Gabriela Quintana Vigiola
Professor
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Biography
Gabriela Quintana Vigiola is an architect, academic and urban designer, and a private consultant in the urban design and planning sectors. Her academic research ranges from urban design to cultural and psychosocial studies. She focuses on current issues such as participatory design methodology; master-planning; urban design developments; spirituality, culture and urban spaces; urban morphology; and urban design and planning history and theory. She recently finalised her PhD thesis about placemaking through culture, focusing on the construction of place in Venezuelan slums' urban space through catholic procession as a cultural construct.
Research Interest
Informal settlements, Culture and Urban Space / morphology, Religiosity and the built environment, Participatory Design practice and methodology, Social sustainability, Urban morphology theory and history, Urban balance
