Name: | Maria Clara de Carvalho Pimenta do Vale |
Sigla: | MCCPV |
Estado: | Active |
R-000-AR2 | |
0000-0003-3426-7304 | |
2212-F57F-2F49 | |
A-5695-2010 | |
57204039868 |
Email Institucional: | clara_valearq.up.pt |
Extensão Telefónica: | 5485 |
Telf.Alt.: | 220425485 |
Salas: | TE3.3 |
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Cargo | Data de Início |
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Continuing Education Coordinator | 2020-07-27 |
Advisor Training and Academic Organization | 2020-07-27 |
Member of the Executive Board | 2023-01-12 |
Docente Responsável de Curso de Educação contínua Arquitectura e Sociedade | 2022-01-01 |
Clara Pimenta do Vale (1967) is an Architect by University of Porto (1991), specialized in building physics and Portuguese 20th-century construction history. She holds a MSc in Building Construction by Faculty of Engineering (University of Porto 1999) and a PhD in Architecture with the thesis “An urban alignment in the construction of Porto – Boavista Axis (1927-1999) – Contribution to Portuguese Construction History in the Twentieth Century” (FAUP 2012).
Currently she is Associated Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and researcher at CEAU - Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism in the groups: Architecture, City and Territory Heritage (PACT) and Digital Fabrication Laboratory (DFL). She was a practitioner architect (1991-2004), and lecturer (1999-2012). She is also a photographer with several photo exhibitions.
Member of the Board of ‘Architects without Borders – Portugal’ (ASF-P), of ‘Portuguese Society for Studies on Construction History’ and Portuguese Association for the Urban Rehabilitation and Heritage Protection (APRUPP); Member of other national and international organizations (Construction History Society; ICOMO).
Research focus: Building Physics; Sustainability; 20th Century Construction History; Building Construction Legislation; Vernacular Architecture; Earthen Architecture; The social role of architecture; Emerging technologies applied to building construction; Rehabilitation and reuse; E-learning and ICT. Supervisor of 3 on-going Ph.D. theses and more than 50 Master's dissertations in Architecture (10 in progress). She is the co-author of four books and the author or co-author of more than fifty other publications.