Miguel Amado (1959) joined the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of Universidade de Lisboa in January 2016 as career Associate Professor of Architecture of DECivil; Amado received his BSc in Architecture from Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and a MSc in Spatial Planning and Environmental Planning and his PhD of Environment Sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and its Habilitation in Architecture from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of Universidade de Lisboa. His research program at IST will focus on the Incremental Housing as a method to Sustainable Habitat; Parametric Elements to Modular Social Housing; and Regeneration Models to informal areas in Development Countries. Amado is recipient of the Patent Application - Technical Wall to Incremental Housing Models. His previous work cover Sustainable Urban Planning and Renewal Energy.