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Luís Henrique Bueno Villanova, MSc. architect and urban planner, is a consultant on tall buildings and urban regulations. Currently, researcher and PhD student at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS / Brazil, focusing on the implementation of tall buildings in Brazil. He is also a columnist for the Caos Planejado website, an individual academic member of the CTBUH, member of the Skyscraper Center Editorial Board Committee – CTBUH and a member of the Height and Data Committee.

In his academic experience, he has a degree in architecture and urbanism from UniRitter, in Porto Alegre / Brazil (2010) with a student exchange at the Universidad de La República (2007), in Montevideo / Uruguay. His Final Project was “The Hybrid Skyscraper” which received the “José Albano Volkmer” and “Opera Prima” awards and, later, publications in the book “Vertical Density 2” by Future Books and “Evolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition Poster” from Evolo Publishing. Also, postgraduate in the MBA Sustainable Constructions – Green Building Council Brazil through INBEC and Universidade Cidade de São Paulo – UNICID, in São Paulo (2015). Furthermore, he has a Master's degree in architecture and urbanism with the thesis “Skyscraper in the 21st Century: three concepts. An essay in Porto Alegre” by UniRitter/Mackenzie (2018).

In his professional career, he worked in several architectural offices in Porto Alegre, developing projects and feasibility studies for residential, office and mixed buildings. In his last experience, Ideia1 Arquitetura (2015 to 2023), he was coordinator of the “Design Creation” team, developing the design of tall building projects in several Brazilian cities.

Luís Henrique Bueno Villanova, MSc. architect and urban planner, is a consultant on tall buildings and urban regulations. Currently, researcher and PhD student at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS / Brazil, focusing on the implementation of tall buildings in Brazil. He is also a columnist for the Caos Planejado website, an individual academic member of the CTBUH, member of the Skyscraper Center Editorial Board Committee – CTBUH and a member of the Height and Data Committee.

In his academic experience, he has a degree in architecture and urbanism from UniRitter, in Porto Alegre / Brazil (2010) with a student exchange at the Universidad de La República (2007), in Montevideo / Uruguay. His Final Project was “The Hybrid Skyscraper” which received the “José Albano Volkmer” and “Opera Prima” awards and, later, publications in the book “Vertical Density 2” by…

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