FACULTY
Gonçalo Furtado
Gonçalo M. Furtado C. Lopes is an architect and a prolific writer on architecture, design and cultural studies. He has given lectures in Europe, EUA and South America., and he is the author of books such as “Notes on the space of digital technique” (Oporto: Mimesis, 2002), “Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable bodies (Oporto: Mimesis, 2004), “Off fourm: Postglobal city and marginal design discourses” (Bogota: Pei, 2004), “Interferencias: Conformação, implementação e futuro da cultura digital” (Oporto, 2005), “The construction of the critical project” (Bogota: Pei, 2005), “Architecture: machine and body” (Oporto: FaupEditorial, 2006; organized with Rui Braz.), “Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer” (Forthcoming).Gonçalo realized a PhD in history and theory of architeture at the University College of London; it focuses on the encounters of the British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. He currently teaches at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, and he is often invited by other institutions.