Name: | João Pedro Sampaio Xavier |
Sigla: | JPSX |
Estado: | Active |
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0000-0003-0551-5292 |
Email Institucional: | jpxarq.up.pt |
Extensão Telefónica: | 5463 |
Telf.Alt.: | 220425463 |
Salas: | TG1.8 |
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Cargo | Data de Início |
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Dean | 2022-12-21 |
Member of the Scientific Board | 2018-09-06 |
Docente Responsável de Curso de Educação contínua Curso Livre de Geometria Descritiva | 2017-09-01 |
João Pedro Xavier is an architect and full professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (FAUP), where he received his degree in 1985, his Ph.D. in Architecture in 2005.
He worked in Álvaro Siza's office from 1986 to 1999. At the same time, he established his own practice as an architect.
Xavier is a member of CEAU’s research teams – Architecture: Theory, Project, History (ATPH) – and – Digital Fabrication Laboratory (DFL). The relationship between architecture and mathematics, especially perspective, is his main research interest. He is the author of the books Perspectiva, perspectiva acelerada e contraperspectiva (Perspective, accelerated perspective and retarded perspective) and Sobre as origens da perspectiva em Portugal (About the origins of perspective in Portugal). He has published several works and papers on the subject, given conferences and lectures and carried out teacher training activities.
He is correspondent editor of the “Nexus Network Journal”.