Formal Methods in Architecture

Plácido Lizancos Mora is a Spanish architect (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1988) and Masters of Architecture for African Development (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2009). As a senior professor, he teaches architectonic analysis and basic habitability at Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of Universidade da Coruña (ETSAC) since 1993. He has also taught as a visitor in PUCMM in the Dominican Republic; ENA in Rabat, Morocco; and UEM Mozambique and USB in Venezuela. As a researcher, he approaches using analytical tools to address social issues of architecture, producing many publications in this field and managing several research projects, some of them in a joint venture with Architecture Sanz Frontiers. He is also committed to managing educational institutions in various positions.




David Leite Viana is a post-doc. in Urban Morphology/Civil Engineering (FEUP, 2015), Ph.D. in Urban and Spatial Planning (IUU-UVa, 2008), DEA in Modern City and Architecture (UVa, 2005), and Dipl. Arch. (ESAP, 1999). He is the head of the Urban Planning Division at Matosinhos Municipality, a professor in the Integrated Master Programme on Architecture and Urbanism at UPT, an invited professor in the Master Programme on Geographic Information Systems Applied to Spatial Planning, Urbanism and Landscape at UPV, PhD supervisor in the doctorate programme on Architecture for the Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at Iscte, an external reviewer at Chalmers University of Technology (Architecture and Urban Design Programme), a researcher at CEAU-FAUP, a visiting scholar in the Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage at NTU, and a visiting fellow in the Architecture & City Group at TU Delft (Theories of Architecture Fellowship Program). He is a co-founder and co-chair of the International Symposium Formal Methods in Architecture, PNUM Scientific Councillor and editorial board member of the journal "Revista de Morfologia Urbana". He is the