Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism

CEAU

Center for Studies
in Architecture and Urbanism

Vera Lúcia Viana Lopes

Vera Viana is a researcher in Centre of Studies of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (FAUP), since 2018, and Integrated member of CEAU since November 2020. She is the Director of Aproged (the Portuguese Geometry and Drawing Teachers' Association) since 2009. She has directed her teaching practices and research purposes toward the enhancement of mathematics education through advanced digital tools and 3D printing technology. Viana's research focuses on the transformative potential of digital culture in mathematics education and the intersections of computer science with geometry, polyhedral theory, structural morphology, the relationships between architecture and mathematics, and the history of mathematics. Viana authored a Ph.D. Thesis, book chapters, papers, lectures, courses, and online resources on these subjects. Co-Chair and Organizing Committee member of international events meant to disseminate scientific knowledge in multidisciplinary frameworks. Editor of peer-reviewed publications for scientific events published by Springer Nature (2020, 2022), the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (2022), and Aproged (2013-2021). Editorial Board member of the Nexus Network Journal. Descriptive Geometry Teacher (1993-2011) and author of schoolbooks (2013, 2014).

Identification

Degree
PhD
Category
Integrated Member
Join Year
2018
Citation Names
Vera Viana
Viana, Vera
Ciência ID
5913-8A35-2037
Ciência Vitae ID
5913-8A35-2037
Orcid ID
0000-0003-3589-8853
Researcher ID
AAI-9471-2020
Email
veraviana@veraviana.net
vlopes@arq.up.pt
Activity Domains
Exact Sciences - Mathematics
Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
Research Groups
Architecture: Theory, Project and History (100%)
Dedication (Research)
40%

Education

Concluded

Alemão (A1.1) - Curso Intensivo

Outros

19,0

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Concluded

Didáctica de Ciências e Tecnologia

Doutoramento

"APLICAÇÕES DIDÁCTICAS SOBRE POLIEDROS PARA O ENSINO DA GEOMETRIA"

Muito Bom | Very Good

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Concluded

Artes Plásticas - Pintura

Licenciatura

14

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Professional Career

Other Careers

Pessoal Docente - Carreiras e Categorias não revistas

Ministério da Educação

Professor do ensino básico e secundário

Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

President

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho)

Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Others

Integrated member

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Researcher

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Projects

Contract

Ongoing

Support for a 2nd research mission in Vienna to substantiate ongoing research on the history of science

Principal investigator

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

UIDB/00145/2020.6

Ongoing

Support for the participation in the 24th Scientific-Professional Colloquium on Geometry and Graphics (plenary lecture)

Researcher

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

UIDB/00145/2020.5

Concluded

Support for a 1st research mission in Vienna to substantiate ongoing research on the history of science

Principal investigator

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

UIDB/00145/2020.4

Ongoing

Support for the publication of an essay in the Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Researcher

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

UIDB/00145/2020.3

Concluded

Support for the participation in the Bridges Halifax 2023 Conference (paper presentation)

Researcher

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

UIDB/00145/2020.2

Outputs

Book

Published

Duas por Três 11: Geometria Descritiva, 11º ano: ensino secundário

Areal Editores

Viana, Vera

Portugal

https://www.arealeditores.pt/produtos/ficha/duas-por-tres-11-geometria-descritiva-a-11-o-ano-bp/15785506

isbn: 978-989-647-767-7

Published

Duas por Três 10: Geometria Descritiva, 10º ano: ensino secundário

Areal Editores

Viana, Vera

Portugal

https://www.arealeditores.pt/produtos/ficha/duas-por-tres-10-geometria-descritiva-a-10-o-ano-bp/15007857

isbn: 978-989-647-462-1

Book chapter

Published

Non-Uniform Polyhedra Described by Daniele Barbaro

Daniele Barbaro and the University of Padova, Springer Nature Switzerland: 109-137

Viana, Vera

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29483-9_6

issn: 2297-2951
issn: 2297-296X
isbn: 9783031294822
isbn: 9783031294839
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-29483-9_6

Published

An Introduction to Solid Tessellations with Students of Architecture.

Polyhedra and Beyond Selected Contributions from Geometrias’19, Porto, Portugal, September 05-07, Springer Nature

Xavier, João Pedro; Sousa, Jose Pedro; Alexandra Castro (3214-A512-B688); Viana, Vera

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99116-6_10

doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99116-6_10

Published

Interactive Expansion of Achiral Polyhedra

, Springer International Publishing: 1116-1128

Viana, Vera; Xavier, João Pedro; Aires, Ana Paula; Campos, Helena. Corresponding author: Viana, Vera

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95588-9_96

doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-95588-9_96
isbn: 97888-6493-044-2

Conference abstract

Published

Archimedean solids known in the 15th and 16th centuries
24th Scientific-Professional Colloquium on Geometry and Graphics Senj, 1–5 September 2024

Senj , Croatia

Vera Viana

Conference paper

Published

Materializing Daniele Barbaro's Creativity with 3D Printing
Bridges 2023

Halifax , Canada

Viana, Vera

isbn: 978-1-938664-45-8
issn: 1099-6702

Published

Spatial structures based on solid tessellations
International Conference on Spatial Structures 2020/21, 7 (University of Surrey, 23/08/2021 - 27/08/2021)

Surrey , United Kingdom

Viana, Vera

doi: 10.15126/900337

Published

Towards a systematic approach of topological interlocked assemblies of polyhedra
Nexus 20/21: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics

Kaiserslautern , Germany

Viana, Vera

isbn: 978-88-88479-49-1

Published

Topological Interlocking of Convex Regular Polyhedra.
RCA 2018 Research Culture in Architecture. International Conference on cross-disciplinary collaboration

Kaiserslautern , Germany

Viana, Vera

isbn: 978-3-95974-094-4

Published

Architectonic Tessellations as Constructive Modules
Nexus 2018 Architecture and Mathematics

Pisa , Italy

Viana, Vera

isbn: 978-88-88479-47-7

Edited book

Published

Polyhedra and Beyond

Springer International Publishing

Viana, Vera; Maria Helena Pinto da Rocha Mena de Matos; Xavier, João Pedro

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99116-6

issn: 2297-0215
issn: 2297-024X
isbn: 9783030991159
isbn: 9783030991166
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99116-6

Published

Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress [Special Issue]

, 2022

Vera Viana; Dénes Nagy; Xavier, João Pedro; Neiva, Ana; Ginoulhiac, Marco; Mateus, Luís; Azambuja Varela, Pedro

https://symmetrycongress.arq.up.pt/proceedings/

issn: 1447-607X
handle: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/142586

Published

Jornadas Didácticas 2021: Livro de Resumos

Aproged, 1

João Cabeleira; Viana, Vera

https://aproged.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/livroderesumos2021.pdf

isbn: 978-989-53379-0-3

Published

Thinking, Drawing, Modelling

Springer International Publishing

Viana, Vera; Xavier, João Pedro; Murtinho, Vítor

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46804-0

issn: 2194-1009
issn: 2194-1017
isbn: 9783030468033
isbn: 9783030468040
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-46804-0

Published

Geometrias'19 Book of Abstracts

Aproged, 1

viana, vera

https://aproged.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/g19bookofabstracts.pdf

isbn: 978-989-98926-8-2
isbn: 9789899892682
doi: 10.24840/978-989-98926-8-2

Journal article

Published

Archimedean solids in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 78, 6: 631-715

Viana, Vera

Acesso Aberto

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00407-024-00331-7

issn: 0003-9519
issn: 1432-0657
doi: 10.1007/s00407-024-00331-7

Published

Tessellations within Tessellations

Symmetry Art and Science, 1-4: 290-293

Viana, Vera

issn: 1447-607X

Algorithm for image-based architectural element recognition

FME Transactions, 47, 2: 287-292

Ðuric, Isidora; Obradovic, Ratko; Viana, Vera; Krstanovic, Lidija; Banjac, Bojan; Letic, Jelena; Ralevic, Nebojša

http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/fmet1902287d

issn: 1451-2092
issn: 2406-128X
doi: 10.5937/fmet1902287d
doi: 10.5937/FMET1902287D

Published

From Solid to Plane Tessellations, and Back

Nexus Network Journal, 20, 3: 741-768

Viana, Vera

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-018-0389-5

issn: 1590-5896
issn: 1522-4600
doi: 10.1007/s00004-018-0389-5

Published

Dynamic Geometry Software and Augmented Reality Samples for High School Descriptive Geometry Teaching

Revista Electrónica de Investigación, Docencia i Creatividad, 3: 46-60

Viana, Vera

Acesso Aberto

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Sju9aeFZ8AYTJHc3VhVGdDR3M/edit

issn: 2174-7822

Journal issue

Published

Boletim da Aproged #35

Boletim da Aproged, 35: 74

Cardoso, Vasco; Viana, Vera

Porto , Portugal

https://aproged.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/boletim-35.pdf

issn: 2184-4933

Published

Boletim da Aproged #34

Boletim da Aproged, 34: 128

Viana, Vera; Murtinho, Vítor; Xavier, João Pedro

Porto , Portugal

https://www.aproged.pt/geometrias17/boletim34digital.pdf

issn: 2184-4933
issn: 2184-4933

Published

Boletim da Aproged #33

Boletim da Aproged, 33

Viana, Vera

Porto , Portugal

https://aproged.net/boletim33/

Published

Boletim da Aproged #32

Boletim da Aproged, 32

Viana, Vera

Porto , Portugal

https://aproged.net/boletim32/

Published

Boletim da Aproged #31

Boletim da Aproged, 31

Viana, Vera

Porto , Portugal

https://aproged.net/boletim31/

Online resource

Studying Polyhedra with Advanced Digital Tools (video recording)

https://youtu.be/v3hV59UZiPw

Vera Viana

Spatial structures based on solid tessellations (video recording)

https://youtu.be/K8n4ecT-E6o

Viana, Vera

GeoGebra Book: Interactive Geometry Applets

https://www.geogebra.org/m/cIg8exfg

Viana, Vera

GeoGebra Book: Curves

https://www.geogebra.org/m/uV7J5xSm

Viana, Vera

GeoGebra Book: Descriptive Geometry Applets (step-by-step)

https://www.geogebra.org/m/MNeCNYyn

Viana, Vera

Other output

Tabakgasse-poliéder

Discussion with the author and 3D modelling of the base polyhedron from which the "Tabakgasse-poliéder" was conceived.

Grego Gergely Foldvari

Budapest , Hungary

https://www.facebook.com/gergely.grego.foldvari/posts/pfbid0U56fcLPVUioeJUVQvCQrNLF35d2vNvbuhTgF7tFqFLr8uz2rXt9tBjt54xMk6ukml

Daniele Barbaro and the Geometric Solids

Vera Viana contributed to the chapter by discussing specific details that the author mentions in 5 footnotes (pages 8, 17, 18, and 22)

Kim Williams

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-76687-0_1

doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-76687-0_1

Geometric and Aesthetic Concepts Based on Pentagonal Structures

Vera Viana contributed to the chapter with 3 Figures of topological interlocked assemblies.

Cornelie Leopold

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-70658-0_20-1

doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-57072-3_20

Thesis / Dissertation

Aplicações Didácticas sobre Poliedros para o Ensino da Geometria

PhD

Viana, Vera

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

https://repositorio.utad.pt/handle/10348/10337

handle: 10348/10337

Website

Interactive 3D models of polyhedra

Viana, Vera

https://sketchfab.com/veraviana

moving geometry

Website with educational resources on geometry (polyhedral, plane, descriptive) built with 3-D modelling software (Rhinoceros), algorithmic modelling (Grasshopper) and dynamic geometry software (GeoGebra)

Viana, Vera

https://veraviana.net/

Aproged's second website

Website of the Portuguese Geometry and Drawing Teachers Association.

Viana, Vera

https://aproged.net/

geometria interactiva (descontinuado em 2021)

Website com construções dinâmicas, interactivas e passo-a-passo sobre Geometria e Geometria Descritiva

Viana, Vera

https://veraviana.net/emportugues/

Aproged's first website

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho)

Viana, Vera

http://aproged.pt/

Activities

Association member

Individual member

SIS-Symmetry (International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry)

Individual member

ISGG : International Society for Geometry and Graphics

individual member

APROGED : Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho (Portuguese Geometry and Drawing Teachers' Association)

Committee member

RESET - Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Scientific Committee of the Center for Studies on Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU )

Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Conference Coordination Committee Member of the Nexus 2023 Conference

Nexus Network Journal , Italy

Conference scientific committee

ICGG 2024: International Conference on Geometry and Graphics

Kitakyushu International Conference Center. Fukuoka, Japan

Bridges Richmond 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture

Virginia Commonwealth University

Bridges Halifax 2023: Mathematics·Art ·Music·Architecture·Culture

Dalhousie University

CAAD Futures 2023

TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment

Mongeometrija 2023

Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad

Consulting

International Advisory Board Member

International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Hungary

Course / Discipline taught

Studying Polyhedra with Advanced Digital Tools

Art and Math Seminar Spring 2022

Kansas State University - Department of Mathematics, United States

Tessellating and Interlocking in Patterns

Seminar "Pattern Matters"

Faculty of Architektur, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

Preenchimento uniforme do espaço com poliedros convexos

Interdisciplinary Approaches on Geometry

Mestrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Preenchimento do espaço com poliedros

Geometry and Architecture

Mestrado integrado

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Workshop "Construções Dinâmicas com o Geogebra"

GeoGebra for mathematics' teachers

Outros

APM - Associação dos Professores de Matemática, Portugal

Evaluation committee

"Jornadas Didácticas 2023" (Teacher training event involving high-school Art Teachers, held at Escola Secundária de Francisco Franco no Funchal)

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho), Portugal

"Jornadas Didácticas 2021" (Teacher training event involving high-school Art Teachers, held at Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho)

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho), Portugal ; Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura, Portugal

"Jornadas Didácticas 2018" (Teacher training event involving high-school Art Teachers, held at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto)

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho), Portugal

Event organisation

"Jornadas Didácticas 2023" Event involving high-school Art Teachers, held at Escola Secundária de Francisco Franco no Funchal

President of the Organising Committee, Conference

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho), Portugal

Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress

President of the Organising Committee, Congress

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho), Portugal ; International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Hungary ; Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

"Jornadas Didácticas 2021" Event involving high-school Art Teachers, held at Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho

President of the Organising Committee, Conference

Aproged (Associação dos Professores de Geometria e de Desenho), Portugal ; Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura, Portugal

Contributing Conference "Symmetry, Structure, and Information" to the IS4SI 2021 Summit

Member of the Organising Committee, Conference

International Society for the Study of Information, Austria ; International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Hungary

IS4SI 2021, the 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information.

Member of the Organising Committee, Congress

International Society for the Study of Information, Austria

Event participation

Workshop Photo3D Fotogrametria em Arquitetura

Workshop on Photogrametry in Architecture

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Nexus 2023: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics

Contribution to the Opening Session of the Nexus 2023 Conference, as Conference Coordination Committee member, with an oral presentation

Nexus Network Journal , Italy

Building capacities for integrating gender the dimension in research at U.Porto

Training session "Building capacities for integrating gender the dimension in research at U.Porto" with Dr Maxime Forest

Universidade do Porto Reitoria - Serviço de Investigação e Projectos, Portugal

Farewell Symposium Change of Perspectives

Contribution with an oral presentation about Professor Cornelie Leopold's career during the "Farewell symposium and exhibition opening Change of Perspectives" https://geometrie.architektur.uni-kl.de/en/nachrichten/farewell-symposium_change-of-perspectives

Faculty of Architektur, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

Computational Design: NEXT 7.0

Computational Design: NEXT 7.0

Parametric Architecture, Turkey

Journal scientific committee

Nexus Network Journal

Kim Williams Books

https://www.nexusjournal.com/

Nexus Network Journal

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

https://link.springer.com/journal/4

Nexus Network Journal

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

https://link.springer.com/journal/4

Nexus Network Journal

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

https://link.springer.com/journal/4

Nexus Network Journal

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

https://link.springer.com/journal/4

Oral presentation

Archimedean Solids known in the 15th and 16th centuries

24th Scientific-Professional Colloquium on Geometry and Graphics

Croatian Society for Geometry and Graphics

Materializing Daniele Barbaro’s Creativity with 3D Printing

Bridges 2023: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture

Dalhousie University

Spatial structures based on solid tessellations

IASS Annual Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference

University of Surrey, England

Towards a systematic approach of topological interlocked assemblies of polyhedra

Nexus 20/21: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics

Faculty of Architektur Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Non-Uniform Polyhedra in Daniele Barbaro's La Pratica della Perspettiva

Daniele Barbaro e lo Studio patavino. Architettura, arte e scienza in occasione dei 400 anni della morte

Universitá di Padova

Supervision

Redesenhar o Ensinar: Apropriação de Tecnologias no Ensino de Desenho Técnico para Ressignificação de Práticas Docentes

Educação Matemática e Tecnológica - PhD

Vera Lúcia Viana Lopes - Co-supervisor

Ângela Araújo Nunes - Candidate

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Análisis Geométrico: Configuración de Formas Arquitetónicas Modulares a partir del Estudio de Teselaciones Tridimensionales

Arquitectura - PhD

Vera Lúcia Viana Lopes - Co-supervisor

Sandra Belinda Socci Martinez - Candidate

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Distinctions

Other distinction

PhD approved with distinction

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal