João Paulo Cardielos

João Paulo Cardielos is an architect and assistant professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra, where completed PhD in 2009. Was coordinator of the Integrated Master in Architecture between 2009 and 2013.  Research interests focus on architecture and urban design, with a particular focus on the relationship between urban project and landscape construction. Through the design of territorial strategies, implemented in urban acupunctures and scales of detail, has built a critical look into how anthropisation, having been largely indifferent to the environmental condition, should today claim the responsibility to rearticulate a new dialogue between architectural culture, eco-efficiency and sustainable development. He was the coordinator of the ‘Learning with Travel’ Project, which resulted in the homonymous conferences and editions of the books ‘Viagem à América’ and ‘De Volta à Viagem’. He is the scientific coordinator, since 2018, of the SENZEB Project — Serra da Estrela NZEB — which promotes the eco-efficient rehabilitation of some of the vacant built heritage, existing in the historic centre of the city of Gouveia, with a view to implementing high environmental performance residences at controlled costs. The teaching programmes that, over the years, has conducted under the motto Territory and Landscape, with Design Studio students of the integrated Master's degree in architecture, focus on hybrid territories located in the Central Region of Portugal, and promote sensitivity and discovery of the complex geographies and local cultures that must justify and inspire all architecture. In fact, these are the realities that provide the act of designing with the condition of a powerful instrument for the reinvention of landscapes, which are now deeply humanized, with a view to designing a more environmentally friendly, equitable and prosperous future.