Designing in Times of Crisis

Designing in Times of Crisis offers insights, visions, and strategies for architects and urban designers to question and respond to the crises and challenges of the contemporary anthropocentric world.

Jorge Cruz Pinto is a Portuguese architect and visual artist. He is currently a Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was president of the Scientific Council, former head of the Architectural Design Department, and founder and former president of the CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design. He was also an invited professor at La Sapienza Università di Roma and at the Facoltà di Architettura di Matera. Pinto's publications include several books and scientific articles about architecture, aesthetics, architectural design works, and art works, namely para-architectures. Ljiljana -avi- is a Serbian architect and Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, where she earned her doctoral degree in 2018. She holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade. She is a member of CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design and the architecture + design/drawing + art + project + theory/technology (ADAPT) group. Her research focuses on UrbArch Emptiness and the immaterial qualities of urban-architectural spaces. She is the co-author of Solid and Convex Voids, an analytic and representational method intended for investigating the unbuilt parts of urban-architectural spaces. Hugo Lopes Farias is a Portuguese architect and a Professor in Architectural Design at the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching since 1997. He has been the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Architecture since 2018, and the Architecture Cluster of CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design since 2021. His research focuses on the architecture of dwelling across multiple scales, aiming to develop adequate, accessible, diverse, and higher-quality housing solutions for both the present and the future. Luis Miguel Ginja is a Portuguese architect with a PhD from the Lisbon School of Architecture. He is an integrated researcher at CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design and has coordinated the WATer project - Water, Architecture and Territory - since 2022, and participated in other research projects on territory and city subjects. He was an invited Assistant Professor for the Industrial Design course at the Universidade da Beira Interior. His research primarily explores design themes, with a focus on the relationship between the body and space, the hand and the design process, and the interaction between the city and the territory.

List of figures List of tables List of maps List of contributors Preface Acknowledgment Introduction Part 1: Envisioning Chapter 1. From Solid Do Liquid Contemporary Architecture: A Crisis of Space and Time Jorge David Morales Alvear Chapter 2. Hacking Into Green Deal Neighbourhoods with City Ethics and Fundamental Human Rights Alexander Matthias Gerner Chapter 3. Project For the Environment: The Architecture of the Seven Elements Jorge Cruz Pinto Chapter 4. Rehearsals Of Shared Encounters for Improvising a Public Square Alexander Matthias Gerner, Ljiljana -avi- Chapter 5. Social Housing Projects in Brazil: Analytical Potentialities Fabiano Sobreira, Maria Schulz Chapter 6. One Piece of The Environmental Puzzle - The Relationship Between Architectural Practice And Climate Change Juliane Freire, Paulo Pereira Almeida Part 2: Applying Chapter 7. Self-Construction with a Modular System of Small Wood Components and Gender Equity Alanis Larissa Fernandes Boganika Chapter 8. Experimentation with Building Techniques Using Earth in Professional Training: A Path for the Architecture of Response Ana Valéria Soares Nunes, Ingrid Gomes Braga, Taynah Machado Pacifico de Sousa Chapter 9. House, Body, And Windows: Space-Time Interferences During the Covid-19 Quarantine Paula Gabbi Polli, Fabiana Ferreira Carvalho, Michele Baruffaldi Chapter 10. Children's Mobility in the City: The Attachment to the Urban Environment as Formation for Citizenship in Quixadá, Brazil Diego Freire Martins, Verônica Maria Fernandes de Lima Chapter 11. Teaching-Learning Spaces in Architecture and Urban Planning: A Challenge in Time Lucimeire Pessoa de Lima, Helena Aparecida Ayoub Silva Chapter 12. Adapt Cube - Conceptual and Material Narratives Jorge Cruz Pinto, Ljiljana -avi- Index