Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (1957), architect, space architect and urban planner works on neurosciences, neuroaesthetics (since 1985) and space-time cognition. Active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, of the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris (Gold Medal of the Academy in 2017), of the Architecture and Urban Planning Council of Brazil, of the Order of Architects of Portugal and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics among others. He is Awards Sector Chairman of the AIAA's Space Architecture Technical Committee. With more than eighty books published worldwide, he is present in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica, 1991, paper) among many others. In 1980 he coined the "virtual architecture" method, and in that same year he created the first virtual planet in history, anticipating Second Life in more than twenty years - for which he won an AICA, UNESCO, Council of Europe prize in 1993. He started researching and working on space architecture in 2000. In 2011 he created and directed a space architecture course at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, the first in the country and considered the second in the world. He is professor regularly invited by several institutions like the universities of New York, Georgetown, Tsukuba, Minho, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Monte Verità Foundation and the Technion Institute. His website, started in 1993, is www.emanuelpimenta.net