Designing in Times of Crisis

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 Čavić 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 figuresList of tablesList of mapsList of contributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentIntroductionPart 1: EnvisioningChapter 1. From Solid Do Liquid Contemporary Architecture: A Crisis of Space and TimeJorge David Morales AlvearChapter 2. Hacking Into Green Deal Neighbourhoods with City Ethics and Fundamental Human RightsAlexander Matthias GernerChapter 3. Project For the Environment: The Architecture of the Seven ElementsJorge Cruz PintoChapter 4. Rehearsals Of Shared Encounters for Improvising a Public SquareAlexander Matthias Gerner, Ljiljana ČavićChapter 5. Social Housing Projects in Brazil: Analytical PotentialitiesFabiano Sobreira, Maria SchulzChapter 6. One Piece of The Environmental Puzzle - The Relationship Between Architectural Practice And Climate ChangeJuliane Freire, Paulo Pereira AlmeidaPart 2: ApplyingChapter 7. Self-Construction with a Modular System of Small Wood Components and Gender EquityAlanis Larissa Fernandes BoganikaChapter 8. Experimentation with Building Techniques Using Earth in Professional Training: A Path for the Architecture of ResponseAna Valéria Soares Nunes, Ingrid Gomes Braga, Taynah Machado Pacifico de SousaChapter 9. House, Body, And Windows: Space-Time Interferences During the Covid-19 QuarantinePaula Gabbi Polli, Fabiana Ferreira Carvalho, Michele BaruffaldiChapter 10. Children's Mobility in the City: The Attachment to the Urban Environment as Formation for Citizenship in Quixadá, BrazilDiego Freire Martins, Verônica Maria Fernandes de LimaChapter 11. Teaching-Learning Spaces in Architecture and Urban Planning: A Challenge in TimeLucimeire Pessoa de Lima, Helena Aparecida Ayoub SilvaChapter 12. Adapt Cube – Conceptual and Material NarrativesJorge Cruz Pinto, Ljiljana ČavićIndex