Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves

Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves - Arch & Urbanist, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor. Joana´s interests in environmental design have led her to the involvement with research, teaching and practice focusing on the applicability of innovative technical knowledge and design methods in creative architectural and urban design solutions for various geo-political and socioeconomic contexts. Her international professional background in environmental design of buildings and cities involves teaching, research and professional work with well-known institutions in Brazil, USA and UK, including Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP), the Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Harvard; Architectural Association Graduate School, University of Westminster and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in London; University of Nottingham and University of Cambridge; and the UN Environmental Programme in Geneva. Joana graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1993. As a young practicing architect, she worked in Oscar Niemeyer´s office, in Rio de Janeiro, between 1993 and 1995. In 1996 she was awarded her Master’s degree in Environment and Energy from the AA Graduate School in London and in 2003 she earned her PhD degree from FAUUSP, where she has been teaching and researching, at undergraduate and graduate progremmes since 1998. Between 2009 and 2013 Joana Gonçalves joined the teaching staff of the Environment and Energy Programme at AA Graduate School, where she contributes as a visiting lecturer and reviewer, since 2013. Currently, in addition to her contribution to the AA-TS, she also contributes to the MSc Programme in Architecture and Environmental Design of the University of Westminster in London. Joana is the author of a number publications including the book The Environmental Performance of Tall Buildings (2010) with Earthscan, London; she was one of the coordinators of the Buildings’ chapter in the UNEP Green Economy Report (2011). She was co-author and organizer of Edificio Ambiental (2015), by Oficina de Textos, São Paulo. More recently, she contributed to various technical publications, including Buildings for Extreme Environments: Tropical (2017), organized by CIBSE. She is also the author of more than 50 scientific articles. "Revealing the thermal environmental quality of the high-density residential tall building from the Brazilian bioclimatic modernism: the case-study of Copan building", in: Energy and Buildings (2018), is one the most recent publications. In FAUUSP, Joana has coordinated a number of research projects, including the international collaboration between the University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham and FAUUSP, São Paulo, entitled Re-inhabiting the City: bringing new life to city centres of emerging economies in a changing climate: The case of São Paulo (2017 – 2018). Her experience in the field of environmental design led to Joana head the consultancy team of the expansion of the Petrobras Research Centre, in Rio de Janeiro, the largest environmental design project of its decade in Brazil, completed in 2012, among other consultancy projects in Brazil since then. In 2017, Joana was made Director of the international, non-profitable organization Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA).