Alex de Carvalho Matos

PhD student in History and Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo - FAUUSP. Master in Theory and History of Architecture and Urbanism from IAU-USP, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, where he developed research with a FAPESP scholarship entitled "Critical historiography and design discourse in contemporary Brazil: 1980-2010 ". He was a USP Exchange Fellow at the Faculty of Architecture (Delft University of Technology-NETHERLANDS). He worked as an educator in Art History and Architectural Aesthetics at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo and its Annex Praça das Artes. He is currently part of the technical staff of the Dean of Planning at the Federal University of São Paulo-PROPLAN, where he is part of the team responsible for implementing the Institute of Cities. He was a member of the Study Group on Contemporary Aesthetics-USP and the URBIS of the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism-USP São Carlos, where he developed research on the relationship between Modern Design, Avant-garde and Otherness. Currently, he is linked to the Culture, Architecture and City Research Group in Latin America (CACAL-USP / CNPq), with which he is developing a doctorate on the relationship between Latin American avant-gardes, otherness and coloniality at the beginning of the 20th century. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)