields he covers are: Urban Fabriques – (Dynamics of the city, Public Space and Vital City Centers), Intermodal Transfer Points – the design of terminals and (railway)station areas and Sensing the City – the application of tracking technologies in cities, districts and buildings, extended by other sensors. This field is a continuation of ‘Urbanism on Track’, a group he initiated with Jeroen van Schaick in 2007. Stefan's goal is to apply knowledge from Geomatics and develop tools for Urban Design. In his methods he uses  evidence-based design: integration of traditional mapping and dynamic user data. Users play a central role in his approach.

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