Formal Methods in Architecture / Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (PDF)

author of one book and co-editor of three volumes and two special issues. He is also the author of more than twenty book chapters and more than twenty-five papers published nationally and abroad.




Franklim Morais is a Portuguese civil and electronic engineer, Ph.D. professor and researcher. He was the leader of development teams of private commercial software for scientific applications: pioneering, in the early 1980s, the use of finite element methods for structural engineering on microcomputing; and since the early 1990s, developing COTS private hardware and software systems for smart buildings, urban spaces and cities. He is an invited professor in ESAP (Arts University of Porto) Architectural Course since 2001. He participates in LIAD, an academic research team, in a group dedicated to Formal Methods in Architecture. A major achievement is the production of DepthSpace3D and SCAVATools, digital tools for space syntax analysis. Since 1991, he participated in the organization (scientific and operational committees) of 12 conferences on his scientific fields of interest, including the 2 symposia of the series "Formal Methods in Architecture" (since 2011). Since 1987, he has produced several conference papers and journal articles, being co-editor of three books on Formal Methods in Architecture.Jorge Vieira Vaz Architect (FA Uni. Porto, Portugal, 1990), master's in urban Renovation (Poznan Uni. Tech, Poland, 1995), DEA in Composición Arquitectónica (Uni. Valladolid, Spain, 2002), is a teacher of Construction and Technologies in the Master Course in Architecture at ESAP (Porto, since 1993). He is a teacher and co-coordinator of "Bim Coordination" postgraduated studies programme at ISEP (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto) since 2019. He was a teacher at Coimbra University (Civil Engineering Department), Aveiro University (Communication and Art Department), ARCA/ETACoimbra (Architecture Course) and at High Institute of Administrative and Informational Sciences of Aveiro (Public Administration Course). He was a M.Sc. Thesis supervisor and jury member in several institutions (Minho University, Gallaecia University, Aveiro University and ESAPorto). He develops his professional activity as architect since 1991 and at AAVV (Portugal and Bonaire, since 2000) is a certified expert in building thermal behaviour (ADENE, since 2008) and is BIM/VDCPM-Building Information Modelling/Virtual Design and Construction Project Manager (since 2005). He was co-founder of IERU-Institute of Regional and Urban Studies at University of Coimbra and was a researcher at MEREC Project-Managing Energy and Resources in Efficient Cities (Tennessee Valley Authority/CCRC/FLAD, Coimbra) and at RECITE/REBUILD Network Programme-Renewable Energies for Buildings in European Historical Centers, (European Commission-DGXVII); nowadays, he develops his research activity in Formal Methodologies in Architectural Design and Construction, namely BIM (Building Information Modelling), parametric design, ontologies and taxonomy, at LIAD/ESAP- Architecture and Design Research Laboratory. He co-developed "DepthSpace 3D" digital tool, for three-dimensional spatial syntactic analyses (LIAD/ESAP) now a full-functional digital application in space syntax (SS), granted by EU founds. He is a (co)founder and chair of the International Symposium Formal Methods in Architecture, since 1st edition. He was a guest co-editor of the Special Issue "Formalizing Urban Methodologies" (Urban Science Journal, 2018) and was a co-editor of the books: Formal Methods in Architecture and Urbanism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), Formal Methods in Architecture (Springer, 2021) and Formal Methods in Architecture and Urbanism II (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021).