OFFICIAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
Senior
adviser for the Mozambican Minister for Public Works and Housing on
matters of housing policy, human settlements, planning, training and
institution building. 1975-77
National
Director of Housing in charge of regional and urban planning, housing
and social equipment. Also in charge of training programs for basic
and medium level rural and urban planning technicians. The National
Directorate of Housing covered the entire country through a network
of ten provincial offices with a staff of approximately 350. 1977-83
Secretary
of State for Physical Planning in charge of the National Institute for
Physical Planning with all the above responsibilities as a member of
the government in addition to the responsibility of directing the National
Directorate for Geography and Cadastral Registration. 1983-86
Member
of the Parliament 1977-86
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Mozambique's
Chief of Delegation to the U.N." Habitat Conference," Vancouver,
Canada 1977
Mozambique's delegate to the UNEP study tour to the people's Republic
of China 1978
Mozambique's official representative for Habitat-UNCHS 1978-86
Mozambique's official representative for UNEP 1978-86
Mozambique's focal point for the "International
Year of the Shelter for the Homeless" 1985-86
Member of the "Technical Council" of the Ministry of Construction
and Water Affairs 1987
Member of the “Technical Council” of the Maputo City Council
1993
Member of the Academic Council of the Eduardo Mondlane University 1993
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Director,
Faculty of Architecture and Physical
Planning, U.E.M. Maputo, Mozambique 1990 to present
Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1988
Graduate School of Fine Arts,Department of Fall 1986
Architecture Fall 1987
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University "La Sapienza,"
Rome, Italy 1986
Research Associate, Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia,
Venice, Italy 1986
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture,University of Mozambique
1985 to present
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Mozambique
1977-79
Visiting Critic, Faculty of Architecture, University of Cape Town, South
Africa 1974/89/90
Member of the Technical Council of theMaputo Town Council 1993
External examiner - Faculty of Architecture Universityof Cape Town .S.A.
1994/95/96/
LECTURES,
JURIES, PANELS
Lectures
in Portugal, Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa and Italy on housing,
architecture and physical planning issues.
Lectures
in Italy primarily concerning professional practice and its relationship
with the issues of modern architecture and the training of architects
in Africa.
Lectures
the Universities of Lund andStockholm, including a lecture to the Swedish
Institute of Architects.
Lectures
at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture at the City college of New
York Nov. 1987
Lecture
and Seminar at the Graduate Program in Architecture, University of Toronto,
Canada. Nov. 1987
Lecture
at the National Association of Norwegian
Architects, Oslo, Norway Nov. 1987
Lecture
at the CEPT - Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology. Ahmedabad.
India Jul. 1988
Lectures
at the Faculty of Architecture of Bergen
and Oslo. Norway Mar. 1990
Lecture
as main speaker at the Roros Meeting.
Roros - Norway Mar. 1990
Main
speaker at the Congress of South African
Architects Mar. 1991
Member
of the jury to award the First Prize for Architecture, Harare, Zimbabwe
(period from 198O to 1988) 1988
Consultant
for SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency) for the establishment
ofurban and regional planners training system for Zimbabwe 1987
Member
of the jury to award the prizes for the architectural competition for
a government agency in Harare - Zimbabwe 1986
Consultant
for NORAD for the rehabilitation of theFisheries School,Maputo ,Mozambique
1991
AWARDS
Ralph
and Ruth Erskine Foundation Stipendium: "inrecognition of outstanding
achievements in harmony with the objetives of the foundation" Oct.
1989
Awarded
the Italian Star of Solidarity commended by the
the President of the Italian Republic Dec. 2001
ARTICLES
AND PUBLICATIONS
"
Research Needs and Priorities in Housing and
Construction in Mozambique," Habitat International,
Vol. 9, N°. 2, 1985, pp. 65-72.
"
Transformazione e Politica Urbana in Mozambico," in Il
Territorio da Construire, Pianificazione Urbana e
Territoriale in Africa, Antonio Jatta, ed. Dedalo:
Bari, 1985, pp. 29-33.
"
Technologie per lo sviluppo: Africa," With M. Garano and P. Ramundo,
Ente Fiera di Bologna, 1986,pp. 125-131.
"
La pianificazione fisica nel Mozambico independente," in "Da
Lourenço Marques a Maputo - La riconversione della citta coloniale
pra ideologia e politiche urbana," anthology edited by G. Ferracuti,
Franco Angeli Libri,
Milano, Italy, 1987.
Resume
of a paper given at Bordeaux, France in 1986 in"Valorisation et
Restitution des Recherdies Urbainesdans le Tiers Monde," ed. by
INTER URBA, Tiers Monde, CNRS - ORSTOM, 1987.
Paper.
“O desenvolvimento Urbano em Moçambique, ou De Quem É
a Cidade? (“Urban development in Mozambique or to Whom does the
City Belong?”). Comunication to the“workshop on the methodological
basis for the study of the population growth tendencies in Mozambique’s
cities”. U.E.M. May 1992
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