Cristina Verissimo

Plea Arq. Cristina Verissimo MSc. Arch. (Harvard University) Assistant Professor Practice Dal University Cristina Verissimo graduated in Architecture at the Faculdade de Arquitectura (FA-UTL) and has a MArchII Degree from GSD Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice at DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING since 2012. She taught architectural design studio at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon from 2002-2012. She has been invited as critic and lecturer to numerous international universities and countries such as: Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Cornell University in Ithaca and NY, USA; Arlington University, Texas, USA; Architectural University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; BAC in Boston (2002), at Hong Kong Chinese University, Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon amongst others. She also has an active professional practice CVDB Arquitectos with her long partner Diogo Burnay. The practice has been award with international architectural prices. She now started her Ph.D. where she planned to push further other possible uses of Cork material in architecture.