Carlos Eduardo Comas

Carlos Eduardo Comas studied architecture in Porto Alegre (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania) and Paris (Université de Paris- VIII). His doctoral dissertation is titled “Précisions brésiliennes sur un état passé de l'architecture et l'urbanisme modernes, d'après les projets et ouvrages de Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, MMM Roberto, Affonso Reidy, Jorge Moreira & cie., 1936-45.” He is Professor Emeritus at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, a member of the permanent faculty of its Graduate Program in Architecture, editor of the Program's journal ARQTEXTO and a councillor of IPHAN- Instituto do Patrimônio Artístico e Histórico Nacional. A former president of DOCOMOMO Brazil, as well as of ANPARQ- Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Arquitetura, he was a guest curator of the Museum of Modern Art of New York 2015 exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture, 1955-80. Besides participating in several architectural competitions and building a few residential structures, he has written and lectured extensively on Modern Architecture and Urbanism both in his native country and abroad, editing and contributing to several books, catalogs, and journals.