Teacher
Isabel Clara Neves

Resume

Isabel Clara Neves (Porto, 1980) has a degree in Architecture from the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) (2004), a Master's degree in Modern and Contemporary Architectural Culture from Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa (FAUL) (2009), and a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture from Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa (FAUL) (2015). Since her Master's research she has been exploring the theory of modern and contemporary architecture from a technological perspective, identifying and reflecting on some of the cultural, historical and technological contexts that have influenced the emergence of computational practices in architecture. At the moment she is developing a Postdoctoral research at the Pennsylvania State University College of Arts and Architecture, Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (CES) and Centro de Estudos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (CEAU/FAUP), with the support of a fellowship by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), with the thesis "Construction of a Computational Perspective in Architecture. The Portuguese Counterpoint". She was the founder of "NEXUS", an interdisciplinary architecture research magazine, and has published articles in several magazines and books including "Casa International Magazine", "Mesa" book "Eduardo Souto Moura - 30 years, selected projects", "Swissport'09 catalogue", "TRENDS", "ROOF magazine", "Revista de Partes", "Plataforma Radar", "Archdaily", and "LAMAG" magazine. She has written and presented papers for conferences and scientific journals such as "eCAADe", "CAADRIA", "SIGraDI", "PARC", "JOURNAL IJAC" and "xCoAx", and was a guest speaker in events and conferences such as "Campus Ultzama 2012", "Iberian Architecture - Reencuentros e Tallers", "Arquibio", and "Estratégia Urbana". She also has coordinated and organized events such as "DIGITALDARQ _ Encounters with the Past and Future of Architecture", "SwissPort'09 Conference", "MESA", and "Future Traditions". She worked in Eduardo Souto Moura's office from 2006 to 2010, taught a course "Industrial Design" at the Master's at the Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Tecnologia (IPCA), in 2011-2016, at Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) in 2018, and is an invited assistant professor at Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) since 2016. Since 2014, she has been research thesis supervisor, as well as being scientific committee member for conferences like "ON THE SURFACE: PHOTOGRAPHY ON ARCHITECTURE - Visual Spaces of Change: unveiling the publicness of urban space" and scientific reviewer for academic journals like "Sophia Journal", among others. She won the 13ª edição do Prémio Fernando Távora (13th edition of Fernando Távora Prize) in 2018, winning a travel grant for a research trip with the proposal "Computational Cultural Stories in Architecture", a construction of a critical vision on the influence of computational technology in architecture. This research was presented publicly in a ceremony held in Matosinhos city hall. She was a curator for "Porto Design Biennale 2019" event, within which she coordinated the "Black Box - Stories of the Future" cycle of talks, with guest speakers Mario Carpo, Fabio Gramazio, Areti Markopoulou and Georg Vrachliotis. A conference/debate on digital culture that promoted a critical perspective on the influence of computational technology on architecture and design. She is an editor for the event's book, with a selection of exclusive texts from the guests, including first-time published Walter Gropius and Christopher Alexander's articles from 1964. Her last publication was the "Scientific Approach to Architecture's Project" (2019) book about digital culture in architecture, published with the Ordem dos Arquitectos Secção Regional Norte (OASRN) support. She was a scientific coordinator and organizer of "Computational Culture in Architecture: The Portuguese Counterpoint" seminar at CEA.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  PhD in Theory and History of Architecture
• Mestrado
  Master Degree in Architecture
• Licenciatura
  Bachelor Degree in Architecture
• Pós-doutoramento
  Postdoctoral in Theory and History of Architecture with the supervision of Professor Doctor Jorge Figueira, Professor Doctor João Pedro Xavier and Professor Doctor José Pinto Duarte.
• Bachelor
  Bachelor in Architecture (Erasmus Programme)

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2023-11, A Emergência do Projeto Computacional em Arquitectura / The Emergence of Computational Design in Architecture, Jornal Arquitectos
• 2023-09, Mapping: The emergence of Computational Design in Architecture, J-A Jornal arquitectos
• 2023-09, "Mapeamento da Arquitetura Digital", J-A Jornal arquitectos
• 2019-06, O Digital na Arquitectura?, Revista de Partes - Perspectiva
• 2019-04, La Construcción de la Identidad. Algunos Colores de la Escuela de Oporto, Revista de Partes, Coimbra
• 2017, A Cultura Digital na Arquitetura - Porquê a História do Futuro?, Trends
• 2016-04, Entrevista com Eduardo Souto de Moura, PLI Arte & Design n.º6 "Design after Design", Matosinhos
• 2015-07, Entrevista com Eduardo Souto de Moura, Plataforma Digital Vitruvius, São Paulo
• 2012-11, The Reinvention of Tradition, Casa International Magazine, Beijing
• 2012-11, Entrevista Eduardo Souto de Moura, Casa Internacional Magazine, Beijing
• 2010, Tate Modern _ Museu De Londres _ Delícia do Mundo, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2010, Sicília Sumptuosa, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2009, Palais de Tokyo _ Sobreposição de Tempos, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2009, Melbourne Oasis Cultural _ Federation Square, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2008, Varanasi _ Cidade da Luz, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2008, Nova Iorque _ A Cidade Inacabada e os seus Processos de Devir, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2008, Luanda Esperança Colectiva e Informalidade Urbana, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2007, Rio de Janeiro, "Lugar Luminoso" entre o Mar e a Montanha, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2007, Entrevistas com Fernanda Fragateiro, Marta de Menezes, José Bragança de Miranda, Vera Mantero, Marcos Cruz, Pedro Gadanho and João Urbano, NEXUS 00 - 7 Entrevistas
• 2007, A Berlim Reinventada _ Mitte, Novo Centro de Fusão, LA MAG urban culture magazine, Lisboa
• 2006, Transmutações_ Registos Híbridos de Arte e Arquitetura, Águas Furtadas, Porto

Journal issue

• Utopia, 1
• Digital Culture. What's Next?

Journal article

• 2024-12, Urban Resilience Facing Climate Change Challenges: the case of Mozambique Island’s World Heritage. , Journal Heritage Volume 8; Special Issue Cultural Heritage as a Contributor to Territorial/Urban Resilience.
• 2024-12, 20th Century World Built Heritage Facing Water: Conservation of Fallingwater and Boa Nova Tea House., Buildings Journal.
• 2024-01-06, Sensitive Mediations of Inhabiting the City : The Participatory Design and its Role in the History of Social Housing Programmes, Sophia Journal. Architecture, Art and Image
• 2023-12, "Sensitive mediations of inhabiting the city: the participatory design and its role in the history of social housing programes", Jornal of Architectural Culture - Joelho
• 2023-07-13, Digital Culture. A Plea for a Critical Future, Joelho Revista de Cultura Arquitectonica
• 2021, From the Contemporary European Practices - Digital Processes on Architectural Design and Urban Planning in the Nineties, Sustainability Journal, Special Issue "Urban Legacies of the Late 20th Century"
• 2021, About Conscious Innovation and Inclusive Participation in Built Environment. Ideas from the 70s, Practices of Contemporary Age, Scopio International Architecture, Art, Image and Innovation Magazine, Porto
• 2020-12, Architecture and the Computer - Archaeology of an Emerging Future, International Journal of Architectural Computing - Special Issue for eCAADe SIGraDi "Architecture in the Age of the 4th Revolution"
• 2015-03, The Contribution of Horst Rittel to the Scientific approach to Design at the Beginning of the Computational Era, Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Construção (PARC), Campinas.
• 2014-03, Computational Design Research in Architecture: The Legacy of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), Liverpool.

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2015-09, PhD, Abordagem Científica ao Projeto numa Perspetiva Computacional da Arquitetura: A Hochschule für Gestaltung-Ulm
• 2009, Master, Aproximações da Arquitetura à Biologia. Levantamento Interpretativo de Experimentações Contemporâneas
• 2004, Degree, Transmutações entre Arte e Arquitetura: um Cadáver Esquisito

Book

• 2020, "Uma Perspectiva Computacional na Arquitetura: Entrevistas" (A Computational Perspective in Architecture: Interviews), Neves, Isabel Clara, Caleidoscópio; Universidade de Lisboa (UA); Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design (CIAUD)
• 2020, "Uma Perspectiva Computacional na Arquitectura: A Escola de Ulm" (A Computational Perspective in Architecture: the Hochschule fur Gestaltung of Ulm), Neves, Isabel Clara, Caleidoscópio; Universidade de Lisboa (UA); Centro de Investigação em Arquitectura, Urbanismo e Design (CIAUD)
• 2019, "Abordagem Científica ao Projecto de Arquitetura. Desde as Racionalidades Modernas. Entre Europa e Estados Unidos da América"", Neves, Isabel Clara, Ordem dos Arquitectos Secção Regional Norte
• 2007, "NEXUS 00: 7 Entrevistas - Práticas Interdisciplinares", Neves, Isabel Clara; Rangel, Mafalda; Natária, Sara

Book chapter

• 2021, Classroom Space: Between Tradition and Innovation, Livro de Resumos do 14.º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da U.PORTO , 1, Universidade do Porto (UP), Porto
• 2021, A Integração dos Meios Digitais no Espaço Escolar: Experiências Educacionais Inovadoras, Conference Proceedings EDUNOVATIC 2021 - 6th Virtual International Conference on Education, Innovation and ICT, Adaya Press
• 2021, A Cultura Computacional na Arquitetura - Notas para a Arqueologia de um Futuro Emergente, Jornadas Didácticas 2021: Livro de Resumos, APROGED (Geometry and Drawing Teachers Association)
• 2012, Challenge and Service: Architecture, Information and Beauty, La Belleza: Reto y Servicio, Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad
• 2011, Os Deuses dentro, Eduardo Souto Moura 30 anos, projectos selecionados, Caleidoscópio

Edited book

• 2023, 0, 1, U.Porto Press.
• 2019, ESAD idea, Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) - ESAD IDEA
• 2009, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP)| École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
• 2007, Nexus 00

Conference paper

• The Legacy of the Hochschule Für Gestaltung of Ulm for Computational Design Research in Architecture, 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)
• The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence Applied to Architecture and Design. The Portuguese Counterpoint, 1950-1970, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information
• The Contribution of Tomás Maldonado to the Scientific Approach to Design in the Beginning of Computational Era. The Case of the HfG of Ulm., Future Traditions - 1st eCAADe Regional International Workshop
• Scientific Approach to the Project in a Computational Perspective of Architecture: The Hochschule für Gestaltung-Ulm, XIX - Congresso da Sociedade Ibero-americana de Gráfica Digital (SIGRADI)
• Arquitetura e Biologia e Processos Digitais, ArquiBIO 2010 Conferences
• Aproximações da Arquitectura à Biologia: Levantamento Interpretativo de Experimentações Contemporâneas, XIII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi)
• 2024-01-01, Methodologies and Strategic Guidelines in Digital Processes to Conscious Innovation and Inclusive Participation in Built Environment, DESIGN COMMIT 2024
• 2021-12, "Conscious Innovation and Inclusive Participation in Design Processes - Contemporary European Case Studies", Paper presented in Sigradi 2021 - Ubiquitous Conference (XXV International Conference of the Ibero-Americam Society of Digital Graphics)
• 2021-07, Digital Processes to Conscious Innovation and Inclusive Participation in Built Environment- The Portuguese Counterpoint, DigitalFUTURES-CDRF 2021: The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021)
• 2021-05-06, Desafios do Digital na Investigação e Ensino de Arquitetura, Encontros_2021 - Ensino e Investigação em Arquitetura
• 2021, Architecture and the Computer Utopias from the 50s, Practices of Contemporary Age, 21st Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe - Utopian Possibilities: Knowledge, Happiness & Wellbeing
• 2018-07-12, The Emergence of Computational Design Research and Education a Technical-Scientific Approach, 1950-1970, 6th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx)
• 2015-11, Abordagem Científica ao Projecto no Início da Era Computacional – Hochschule fur Gestaltung of Ulm e a sua Diáspora, XIX - Congresso da Sociedade Ibero-americana de Gráfica Digital
• 'The contribution of Horst to Scientific Approach to Design since the Beginning of Computational Era', Paper present in '50 Years Wicked International online symposium on design theory'

Conference abstract

• 2020, Architecture and the Computer - Archeology of an Emerging Future (abstract accepted), 54th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
• 2018, The Emergence of Computational Design Research and Education: Three Technical-Scientific Contexts, 1950-1970 (abstract accepted), CAADRIA2018
• 2011, Biology Approximations in Architecture (abstract accepted), International Symposium on Algorithmic Design for Architecture and Urban Design (ALGODE)

Patent

• Casa do Pinheiro. Bagunte. Project Author.

Licensing patent rights

• Reabilitation of Duas Casas Unifamiliares, Leiria
• Reabilitation of Casa Unifamiliar, Coimbra
• Moradia Unifamiliar, Mindelo
• Moradia Unifamiliar, Lamego
• Moradia Unifamiliar nas Antas, Porto
• Edifício "DrySuit" de Ginásio, Figueira da Foz
• Architecture Project CoAuthor with Jorge Bártolo
• Architecture Project CoAuthor with Camilo Rebelo