Biography
José Miguel Lameiras is a landscape architect and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, specialising in urban regeneration, green infrastructure and climate-resilient landscape design. His work explores how nature-based solutions and advanced digital technologies can support more sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities.
At the University of Porto, he directs the undergraduate programme in Landscape Architecture and conducts research at BIOPOLIS/CIBIO. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Manchester School of Architecture and a member of the Executive Board of the Landscape Observatory at the Faculty of Sciences.
He coordinates and co-coordinates the participation of FCUP and BIOPOLIS in several European research and education projects, including URBiNAT, COCOON, NBRACER, GreenInCities and LANDLABS. Through these initiatives, he contributes to the development of nature-based solutions, regenerative landscapes, biomaterials and participatory approaches to urban transformation.
Alongside his academic and research activities, he has coordinated and contributed to landscape architecture projects for public parks and green infrastructure in the Porto region. His work includes the Alameda de Cartes Park, the parks of the Asprela University Campus and projects focused on urban water management, ecological restoration and climate adaptation.
His practice combines landscape architecture, research and advanced digital representation technologies, including digital terrain modelling, Building Information Modelling and emerging tools for landscape design. He holds a PhD in Landscape Architecture from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.