José Pinto Duarte is the Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation and Director of the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC) at Penn State, USA. Duarte holds a professional degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon and after obtaining master’s and doctoral degrees from MIT on the mass customization of housing, he returned to Portugal where he helped launch technology-oriented architecture programs and digital fabrication labs. Duarte served as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon, as well as president of eCAADe, a European association devoted to education and research in computer-aided architectural design. Duarte’s work displays a record of uniting academic research and industry and fostering multi-national partnerships. He created the Design and Computation research group at the University of Lisbon, devoted to interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and helped establish the MIT–Portugal program. His research focuses on the use of computation and AI to support context-sensitive design across different scales. In 2008 he was awarded the TU Lisbon/Santander Prize for research excellence in architecture. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
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