JOSÉ NUNO DINIS CABRAL BEIRÃO. Portuguese, living in Lisbon. Graduated in Architecture, in 1989 from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon. I worked in the offices of Architects Gonçalo Byrne and J. P. Falcão de Campos. In 1998 founded the office Bquadrado architects with Miguel Salgado Braz (www.bquadrado.com). The architectural practice can be consulted on the website www.bquadrado.com.

Master degree in Urban Design in 2005 from ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and completed my PhD at TU Delft, Netherlands, from the departments of ‘Urbanism’ and ‘Architectural Engineering + Technology’ in 2012. The dissertation topic is the development of Generative patterns for urban design including spatial analysis tools. In the thesis "CItyMaker: Designing for Urban Design Grammars", the acronym CIM stands for City Information Modelling, emphasizing information processing as decision support in urban design. I am currently the coordinator of the Design Computation Group (DCG) research group at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (http://dcg.fa.ulisboa.pt/). My current research interests focus on the use of parametric systems, geographic databases and spatial analysis to investigate the following concepts:

1. measurement of urbanity parameters and studies on urban morphology;
2. development of evolutionary systems for urban design;
3. customizable systems for social housing, sustainable housing systems, and the generation of such systems supported by algorithms;
4. City Information Modelling - CIM; 
5. digital design and manufacturing;
6. urban analysis and development of tools and methods to support planning decision including the development of Convex, Solid and Street Void methods (CSV - https://solidvoids.fa.ulisboa.pt/);
7. game-based participatory systems;
8. nature-based solutions in urban planning and
9. bio-based solutions for Architecture. I am also an expert on shape grammars.