Author Biography
Pedro Leão Neto (Porto, 1962) is an architect who graduated from the University of Porto (FAUP, 1992). He holds a master's degree in Urban Planning and Design (FAUP-FEUP, 1992), a Ph.D. in Planning and Landscape (University of Manchester, 2002), and completed post-doctoral research on the Mapping of Documentary and Artistic Photography: A Contemporary Perspective on Architecture and Reference Spaces in Porto (FAUP, 2018), under the guidance of Jorge Figueira and José Maças de Carvalho. He has been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto since 2002, where he leads the research group in Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI), the SCOPIO editions, and the SCOPIO network platform. He is also the director of the Cultural Association Cityscopio (2010), coordinator of the AAi2Lab project, and the CONTRAST project – a network of multidisciplinary artistic initiatives in Art, Architecture, Design, and Photography involving direct participation from ten Higher Education institutions in Photography. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Scientific Research and Technological Development (IC&DT) project Visual Spaces of Change (VSC) reference POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030605. His teaching activities have focused on curricular units such as Architecture, City, and Territory Photography (FACT) and Photography and Project Communication (CAAD) I and II since 2007. Under the Erasmus+ program, he has taught at the Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura of the University of Zaragoza (EINA-UZ) and the Liverpool School of Architecture (LSA). In the Teacher Performance Evaluation from 2008 to 2018, he consistently received "Excellent" ratings. His research in Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI) utilizes Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for research dissemination and collaborative work, particularly in teaching. He has published and edited over 30 books and approximately 100 scientific articles, with 120 Google Scholar citations. Notable among his publications are 3 SCOPUS articles with 14 citations as the sole author and 1 article as the lead author. He has been the responsible investigator for 5 research projects funded by competitive grants, curated 5 international conferences with blind peer-reviewed proceedings published, curated 25 exhibitions, and organized 10 international competitions. He has also participated in 93 juries, 20 scientific committees, and 16 invited lectures, some of which were held at various European universities. Notable curatorial projects include the exhibitions "A Different Perspective on Álvaro Siza Vieira's Works" at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Unizar, 2019) and at the Order of Architects, Northern Regional Section (OASRN, 2019), "The Thin Line" (Museum of Archaeology D. Diogo de Sousa - Encontros de Imagem, 2015), and the 4th International scopio Photography Competition (University of Liverpool & RIBA, London, 2015). His projects include AAI: Dueto/Duelo, a series of debates as part of the Dual project (DGARTES, 2015 | 2016), VSC - Visual Spaces of Change (FCT), and the coordination (Editor-in-chief) of FAUP's first indexed scientific journal, Sophia Journal: Architecture, Art, and Image. After editing "Photographs in the Works of Eduardo Souto Moura" (2015) and "A Talk on Architecture in Photography" (2017), he published "Another Approach on the Works of Álvar" (2021). Currently, he is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the VSC project, focused on creating a network of public and collective spaces capable of catalyzing emerging dynamics of urban change in the Porto Metropolitan Region. In 1998, he received the PRAXIS XXI award, FCT 1998 fellowship, and in 2013, he was awarded the Jens Drup E-Learning Award, EUNIS, for the implementation of the E-Learning Café project and program at the University of Porto, of which he was one of the key leaders, responsible for coordinating the conception and construction of the E-Learning Café| EN/PT: https://pedrole.academia.edu
