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Vanessa Kellen Xavier Couto

Vanessa Kellen Xavier Couto

Belo Horizonte, BR

 
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About 

Founding partner of Métrika Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Works directly with the office management and production processes, as coordinator, from customer prospecting to monitoring works.

Architect and City Planner graduated from Architecture School of Federal University of Minas Gerais (2016) with a period in Leeds Faculty of Arts, Architecture & Design (UK, 2015). Construction Expert from Engeneering School of the same university (2019), searching for professional improvement from new experiences around the world. Since 2012 I have been colaborating with architecture offices in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, developing architecture and landscape projects and interior designs in diferent scales. 

I am responsable, organized and proactive with strong skills in leadership with in growth teams managing process, deadlines and interpersonal relationships. Adaptable with new approaches and standards, believing that architecture is constructed from experiences exchange and inspirations. I am always seeking the coherence between aestetics, funcionality and technique to meet the clients demands.


Employment 

Metrika Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Belo Horizonte, BR, Architect and Urban Planner

Founding partner of Métrika Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Works directly with the office management and production processes, as coordinator, from customer prospecting to monitoring works.

Feb 2017 - current
 

Oficina da Casa Arquitetura e Paisagismo, Belo Horizonte, BR, Architect and Urban Planner

Project management, executive drawings development, detailed architectural design, compatibility with engineering projects, graphic and presentation design for different scales as weel as landscape and urban requalification projects.

Oct 2015 - current
 

Education 

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, BR, BArch, Architecture and Urban Panning

The undergraduate course in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Minas Gerais is offered in ten semesters and has a curriculum of at least 3,600 hours.

UFMG's Architecture and Urbanism course offers subjects in the areas of graphic representation and architectural expression; theory, history, cultural heritage, structural engineering and technology of architecture and urbanism; architectural, urban and regional planning.

The course trains architects-urbanists as professionals able to meet the demand of society for space agency projects in general; able to teach their craft by reproducing and spreading their knowledge; able to reflect critically on themselves and the world around them; and able to act by modifying and perfecting this reality.

The objective of this course is to prepare professionals able to understand architecture as a built space, in its urban and environmental dimension. It is the role of the architect to work towards the advancement of technique and art as promoters of quality of life, ecological balance and general well-being. Thus, it is up to the professional to develop projects, construction and maintenance of buildings, architectural ensembles and monuments, landscape and interior architecture, physical, local, urban and regional planning, and other related services

Mar 2011 - Dec 2016
 

Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, GB, BArch, Architecture

Intership period in Leeds Faculty of Arts, Architecture & Design

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
 

Areas of Specialization 

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