New Zealand – SILVIA TAVARES

SILVIA TAVARES

What is the shape of your world?

Image by James Cheshire (http://spatial.ly/2013/05/great-world-flight-paths-map/)

I started 2014 in Brazil, my native land. As many times in previous visits I heard my family, friends and acquaintances highlighting the fact that New Zealand is far away. Read more…

About Dr Silvia Tavares

Urban designer with a background in architecture, urbanism, and building and city science. Brazilian national. Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Town Planning at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Affiliate member of PIA and registered architect and urbanist in Brazil.

Passionate about interfaces between urbanism, landscape and architecture. Interested in providing evidence through research to produce public open spaces that are thermally comfortable and economically effective, while promoting the good health of users and the natural environments that surround them.

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All opinions and points of view expressed in this website are my own and do not reflect employer or colleagues' opinions.