Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros

Dr Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros

Senior Lecturer

Department of Architecture & Visual Arts , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering

Dr Deborah Benrós is an ARB/RIBA UK registered architect and researcher who occupies a role of Senior Lecturer in Technical Studies and representation at UEL.

Areas Of Interest

  • Design and Computation
  • Shape grammars
  • Customisation
Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros

OVERVIEW

Deborah Benrós is an ARB/RIBA UK registered architect and researcher.

She holds a doctorate from University College London - The Bartlett School (UCL) and was a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

She attained a Masters in architecture from University of Lisbon, where she also taught design studio and computer aided design. In practice, she worked at several architectural offices including Foster and Partners, and Arup.

As visiting faculty at Cornell University, she taught design studio and an elective course focusing on her research field which includes: shape grammars and mass customisation of housing.

At UEL, she occupies a role of Senior Lecturer in Technical Studies and representation.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • PhD Dissertation: Benrós D; “A generic housing grammar for the generation of different housing languages”, PhD Dissertation, University College London, 2018  
  • Journal Paper: Benrós D; Hanna S; and Duarte J; A New Palladian Shape Grammar - A Subdivision Grammar as alternative to the Palladian grammar, international journal of architectural computing, issue 04, volume 10, pp. 521–540, 2013   
  • Conference Paper: Benros, D; Duarte J and Hanna S; 2012. An alternative Palladian shape grammar: A subdivision grammar for Palladian villas. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Chennai 25-28 April 2012, pp. 415–424. 
  • Conference Paper: Benrós D.; Duarte, J.P.; Branco, F. A System for providing customized housing: Integrating design and construction using a computer tool, in Gero. J., Dong, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th CAAD Futures Conference, pp. 153-166, Sydney, Australia, July 2007 
  • Journal Paper: Benrós, D.; Duarte J.P. “An Integrated System for Providing Mass Customized Housing”, in Automation in Construction 18 (2009) 310–320, Lisbon, 2008

Publications

The last four years of publications can be viewed below. 

Full publications list

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Research repository