Architecture and
Urbanism Department PUC-Rio

Otavio Leonidio

Otavio Leonidio

Professor

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism (USU, 1994) and a Ph.D. in History (PUC-Rio, 2005). He was a CNPq Postdoctoral Fellow Abroad/PDE at Stanford University (January-December 2012). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism and the Postgraduate Program in Architecture at PUC-Rio. He is also a collaborating professor in the Postgraduate Program in Social History of Culture in the Department of History at PUC-Rio. As a teacher and researcher, he works in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Social History of Culture, Theory and History of Art and Architecture. He is the author, among others, of “Carradas de Razões; Lucio Costa e a Arquitetura Moderna Brasileira” (Loyola/PUC-Rio, 2005), “Diálogos Supercríticos: Koolhaas, Eisenman e o Brasil” (CosacNaify, 2013, co-authored with Guilherme Lassance and Miguel Del Castilho), and “Espaço de Risco” (Romano Guerra, 2016). He is currently (March 2023-February 2024) undertaking a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at IFCS UFRJ.