Conference by Marta Sequeira: 'Le Corbusier e as casas dos monges brancos' | Aulas de Autor . Le Corbusier e o Desenho

24 March, 2017, 4h00 pm, Convento de Monchique, Porto

Marta Sequeira, Professor at the University of Évora and Invited Professor at the Faculty of Architecture - University of Lisbon (FAUL), is the guest speaker for the third session of the cycle of conferences 'Aulas de Autor . Aulas de Autor . Le Corbusier and the Drawing'.

This third conference, entitled 'Le Corbusier e as casas dos monges brancos', will take place on 24 March 2017, 4h00 pm, at Convento de Monchique, Porto.

The conference will be conducted in Portuguese, without translation.
Free entrance (up to the room's capacity). The programme is subject to change.

Access to the Convent through the Calçada de Monchique (geographical coordinates: 41.144776, -8.623837).



Marta Sequeira
Marta Sequeira was born in Lisbon in 1977. She holds a professional degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon (2001) and a PhD in Architectural Projects from the School of Architecture of the Barcelona Technical College (2008) with a thesis about Le Corbusier’s public spaces after World War II – that has won the University Texts in Human Sciences Competition (granted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) and the ICAR-CORA Prize for the best doctoral thesis (granted by the International Council for Research in Architecture). Since 2008 she has been an associate professor at the University of Évora, and between 2011 and 2012 she was Head of the Department of Architecture at the same university. She presently lectures at the Faculty of Architecture in the University of Lisbon. She has been invited to speak and publish worldwide, including countries like Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Lithuania, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and the United States of America. She has recently won the Prix de la Recherche Patiente, granted by the Fondation Le Corbusier.

Aulas de Autor . Le Corbusier and the Drawing
The second cycle of classes entitled "Le Corbusier and the Drawing", taking place during this academic year 2016-2017, aims to develop a new relationship between universities, RDT (research and Technological Development) Institutions and Foundations.
In this first year, a partnership with Fondation Le Corbusier was settled in order to bring to the Portuguese and Porto scenario the international debate on Corbusian studies and on drawing in Le Corbusier, in particular.

A series of seven open classes will take place between January and July of 2017, dedicated to the theoretical and practical study of the Drawing in the work of Le Corbusier. 

The conferences feature as guest speakers: Danièle Pauly, Timothy Benton, Marta Sequeira, Candela Suárez, Jorge Torres, Xavier Monteys and Ricardo Daza. This cycle of open classes "Aulas de Autor" "Le Corbusier and the Drawing" is coordinated by Marta Sequeira, Carlos Machado e Moura, Rui Neto and Noémia Herdade Gomes.

This cycle is developed by the research group Architecture: Theory, Project and History (ATPH)of the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU-FAUP)- within the project ‘Coleção de Desenhos . Escola de Arquitectura do Porto’, – , in collaboration with UPdigital (UPdigital), Faculties of Arts (FLUP) and Engineering U.Porto (FEUP), José Marques da Silva Foundation Institute (FIMS), Northern Chapter of the Portuguese Order of Architects (OASRN) and Sistema do Futuro – Multimédia, Gestão e Arte.

Supports
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) | Compete 2020 | Portugal 2020 | União Europeia (UE) - Fundo Europeu do Desenvolvimento Regional.

This conference has the support of Bloom Porto.

The cycle of conferences counts with the support of Livraria A+A and Livraria AEFAUP.

Graphic design by Francisco Providência.
Multimedia developed by Cátia Cunha Pimentel.

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