The Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism – PPGAU of the Federal University of Paraíba – UFPB began its activities in May 2008, with a master's degree course approved by CAPES, supported by the research production of the Departments of Architecture and Urbanism, Production Engineering, Civil Engineering, History and Geography. Currently, the Master's and Doctorate courses in Architecture and Urbanism are aimed at Architects, Urban Planners, Engineers, Designers and professionals from related fields.

The general objective is to offer advanced training to professionals, researchers and teachers, qualifying them for teaching, research and practice in the area of ​​Architecture and Urbanism. The emphasis of the research has been on establishing critical approaches that contemplate an integrated vision of the various fields of knowledge that involve the design of Architecture and Urbanism, according to their Lines of Research.

The Doctoral Course was created in 2014, with approval from CAPES, and was accompanied by a restructuring of its areas of concentration and lines of research.

Currently, the only area of ​​concentration is Architecture and City: Process and Product, in which – avoiding divisions into specific areas of knowledge – it deals with the object [architectural and urban] as a constitutive part of a complex process of conception, materialization and appropriation. What defines its specificity are the different analytical approaches required by the different scales and problems:

- configurational;
- historical;
- political-economic;
- environmental;
- socio-spatial;
- imagery;
- cultural;
- technical and technological.

Articulated from one of its three lines of research:

LINE 1 - Production and appropriation of the building and the city: to study the forms of production of the city and the building from various possibilities of analysis – morphological, historical, political-economic, environmental and socio-spatial – and appropriation of their spaces – with a focus on heritage, imagery and cultural issues.

Coordination: Prof. Ivan Cavalcanti
Vice-coordination: Prof. Marcele Trigueiro

LINE 2 - Design of the building and the city – Aims to study the project in its various scales (urbanistic or architectural), seeking this knowledge from its configurational analysis associated with the observation of the processes of conception and appropriation, with an emphasis on sociocultural, historical, historiographical, symbolic aspects, and, on the other hand, the analytical fields linked to information technology, processes, methods and design techniques.

Coordination: Prof. Lucy Donegan
Vice-coordinator: Prof. Carlos Nome

LINE 3 - Quality of the built environment - Aims to evaluate and analyze the built environment and its physical-spatial and usage components, with particular emphasis on design quality and issues of comfort (thermal, lighting, acoustic and ergonomic) and environment (bioclimatization), sustainability, mobility, accessibility, form, uses, technology and construction materials.

Coordinator: Prof. Ana Negrão
Vice-coordinator: Prof. Mauro Normando Macedo Barros Filho

In the last four-year evaluation by CAPES Brazil in 2021, PPGAU-UFPB raised the course grade, obtaining a grade 5 [0-7] in Architecture and Urbanism for master's and doctorate degrees.

COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PPGAU UFPB:

Germana Costa Rocha - General Coordinator
Felipe Tavares da Silva - Vice-General Coordinator

Representation of Permanent Professors:

José Augusto Ribeiro da Silveira
Ana Gomes Negrão
Ivan Cavalcanti Filho
Lucy Donegan
Francisco de Assis da Costa

Representation of Collaborating Professors:

Cristiana Maria Sobral Griz (tenured) and
Carolina Silva Oukawa (alternate).

Representation of Master's Students:

Gabriel de Oliveira Madruga (tenured) and
Lívia de Olivieria Pereira (alternate).

Representation of Doctoral Students:

Jullyanne Ferreira de Souza (tenured) and
Francisco Allyson Barboza Silva (alternate).

Representation of Administrative Technicians:

Alinildo Ferreira de Pontes (incumbent) and
Rodrigo Maximino Borba Costa (alternate).

 

 

OFFICE:

Alinildo Ferreira de Pontes
Rodrigo Maximino Borba Costa

Customer Service - https://atendimento.ct.ufpb.br/index.php?category=30&a=add

Hours [Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.]

Phone: 3216-7913

 

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