BA, MA, PhD UFRJ/EHESS, Full Professor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (The Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
Member of the Brazilian Institute of Architects (IAB)
Member of the Municipal Heritage Committee of Rio de Janeiro (CMPC)
Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Member of the Council on Architecture and Urbanism (CAU-BR)
Member of the Theatre Architecture Working Group (IFTR)
Member of the International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT)
Member of the National Association of History (ANPUH)
Researcher for the National Council for Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq)
Researcher for The Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
Researcher for The Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur le Monde Lusophone (CRILUS/Paris-Nanterre)
Research Interests:
Cultural Heritage and Urban Planning
Theatre Architecture
History of Architecture
Cultural and Social History
EVELYN FURQUIM WERNECK LIMA holds a BA in Architecture and Urban Planning, a MA in History of Art, and a PhD in Social History (UFRJ) with a Doctoral Research Period at the École des hautes études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She is a Full Professor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – The Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro / Post Graduate Programme in Performing Arts Studies, is a researcher for the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq- 1-A) and for the FAPERJ Foundation (Scientist of Our State) and is a member of the Municipal Heritage Council of Rio de Janeiro. She has published a variety of articles on Cultural Heritage, History of Architecture, Theatre Architecture, and Cultural History and has presented papers at international conferences in England, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Chile and numerous papers at national conferences. She was head of the General Department of Cultural Heritage in Rio de Janeiro (1990-1992), is the leader of the Research Group ‘Theatrical Spaces Studies’ and the leader of the Research Group ‘Space, Memory and Urban Planning’. She is the Head of the Laboratory for Theatrical Spaces and Urban Memory Studies (in the Post-Graduate Programme of Performing Arts) since 1994. Lima is also the author of Contemporary Theatre Buildings and their Impacts on Cities (2022); Theatre Architecture from the Renaissance to the 21rst Century (2017), Architectures and Set Designs. Lina Bo Bardi and the Theatre (2012, with Monteiro); Architecture and Theatre: From Palladio to Portzamparc (2010 with Cardoso), From the Avant- Gardes to Tradition (2006), Architecture for Performing Arts (2000/ Brazilian Institute of Architects Award), President Vargas Avenue: a drastic surgery (1990/Architect Olga Verjovski Award). She edited Architecture, Artistic Practices and Cultural Heritage (2022), Architecture, Theatre and Culture: Revisiting Spaces, Cities and Playwrights of the Seventeenth Century (2012), Space and Theatre (2008), Space and City (2007), among others. Lima is the Head of the Laboratory of Theatrical Spaces and Urban Memory Studies at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Collège de France (2011), Università Degli Studi di Padova (2016), and at the Crakow University of Technology (2021). She supervised eighteen Ph.D thesis and nineteen Ms.C. dissertations. Lima also directed the documentary Contemporary Theatre Architecture in the State of Rio de Janeiro (2017), and the documentary Industrial Heritage and Artistic Practices (2022). She was the President of the Organising Commission for eleven National Symposia and four International Conferences. She is the Coordinator for the Arts at the FAPERJ Foundation since 2018.
Before dedicating herself to her academic career, Evelyn Furquim Werneck Lima worked for fifteen years as an architect and superintendent of projects and works (1967-1982), having subsequently occupied management and advisory positions at the Rio de Janeiro City Hall. She also devoted herself to the processes of heritage preservation and conservation when she was the General Director of Cultural Heritage and, afterwards, the Technical Advisor of the Municipal Council for Urban Policy. During this period, Lima was responsible for urban regeneration projects, she established projects to encourage heritage conservation at the Cruz Vermelha district, and delimited and supervised five Cultural Environment Protection Areas (APACs) preserving Rio´s built heritage, besides contributing to urban policies for the city. She has also been Head of the Post-Graduate Programme in Architecture and Urbanism at the Bennett Methodist Institute, where she coordinated the Laboratory for Urban-Architectural Research and won funding as a Cientista do Nosso Estado (FAPERJ) to develop a project for the Dockland Area of Rio de Janeiro prioritizing housing and cultural activities. (2000-2002).
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