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• Ruth Verde Zein +

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  Architect, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, FAU-USP, University de São Paulo, Brazil, 1977. Master (2000) and Doctorate (2005) in Theory, History and Critique, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, PROPAR-UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Post-doctoral studies at FAU-USP, 2008. PhD thesis on São Paulo Brutalist architecture of the 1950-70’s received the CAPES PRIZE 2006 for the best national doctoral thesis on architecture  (www.brutalistconnections.com). Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Design in Graduated and Post-Graduated Studios at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, since 1997. Member of CICA - International Committee of Architectural Critics, since 1985. Member of SAL - Latin America Seminars, 1986-1995. Member of the Scientific Committee, XIX Congress of the UIA, Barcelona 1996. Brazilian delegate for the Ibero-American Biennials, 2002-2008 and member of its Jury and Advisory Board, 2010-2012. Research partner on the investigation “Architecture and Identity”, held by the Technische Universität Berlin, Habitat Unit (2003-2004). Member of the advisory board and the International Jury of the Rogelio Salmona Latin American Architectural Prize (2013-17). Member of SAH – Society of Architectural Historians. Member of EAHN – European Architectural History Network. Member of the Editorial Board of Architecture Histories Journal. Member of DOCOMOMO Brazil and International since 1998, coordinator of Docomomo Brasil/São Paulo’s chapter (2015-17). Former collaborator, international editor and senior editor of Projeto magazine (1983-1997). Member of the editorial board and frequent contributor to that and to other Brazilian and Ibero-American magazines, as for example Vitruvius/ Arquitextos, Revista En Blanco (Spain), Revista Pós, ARQ (Chile). Permanent collaborator of Summa+ (Argentina). Has participated in several seminars, debates and given conferences and courses as visiting professor in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, Eslovenia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.

  Has more than a hundred articles published at Projeto, AU, Arquitextos (Brazil), Summa, Summarios, Summa+ (Argentina), ARS (Chile), Architecti (Portugal), A&V, Arquitectura Viva (Spain), Impulse (Canada), Spazio&Società (Italy), Arquine (Mexico), Platvorm (Netherlands), A+U, Tostem View (Japan), Architectural Record, Bomb, Harvard Design Magazine (USA).  Has several  books published as author or co-author, as for example, among others: “Arquitetura Brasileira Atual” (Projeto, São Paulo, 1989) “Nueva Arquitectura en America Latina: Presente y Futuro” (org. by A.Toca, Gustavo Gili, México, 1990). “America Latina - Gli Ultimi Vent’anni” (org. by Jorge Francisco Liernur, Electa, Milan, 1990). “O Lugar da Crítica. Ensaios Oportunos de Arquitetura” (Ed.Ritter+Proeditores, São Paulo, 2002). “Rosa Kliass: desenhando paisagens, moldando uma profissão” (Ed.Senac, São Paulo, 2006). “Arquitectos Iberoamericanos del Siglo XXI” (Fomento Banamex, México DF, 2006); “Three Moments of Oscar Niemeyer in São Paulo” (MCB, São Paulo, 2007), “Constructing Identity in Contemporary architecture” (2009, edited by Peter Herrle & Stephanus Schmitz);”Brasil: Arquiteturas após 1950” (Perspectiva, São Paulo, 2010, with Maria Alice Junqueira Bastos); “Non-West Modernist Past: on Architecture & Modernities (2012, edited by William S.W.Lim & Jiat-Hwee Chang); “Brutalist Connections: what it stands for” (Altamira Editorial, São Paulo, 2014); “Caleidoscópio concreto: fragmentos de Arquitetura Moderna em São Paulo” (org).  (Romano Guerra Editores, São Paulo, 2017); “Leituras Críticas”, (Romano Guerra Editores, São Paulo, 2018) and “Critical Readings” (Romano Guerra+ University of Austin, 2019 – Bruno Zevi CICA Award, 2020), and “Historiographical revisions: Modern Architecture in Brazil” (Rio de Janeiro: Riobooks, 2022).

  Link for complete academic CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8375309081976653

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