Profile & trajectory

About

Academic education and trajectory in architecture and urbanism, urban and regional planning, and Marxism.

Alexandre Tavares em atividade acadêmica
Academic profile

Architecture and urbanism, urban planning & Marxism.

Architect and Urbanist from URI, MSc and PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at UFRGS. Researcher in Marxism and the Foundations of Urban and Regional Planning, focusing on housing, public policy, property and Latin America.

Academic education

Degrees, supervision and funding.

2026 — present

PhD · UFRGS / PROPUR

Urban and Regional Planning · supervisor Inês Martina Lersch · co-supervisor Laura Calbet Elias · CAPES/DS funding.

2023 — 2025

MSc · UFRGS / PROPUR

Urban and Regional Planning · dissertation “Towards a Critique of Collective Ownership” · supervisor Inês Martina Lersch · CAPES/DS funding.

2018 — 2022

Architecture and Urbanism · URI

Final project “Chico Mendes Social Housing Ecovillage” · supervisor Edmar Pereira Fabrício · ProUni scholarship.

International education

Academic training and activities undertaken in international contexts.

2025

SMUS PhD Training Programme · TU Berlin

650 hours at the Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung · Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability · DAAD/BMZ scholarship.

2023

Universidad de La Salle · Bogotá

International Workshop on Informal Urbanism and Climate Change, including fieldwork and outreach activities in Ciudad Bolívar.

Languages

Portuguesegood comprehension, speaking, reading and writing
Englishgood comprehension, speaking, reading and writing
Spanishgood comprehension and reading; intermediate speaking and writing
Russianbasic knowledge
Italianbeginner

Academic activity

Teaching, groups, committees and research.

2026 — present

Teaching placement · Theories of Urban Space

Faculty of Architecture/UFRGS · course led by Prof. Dr Samuel Thomas Jaenisch.

2024 — present

CPLab · UFRGS

City as Project: Teaching, Research and Outreach Laboratory.

2024 — 2025

Committees · PROPUR/UFRGS

Self-Evaluation/Strategic Planning Committee, Communications Committee and Socio-Academic Integration Working Group.

2023 — present

GEDURB · UFRGS

Urban Studies and Documentation Group.

2023 — 2024

Teaching placement · Urban Evolution

Faculty of Architecture/UFRGS · course led by Prof. Dr Bruno Cesar Euphrasio de Mello.

2021 — 2022

GADRAU · URI

Regional Development Support through Architecture and Urbanism · research group working on social housing.

Additional training

Courses and additional training related to research, urban planning and professional practice.

2025 · 650hSMUS PhD Training ProgrammeTechnische Universität Berlin
2024–2025 · 52hRussian Language CourseNELE · UFRGS
2024 · 15hNeoliberalism: Society and the CityUFRGS
2024 · 15hLand Regularisation and Environmental Racism in BrazilLincoln Institute of Land Policy
2023 · 30hThe Context of Social Housing in Southern BrazilUFRGS
2023 · 20hViolence, Public Safety and the Right to the CityFórum Nacional de Reforma Urbana
2022 · 20hTerritory and Struggle: Grassroots Work in the Urban Popular MovementFundação Perseu Abramo