Ricardo Bianca de Mello

Doctor of Science from FAU-USP. Currently (2025-) serving as Technical Sales Manager at Autodesk in Brazil, where he works since 2010, and a member of the e-DAU network of architects, urban planners, and designers (2019-). Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from FAU-USP (1997-2001), he holds a Master of Science degree in Architectural Design (2004-2007) and a Doctor of Science degree in Design, Space, and Culture (2020-2024), both from the same institution. As an architect and urban planner, he has been dedicated to developing various projects in the fields of building, urbanism, and design through his own firm (VIA6B Architecture and Design Studio) and in partnership with other architects in Brazil and abroad. During his undergraduate studies, he was a FAPESP scholarship holder in the Construction Systems Laboratory (LABSISCON) at FAU-USP, and after graduation, he contributed to the Technology Research Center in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (NUTAU-USP). He also worked in consulting, judicial expertise, instruction, structural engineering offices, and construction companies. In 2010, he joined Autodesk Brazil, a leading technology development company for design projects, where he now serves as a senior specialist in Building Information Modeling (BIM). An advanced technology expert and user for project development, he has been working with BIM since 2004, when he began developing his projects in Revit, and since then, he has been responsible for coordinating or supporting the adoption of this methodology in various companies. Since 2009, he has been part of the ABNT Special Studies Committee 134, which has been developing Brazilian standards for BIM. He represents Autodesk in the BIM Forum Brazil and other initiatives and partnerships to promote BIM in the Brazilian market. In addition to studying methodologies and technologies for project development, he dedicates himself to research in architectural theory and art language, having specialized in phenomenology and architectural semiotics, as well as in the field of religious architecture. He is the author of "The Culture of Belief: A Reflection on Symbolic Space and Symbolism in Religious Architecture". Alongside his research in architecture and art, he also has interests and research in philosophy and religion, dedicating himself to the study of comparative religion and Western esotericism. He has been a volunteer communicator and instructor in these areas since 2004 and holds theological education and priestly and episcopal consecrations in various Gnostic and Orthodox Christian lines, with intense community involvement. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)