João Marcos de Almeida Lopes

Full Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, IAU-USP, in São Carlos / SP, to which he has been linked since 1999, when it was still a Department of the School of Engineering of that USP campus. He has been an advisory professor in the Pos-Graduate Program of the IAU since January 2007 and it's coordinator since Jun 2022. He is a member of the Research Group on Housing and Sustainability - HABIS, of which he is one of the coordinators. He was Deputy Dean of Culture at the Cultural and Extension Department of the University of São Paulo between March 2014 and March 2016, working on programs and actions of articulation between teaching, research and extension. In the same period, he also responded by the direction of the Science Station, as deputy director of the organ. PhD in Philosophy and Methodology of Sciences by the Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy of the Federal University of São Carlos (2006) and Master in Architecture and Urbanism by the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism of the School of Engineering of São Carlos - University of São Paulo (1999), graduated as Architect and Urbanist from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo in 1982. He has been a regular lecturer in several higher education institutions since 1983, working mainly in Technology, Structures and Project teaching. Since the beginning of 2018, he has been a Research Producer in the CNPq category / level 2. He is an associate of the USINA Center for Work for the Inhabited Environment - of which he was general coordinator from 1990 to 2005, where he worked on projects and popular housing projects promoted by mutual aid and self-management, projects and works in precarious settlements, development of housing policies and programs, applied research and systems development. He has accumulated experience in the area of Architecture and Urbanism, particularly in Urban Structures, Projects and Construction, working mainly in the areas of popular housing, human settlements, self management, mutirão, building design, technique and technology, structural systems and structures analysis. ORCID bibliometric indicator: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9999-2473 (Source: Lattes Curriculum)