Hugo Segawa
Hugo Segawa has been director of USP’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) since April 2014, and is a professor at the university’s School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU). He graduated, and obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from FAU, in addition to a full professorship at USP’s School of Engineering of São Carlos (EESC). He was a visiting professor at Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina), Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain), Isthmus – Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño de América Latina y el Caribe (Panama); Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Unidad Xochimilco (Mexico), Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (Mexico), and Tokyo University of Science (Japan). Segawa has given lectures in numerous universities in Brazil and in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, United States, Spain, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and Slovakia. He is the author of, among other books, Arquitectura contemporánea latinoamericana (2005), Prelúdio da metrópole ( 2004), Arquiteturas no Brasil 1900-1990 (2014), and Ao amor do público: jardins no Brasil (1996). He is also coauthor of Complexo do Gasômetro (2007), Ver Zanine (2002), and Oswaldo Arthur Bratke (2012). He has published numerous articles in books, magazines and proceedings of scientific meetings in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ecuador, United States, Netherlands, Italy, Finland, France, Mexico, Portugal, United Kingdom and Sweden. He was curator of the 2004 exhibition “Recent Architecture in Brazil” in Frankfurt (Germany) and co-curator of “Le Corbusier 1929, South America,” at the USP’s Maria Antonia University Center in 2012. |