Zeuler
R. M. S. Lima, Ph.D.
Zeuler
R. M. A. Lima is an architect and associate professor in architecture history-theory
and design at the College and Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design
at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA. He teaches in the school’s graduate
and undergraduate programs, co-teaches the winter Florence studio, and directs
the summer Architecture Study Abroad Program.
He holds a Professional Diploma, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Architecture
and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and a Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the Humanities from Columbia University, where he co-taught seminars
on urban cultures and globalization with Prof. Andreas Huyssen.
Dr. Lima also taught and did research in design and theory at the University
of Sao Paulo (1988-96) and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1997-99).
As an architect, he co-directed a design office in Sao Paulo between 1989 and
1996, and won several public architecture and landscape architecture competitions
and awards in Brazil, including a government building currently under construction
on the Mall in Brasilia.
As an academic, he has participated in several design studio reviews, presented
papers in conferences, and given lectures in North-American and Brazilian universities
about his architectural work as well as his research.
His writings are about North-American and Brazilian cities and architecture,
from the viewpoint of their cultural and public dimensions. He is currently
developing a book project about modernism and the work of Italian-Brazilian
architect Lina Bo Bardi, for which he has received the 2007 International Bruno
Zevi Prize for architectural history and criticism.
He also practices drawing, painting and printmaking.
Publications in "Wolkenkuckucksheim –
Cloud-Cuckoo-Land –
Vozdushnyi zamok":
zlima[at]wustl.edu