Hugo Nazareth Fernandes holds a degree in Architecture (1996), and a Master’s degree in Theory of Architecture (2003) by Lusíada University, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Urban Planning by ULHT – Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal (2010).
He is an associate professor at the Integrated Master in Architecture course at ISMAT – Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, and an assistant professor at the Integrated Master in Architecture course in ULHT. He is a guest professor at EAC-École Supérieure d’Architecture de Casablanca, Morocco.
Fernandes develops his research activity in the fields of Architectural Design and Urban Planning.
He was awarded the second prize ICAR-CORA 2011. This prize, awarded by ICAR-International Council for Architectural Research, acknowledges the quality of PhD thesis in Architecture.
Fernandes has organized and attended several seminars and conferences. He has been publishing his scientific research since 2005, and he has his own architectural practice since 1999.
Publications
- António Varela o Legado do Invisível, Editora Caleidoscópio, Colecção “Pensar Arquitectura”, Lisboa, 2013 [monograph, 280 pp.], ISBN: 978-989-658-225-8 [adaptation of the doctoral thesis of homonymous title. ICAR-CORA 2011 2nd Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in Architecture, related to the four-year period 2007/2010 – International Council for Architectural Research – ICAR-CORA PRIZE 2011 for Best Doctoral Thesis].
- Pensamento clássico e mediterranismo na modernidade da “arquitectura do sul”: ideologias e movimentos artísticos na génese da cultura europeia do Século XX, in Dispersos 3, ISMAT, 2016 [scientific article, 10 pp., a publicar].
- Em Busca de Luz, Ar e Claridade – Dos largos telheiros industriais ao modernismo do século XX – Alguns contributos para uma História da Indústria de Conservas de Peixe em Portugal, in De Pé Sobre a Terra. Estudos sobre a Indústria, o Trabalho e o Movimento Operário em Portugal, Universidade Popular do Porto [scientific article, 23 pp.], Porto, 2013, ISBN: 978-989-981-70-1-2
- António Varela o Legado do Invisível – Composição, traçado e simbólica de um arquitecto à sombra de gigantes, in Palcos de Arquitectura, Vol. II, Lisboa, AEAULP – Academia de Escolas de Arquitectura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa, 2012 [scientific article, 12 pp.], ISBN: 978-972-9346-27-9.
- Conforto, optimização energética e potencial arquitectónico (with Luis Morgado, Ph. D./ M. Arch), in Archi News, nº 5, de Maio/Junho 2005 [journal article, 8 pp.].
