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Atlanta, GA
30332
STADIA LAB
OUR PEOPLE
gUSTAVO DO AMARAL
Gustavo is a registered architect and urbanist in Brazil with design experience in residential buildings, and large-scale retail and sports facilities. From 2008 to 2014 Gustavo was the head of Studio Bauen Architecture Practice and was a faculty member in charge of architecture theory and design studios at the Pontific Catholic University and at the Federal University of Goias. He has worked with sports architecture since 2008 in projects of stadiums for municipalities and college multiuse sports arenas. He has also worked as a consultant with Pritzker Prize architect Paulo Mendez da Rocha on the design proposal of Serra Dourada Stadium as a venue for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Gustavo earned his degree in architecture and urbanism from Pontific Catholic University in Brazil, and his Master in Architecture from University of Sao Paulo in 2012, when he received a full scholarship to conduct a research about the role of sports facilities as urban regenerators. In 2017 he has earned a Masters in Computational Design from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he is currently a fully funded PhD student and a design researcher at the Stadia Lab. His current research is focused on the development of computational design methodologies that will use big-data on the analysis of largescale urban stadium projects and the relationship of this building typology to the city.
DR. bENJAMIN fLOWERS
Benjamin’s work examines architecture as a form of social activity situated within the intersecting spheres of politics, culture, and economy. Looking in particular at skyscrapers and stadiums, he focuses on the ways these structures are constructed, the ends to which they are used, and the nature of public reaction to them.
Flowers’ research has been covered in the New York Times, BBC, CNN, National Public Radio, Marketplace, the Associated Press, and Stadia Magazine, among other national and international news outlets.
He is the author of Beautiful Moves: Designing Stadia (LundHumphries, 2018). His third book Sport and Architecture (Routledge, 2017) is a global survey of the stadium. His second book, Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (Ashgate Press, 2014), examined the political economy of architecture during the recent great recession. His first book, Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), was named a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title in Architecture by Choice Magazine.
Flowers received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and his B.A. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He grew up in Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Romania, and Washington, DC.