Catarina Ruivo

Catarina Ruivo holds an MS in Architecture from Porto’s University and a Ph.D. in Architecture, design and computation from Lisbon’s University, with a visiting period at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Her research has focused on state-subsidised housing and its relationship with urban development.
Her thesis, “Design Paradigms in Porto's Public and Cooperative Housing: a systemic approach grounded on spatial analysis”, explored the articulation of quantitative methods of spatial analysis with the sociological and historiographic aspects of architectural research as a means of illuminating the spatial forms of political, social and economic processes.

She has experience in organising and coordinating international workshops and symposia and has, for the last 6 years, collaborated with the research group Formal Methods in Architecture (ESAP, Porto).

She has co-founded Concinnitas CRL, a non-profit company in the fields of digital services, architecture, urbanism, and (e)planning.

LNEC

LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering) is a public institute of Science and Technology (S&T), with the status of State Laboratory that carries out research in all fields of civil engineering, giving it a unique multidisciplinary perspective.

In its field of expertise, LNEC is a national asset which guides its activity towards public service values, embedded in a culture that appeals to high standards of ethics, impartiality and trustworthiness. Continuous investment in innovation, in the improvement and dissemination of Knowledge has enabled an adequate response to the constant evolution of Science and Technology.

Created in 1946 with an international vocation, its reputation soon crossed borders and LNEC has worked in all continents, continuing, for more than six decades now, to honour the name of Portugal.