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SILVIA TAVARES

Landscape architecture in Brazil and New Zealand

Banks Peninsula, Christchurch, New Zealand

I have recently co-authored a conference paper with Glauco Cocozza. The paper compares the teaching of landscape architecture in Brazil and New Zealand, and made me revive some thoughts and impressions that I had and have about the profession. Read more…

An elegant Cardboard Cathedral

My latest post-earthquake passion is a world’s first of its kind. The new Christchurch Cardboard Cathedral opened to the public on 6 August. The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is responsible for the beautiful, elegant and innovative design of this new ‘temporary’ architecture. Read more…

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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