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IAAC is pleased to invite you to it´s public Lecture “The Ethics of f2f Processes” given by Maria Voyatzaki
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Free Entrance
IAAC Conference Hall, 20.00hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

Maria Voyatzaki
Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Building Technology
Maria Voyatzaki is associate professor of architectural design and building technology at the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) since 2001. Her PhD at the University of Bath, School of Architecture (1996) supervised by Dr. Chris Williams and Prof Ted Happold investigated the design process of non-standard architecture entitled ¨An Insight into the Design Process of Unconventional Structures¨. Her research and respective published work focuses on the integration of an idea and its materiality aiming at enhancing the quality of architecture through this integration.

She has taught for over 11 years in the United Kingdom and for a semester in Denmark (Aarhus School of Architecture). Between 1989-1991she worked in the research team of Bath University, UK on projects between the University of Bath led by Ted Happold, Buro Happold and Frei Otto. She works as a free launch architect in Greece. She has organised and participated in a great number of international student workshops and international conferences for architecture educators. She is the Coordinator of the European Network of Construction Teachers since 2001. She is also the coordinator of a number of European funded programmes on architectural education, with the most recent one being the two-year funded LifeLong Learning Multilateral Project, continuum: from the school lab to the factory workshop that investigates new pedagogic protocols for teaching students on a file-to-factory logic.

She has been a Council Member of the European Association for Architectural Education (2000-2007). She has lectured abroad and has sat at design juries around the world. She is a chartered architect and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

IaaC is pleased to invite you to it’s public lecture “Approaching Architectures in Sao Paulo – Choosing a Sustainable City Redevelopment Model” given by Carlos Leite
Friday, January 29th. 2010
Free Entrance
IaaC Conference Hall, 19:30hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

Carlos Leite
Principal of Leite+Brooke Arquitetos Urbanistos
Founder of CIC_SP: City Information Center, Sao Paulo [NGO]

Carlos Leite is an Architect and Urbanist with a Master and PhD in Urban Design from the University of Sao Paulo and a Posdoc from California Polytechnic University where he was a professor. He is a principal at Leite+Brooke Arquitetos Urbanistos in Sao Paulo. He also works as a Sustainable Development and Design consultant with public planning agencies, private developers and NGOs.

He is a professor at the School of Architecture, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at different schools in California, Canada and the Netherlands. His professional focus is to face new challenges abroad through academia and consultancy – from his broad and multidisciplinary achieved knowledge in Brazil and abroad in the last 15 years (more than 40 cities visited).