Architecture and
Urbanism Department PUC-Rio

Fernando Espósito Galarce

Fernando Espósito Galarce

Professor | Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program

Graduated in Architecture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (2001) and obtained a PhD from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona – Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2011). From 2001 to 2014, he was a professor at the School of Architecture and Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), Chile. Partner of the Cultural Corporation Amereida, Open City, a field of research and collective and experimental interventions. Between 2013 and 2015, he was a Visiting Professor (CEPG180/2012 notice) of the Postgraduate Program in Urbanism (PROURB) of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), collaborating in the Laboratory of Urbanism and Environment (LAURBAM). Since 2012, Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (DAU) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at DAU PUC-Rio and coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Architecture (PPGArq) at DAU. Coordinator of the Research Group Laboratory of Observation of the Inhabited Space (LObE-Hab), of PPGArq, PUC-Rio, registered in the DGP/CNPq. With a Postdoctoral degree (2020) at ETSAB, UPC, Barcelona (Spain), carried out with a scholarship from the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and Carolina Foundation. Collaborator of the Laboratory of Temporary Interventions and Tactical Urbanism (LABIT) of PROURB, UFRJ. Collaborator of the International Research Group in Architecture and Society (G.I.R.A.S.). Experience in teaching and research in the field of architecture and urbanism. Young Scientist of Our State, FAPERJ (2021-2025).

Courses

Publications

Articles

Residual spaces between architecture and infrastructure. The Complexo do Alemão cable car

Fernando Espósito Galarce
BITACORA URBANO TERRITORIAL
Articles

Rethinking the places of the new normality: design and construction of a space for reunion

Fernando Espósito Galarce
Cadernos do PROARQ (UFRJ)
Articles

La (des)caracterización del espacio público Residualidad urbana y estigmatización socio-espacial en São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro

Fernando Espósito Galarce
REVISTA PLANEO
Articles

Residual spaces of the Complexo do Alemão (RJ): from socio-spatial stigmatization to appropriation potential

Fernando Espósito Galarce
Rua (UNICAMP)
Articles

Las calzadas de las aguas de la ciudad abierta de Amereida

Fernando Espósito Galarce
Ediciones ARQ
Articles

La dialogía como un acto de interpretación arquitectónica

Fernando Espósito Galarce
ARQUITETURAREVISTA (UNISINOS)
Articles

Apropiación, uso y abandono de los espacios residuales provocados por el teleférico del Complexo do Alemão, Río de Janeiro

Fernando Espósito Galarce e Rachel Coutinho Marques da Silva
ARQUITETURAREVISTA (UNISINOS)
Articles

Ecovila como forma de vida alternativa : O movimento do século XXI para uma vida em mais equilíbrio com o meio ambiente e o ser humano

Fernando Espósito Galarce
ARQUITEXTOS
Articles

Arch-itectures. Inflatables as a Strategy for Interpreting the Place

Fernando Espósito Galarce
PRUMO
Articles

Citizen tactics for the activation of underutilized areas: the case of the community gardens in Rio de Janeiro

Fernando Espósito Galarce
ARQ URB
Articles

Landscapes Dominated by Infrastructure in Rio de Janeiro

Fernando Espósito Galarce
REVISTA PLANEO
Articles

Roughness in the Mapuche Space: Meanings in the Construction of Place

Fernando Espósito Galarce
Tríades em Revista
Articles

Public Security in Rio de Janeiro 2018: From Citizens to Suspects

Fernando Espósito Galarce
REVISTA PLANEO
Articles

The Architecture of Wine: Observations on Contemporary Chilean Architecture from the Perspective of Wine Architecture

Fernando Espósito Galarce
ARQUITEXTOS (SÃO PAULO)
Articles

City in Celebration: Holy Week in Seville

Fernando Espósito Galarce
REVISTA PLANEO
Articles

Workshops in Ciudad Abierta de Amereida

Fernando Espósito Galarce
Revista AUS 18
Articles

Inclusive City in Favelas: The Case of Complexo do Alemão in Post-Olympic Rio de Janeiro

Fernando Espósito Galarce
REVISTA PLANEO
Articles

El “afecto” en la arquitectura: La relación entre arquitecto, lugar y habitante en la experiencia contextual del proyecto

Fernando Espósito Galarce
ARQUITETURAREVISTA (UNISINOS)