Claudio Silveira Amaral studied architecture at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of PUC-Campinas, the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas. He has a master’s degree and a PhD from the University of São Paulo. He did post-PhD studies at THE RUSKIN in Lancaster University, UK, and a post-PhD in the RUI BARBOSA FOUNDATION in Rio de Janeiro. His thesis was on John Ruskin and the teaching of drawing in Brazil, later published as a book by Editora UNESP in Portuguese and in English by The Edwin Mellen Press. He also wrote a book entitled Rui Barbosa: a Reader of John Ruskin. The author of many wide-ranging essays and articles on architecture, Ruskin, and Brazil, he is a retired professor at UNESP, São Paulo State University.

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