Doris Catharine Cornelie Knatz Kowaltowski

Doris Kowaltowski is an architect. She graduated with honors from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She obtained her Masters of Architecture and her PhD in Architecture from the University of California in Berkeley. In 1997 she defended her Free-Docent Degree in Architecture at UNICAMP and became a Full Professor in 2009 (University of Campinas, Brazil), where she has been a Faculty Member since 1989. After retirement she became a Collaborator at the School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Design of UNICAMP. She teaches in both the Civil Engineering and the Architecture Courses in Design disciplines. In the Graduate program she advises in the Architecture Program (ATC). She was for four years the Coordinator of the Architecture Course and for three years the associate director of the School. She has developed several research projects in the areas of: building design and environmental comfort, humanization of architecture, design methods, CAD and its influence on the creative process as well as design assistance for social interest. The major concerns in her recent studies are quality of life issues in the built environment, school building design, social housing and bio-climatic architecture. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)