2024-12-22T08:34:55-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/35058280/portuguese-architect-diogo-burnay-appointed-director-of-the-school-of-architecture-of-the-faculty-of-architecture-and-planning-of-dalhousie-university hugonascimento 2012-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/p1/p1eopjy9lvdpt1wl.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The portuguese architect Diogo Burnay to head Faculty of Architecture and Planning of Dalhousie University, at Halifax, Canada, after being selected among three finalists in an international competition.</p></em><br /><br /><p> The Portuguese architect Diogo Burnay was appointed to be the director of the School of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning of Dalhousie University, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, after being shortlisted among three finalists in an international call for applications.</p> <p> Diogo Burnay applied last year to the post of Director of the School of Architecture at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and in August was selected for a "short-list" which also included an American, an Italian and a Norwegian architect.</p> <p> Working outside of Portugal is not new for this 46 year old architect who founded in 1999 in Lisbon, next to Cristina Ver&iacute;ssimo, the office CVDB (1). Diogo Burnay was living in Macau when he taught at the Department of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong. He also taught in various universities in the United States, the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington and at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the...</p>