João Cabeleira is an Architect and Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho (EAUM), being responsible for the courses of Geometry and Seminar 1C (History and Ucronia). Currently he is the director of the architecture master degree, coordinator of the group spacer_Lab2pt, member of the scientific council and of the pedagogical council of the EAUM. Holding a degree in Architecture (2002) and a Master degree in Methodologies of Intervention on the Architectural Heritage (2006), both granted by the Architecture Faculty of the University of Porto (FAUP), he concluded his PhD, at EAUM (2015), with the research entitled “Imaginary Architecture: Real and illusory space in Portuguese baroque” which looked into architecture and perspective treatises searching for intersections between projective science and architectural design.
From 2001 to 2008 collaborated in the architectural studio of António Madureira, participating in projects developed in partnership among António Madureira and Álvaro Siza. Simultaneously, developed his own projects and in 2005 collaborated with the publishing house DAFNE as coeditor. In 2002/2003 worked as Monitor of Project II course, at FAUP and since 2006 he works at EAUM.
Representation; Architectural Culture; Landscape; Patrimony; Spatial Illusion; Treatistics; Geometry, Perspective and Mathematics; Travel and Expeditions; Vedute, Panoramas and Cartography; Drawing Instruments; Sundials and Gnomonics;
Selected publications
Cabeleira, João. “Inácio Vieira: Optics and Perspective. Instruments towards a sensitive space” In Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics. Turim: Kim Williams Books, Birkhäuser, Vol. 13. Nº. 2, 2011. p.315-335 DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Experiencing architecture through baroque image: Gonçalves Sena, painted architecture as architectural space.” In The International Journal of the Image. Champaign, Illinois, USA: Common Ground Publishing LLC, Vol. I, 2011. p.119-134. DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Optical architecture. Interplay between perspective and space design” In Nexus Ph.D. Day Relations between Architecture and Mathematics. Milan: McGraw-Hill, 2012. p.137-142 DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Espaços de Representação do Espaço. O engano do olhar e a transformação do concreto” In Cadernos Mateus DOC IV – Representação/Representation. Vila Real: Instituto Internacional Casa de Mateus, 2013. p. 13-25. DOI
Cabeleira, João, “A reflexão patrimonial no contexto de formação em arquitectura”. In JOELHO 6. Coimbra, EDARQ, 2015. p. 122-127. DOI
Cabeleira, João; Xavier, João Pedro, “Projecting Quadratura image. Euclidean propositions and common practices at painter’s workshop”, In Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics. Turim: Kim Williams Books, Birkhäuser, Vol. 18. Nº. 2, 2016. p. 651-668. DOI
Cabeleira, João; “A Viagem de Cósimo III de Médicis. Imagem da cidade portuguesa de seiscentos, o caso de Santarém.” In Atas da 5ª Conferência Internacional da Rede Lusófona de Morfologia Urbana, PNUM 2016, Os Espaços da Morfologia Urbana, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Julho 15-16, 2016. Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho e Lab2PT Laboratório de Paisagens, Património e Território, Guimarães, 2016. p. 39-50. DOI
Cabeleira, João; “Amplifying reality through Quadratura. Contrappunto among corporeal and visual space.” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress, October 20-22, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. p. 71-76. DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Andrea Pozzo. Difusão científica e alinhamento do imaginário arquitectónico..” In Estudos Italianos. Lisboa: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Nº. 12, 2017. p.177-192. DOI
Other publications
Cabeleira, João. “Inácio Vieira: Optics and Perspective. Instruments towards a sensitive space” In Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics. Turim: Kim Williams Books, Birkhäuser, Vol. 13. Nº. 2, 2011. p.315-335 DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Experiencing architecture through baroque image: Gonçalves Sena, painted architecture as architectural space.” In The International Journal of the Image. Champaign, Illinois, USA: Common Ground Publishing LLC, Vol. I, 2011. p.119-134. DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Optical architecture. Interplay between perspective and space design” In Nexus Ph.D. Day Relations between Architecture and Mathematics. Milan: McGraw-Hill, 2012. p.137-142 DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Espaços de Representação do Espaço. O engano do olhar e a transformação do concreto” In Cadernos Mateus DOC IV – Representação/Representation. Vila Real: Instituto Internacional Casa de Mateus, 2013. p. 13-25. DOI
Cabeleira, João, “A reflexão patrimonial no contexto de formação em arquitectura”. In JOELHO 6. Coimbra, EDARQ, 2015. p. 122-127. DOI
Cabeleira, João; Xavier, João Pedro, “Projecting Quadratura image. Euclidean propositions and common practices at painter’s workshop”, In Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics. Turim: Kim Williams Books, Birkhäuser, Vol. 18. Nº. 2, 2016. p. 651-668. DOI
Cabeleira, João; “A Viagem de Cósimo III de Médicis. Imagem da cidade portuguesa de seiscentos, o caso de Santarém.” In Atas da 5ª Conferência Internacional da Rede Lusófona de Morfologia Urbana, PNUM 2016, Os Espaços da Morfologia Urbana, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Julho 15-16, 2016. Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho e Lab2PT Laboratório de Paisagens, Património e Território, Guimarães, 2016. p. 39-50. DOI
Cabeleira, João; “Amplifying reality through Quadratura. Contrappunto among corporeal and visual space.” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress, October 20-22, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016. p. 71-76. DOI
Cabeleira, João. “Andrea Pozzo. Difusão científica e alinhamento do imaginário arquitectónico..” In Estudos Italianos. Lisboa: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Nº. 12, 2017. p.177-192. DOI
2023/2024
Estudos Avançados em Cultura Arquitetónica
Doctoral Program
Geometria e Representação Digital
Bachelor
Laboratório de Investigação: Prova Final (Dissertação ou Trabalho de Projecto)
Integrated Master
Obrigatória 1C: Teorias e Tratadística
Integrated Master
Projeto II
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