Alexandra Saraiva
Integrated Researcher DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte - Centre for Socioeconomic Change and Territorial Studies (ECSH) [Cities and Territories]
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International Council on Archives (ICA) Since 2025
DINÂMIA'CET - IUL, Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Integrated Researcher) Since 2015
CITAD _ Researcher Centre for Territory, Architecture and Design, Universidade Lusíada (Researcher) 2007 - 2015
OA Since 1995
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Science Communication Session Visit to Casa de Albarraque, by the Education and Mediation Service GUIDED VISITS Revisit the work of Hestnes Ferreira, as part of the exhibition, coordinated by Alexandra Saraiva with guest researcher Luís Martinho Urbano Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Science Communication Session Visit to the ISCTE Campus, by the Education and Mediation Service GUIDED VISITS Revisit the work of Hestnes Ferreira, as part of the exhibition, coordinated by Alexandra Saraiva with guest researcher Bernardo Miranda Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Science Communication Session Visit to the Marvila Library, by the Education and Mediation Service GUIDED VISITS Revisit the work of Hestnes Ferreira, as part of the exhibition, coordinated by Alexandra Saraiva with researcher Paulo Tormenta Pinto Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Science Communication Session Visit to the Fonsecas and Calçada Neighborhood, by the Education and Mediation Service GUIDED VISITS Revisit the work of Hestnes Ferreira, as part of the exhibition, coordinated by Alexandra Saraiva with guest researcher Michel Toussaint Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB 2024
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Science Communication Session Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Form | Mater | Light exhibition Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB 2024
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Debate Session Debate session with the Curators, Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento d'Almeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, of the exhibition Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matter | Light Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Art Exhibition/Installation Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matter | Light Museu de Arte Contemporânea MAC/CCB 2024 - 2025
Member of scientific event committee Conference Project Culture Congress. New Paradigms and Didactics in Transformation Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile 2024
Member of scientific event committee Conference Cultura Proyectual Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile (FAU) 2024
Member of scientific event committee Conference V Seminar AEULP Distant Proximity Seminar FAUL 2023
Member of scientific event committee Conference "Urban Morphology: Planning, Recovery and Resilience" 11th International Conference PNUM Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, DINÂMIA’CET 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Luís Pavão, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/06/03 - 2023/06/03) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Luís Pavão, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/06/03 - 2023/06/03) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Luís Pavão, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/06/03 - 2023/06/03) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Alexandre Alves Costa, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/05/13 - 2023/05/13) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Alexandre Alves Costa, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/05/13 - 2023/05/13) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Alexandre Alves Costa, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/05/13 - 2023/05/13) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Alexandre Alves Costa, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/05/13 - 2023/05/13) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Bernardo Miranda, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/04/22 - 2023/04/22) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Bernardo Miranda, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/04/22 - 2023/04/22) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Bernardo Miranda, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/04/22 - 2023/04/22) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Bernardo Miranda, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/04/22 - 2023/04/22) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Luís Urbano, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/03/25 - 2023/03/25) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Luís Urbano, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/03/25 - 2023/03/25) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Luís Urbano, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/03/25 - 2023/03/25) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Luís Urbano, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/03/25 - 2023/03/25) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 40 architecture students from Universidade Lusíada Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 40 architecture students from Universidade Lusíada Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 40 architecture students from Universidade Lusíada Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 40 architecture students from Universidade Lusíada Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 30 architecture students from Universidade Lusofona Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 30 architecture students from Universidade Lusofona Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 30 architecture students from Universidade Lusofona Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Guided visit to the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria |Luz exhibition, for a group of 30 architecture students from Universidade Lusofona Porto 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Ana Tostões, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/02/25 - 2023/02/25) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Ana Tostões, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/02/25 - 2023/02/25) 2023
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Lecture Organisor: Alexandra Saraiva, Patrícia Bento dAlmeida and Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Encontros com / Meetings with Ana Tostões, https://fims.up.pt/index.php?cat=46#Expo_RaulHestnesFerreira_2023 (2023/02/25 - 2023/02/25) 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Art Exhibition/Installation Hestnes Ferreira - Form | Matter | Light Fundação Marques da Silva 2023
Member of scientific event committee Conference International Congress on Engineering (ICEUBI 2022) – Innovation and Sustainability Praxis Universidade Beira Interior 2022
Member of scientific event committee Conference International Congress on Engineering (ICEUBI 2022) – Innovation and Sustainability Praxis Universidade Beira Interior 2022
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Exploratory field trip, for the 5th year students of the ISCTE MIA, integrated in the Research Project "The critical monumentality of Álvaro Siza - Urban rehabilitation projects after the 1998 Lisbon World Exhibition" to visit the works of Álvaro Siza Vieira with the involvement of all City Councils (Chaves, Matosinhos, Viana do Castelo, Vila do Conde). 2021
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Exploratory field trip, for the 5th year students of the ISCTE MIA, integrated in the Research Project "The critical monumentality of Álvaro Siza - Urban rehabilitation projects after the 1998 Lisbon World Exhibition" to visit the works of Álvaro Siza Vieira with the involvement of all City Councils (Chaves, Matosinhos, Viana do Castelo, Vila do Conde). 2021
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Conference National Conference Co-organisor: Entre Transições 40 Anos do DINÂMIA'CET. Retrospetivas Transversalidades Perspetivas (2021/06 - 2021/06) 2019 - 2021
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Conference National Conference Co-organisor: Entre Transições 40 Anos do DINÂMIA'CET. Retrospetivas Transversalidades Perspetivas (2021/06 - 2021/06) Since 2019
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Organization of a 2-day trip, which will allow revisiting a set of 16 works by Hestnes Ferreira, entitled 'Diving in the South of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira'. The main objective of the trip is to interpret some works by Raúl Hestnes Ferreira, in order to contribute to the knowledge of the historiography of contemporary Portuguese architecture. Departing and arriving in Lisbon, passing through Évora, Avis, Beja, Moita, and Albarraque, from the period between 1960 and 2017. Dinâmia'Cet 2019
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Organization of a 3-day trip, which will allow revisiting a set of 16 works by Hestnes Ferreira, entitled 'Diving in the South of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira'. The main objective of the trip is to interpret some works by Raúl Hestnes Ferreira, in order to contribute to the knowledge of the historiography of contemporary Portuguese architecture. Departing and arriving in Lisbon, passing through Évora, Avis, Beja, Moita, and Albarraque, from the period between 1960 and 2017. unrealized Dinâmia-CET 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee -- Arquitectura Lusíada Porto Meeting Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes da Universidade Lusíada do Porto 2015
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Member of the Organizing Committee of the event Lusíada Norte Architecture _ Meeting 2015, Experiences and Work, which took place at the University Lusíada Porto. 2015
Member of scientific event committee -- 1 st International Conference Heritage Vs Tourism Universidade Lusíada Lisboa, CITAD 2015
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee -- ArquitecturaLusíada Porto Meeting Faculdade de Arquitectura e Artes da Universidade Lusíada do Porto 2014
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Member of the Organizing Committee of the event Architecture Lusíada Porto Meeting Experiences in Architecture, which took place at the University Lusíada Norte - Porto, Faculty of Architecture and Arts 2014
Awards
Award Description Year
Scientific Employment Stimulus - 4th Edition (2021.02417.CEECIND) 2022
Postdoctoral Fellowship (SFRH/BPD/111869/2015) 2015
Scientific Editing/Reviewing Activities
Type of Activity Journal Title Journal ISSN Quartile Period Language
Scientific journal editor Revista Passagens 2182-8512 -- Since 2022 Portuguese
Member of scientific journal editing staff Archivoz International Archives Magazine 2659-2711 -- Since 2020 Portuguese
Member of scientific journal editing staff CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios 2182-3030 Q2 Since 2018 Portuguese
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
Universidade Lusíada Porto (Faculty of Architecture and Arts) Portugal (Porto) Assistant Professor (Architecture ( Integrated Master)) Since 1996
Diffusion Activities
Activity Type Event Title Activity Description Year
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Habitar Portugal 74|24 Commissioner of the Habitar Portugal Program, dedicated to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of April 25, 1974, selection, exhibition, catalog and parallel program, from OA 2024
Publication in general diffusion news outlet Invitation to Hestnes Ferreira: Form | Mater | Light exhibition Short video to invite the exhibition on social media on the MAC/CCB institutional page 2024
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Hestnes Ferreira Between European timelessness and North American classicism Open class at ISCTE, in the 4th year of MIA, invitated by Professors Paulo Tormenta Pinto and João Trindade 2022
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event 40x4' Co-Design Views is an official side event of the New European Bauhaus Festival. Co-Design Views | Alexandra Saraiva - DINÂMIA'CET – Iscte 2022
Publication in general diffusion news outlet “Open collaboration between the various specialists is absolutely relevant and enriching in order to establish a dialogue between architecture, archives and heritage” Interview with Ana Freitas. Interview with Ana Ramos 2021
Publication in general diffusion news outlet “All of our activity is done for the human being, which must be our fundamental concern”: Interview with Carlos Alberto Carvalho Dias. Interview with Carlos Alberto Carvalho Dias, honorary member of the Ordem dos Arquitetos, the Association of Portuguese Urbanists and the Associacion Española de Tecnicos Urbanistas. 2020
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Diving in the South of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira Organization of a 2-day trip, which will allow revisiting a set of 16 works by Hestnes Ferreira, entitled 'Diving in the South of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira'. The main objective of the trip is to interpret some works by Raúl Hestnes Ferreira, in order to contribute to the knowledge of the historiography of contemporary Portuguese architecture. Departing and arriving in Lisbon, passing through Évora, Avis, Beja, Moita, and Albarraque, from the period between 1960 and 2017. 2019
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Five fingers of a hand, a conversation that takes as a starting point the project of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira for the José Gomes Ferreira Secondary School. A conversation about the project of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira for the School of Benfica, signals the participation of the Foundation Marques da Silva in the program of the European Heritage Days 2018, whose theme is to share memories, with Alexandra Saraiva, Anselmo Canha, Manuel Esperança and Nuno Markl. 2018
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Architect José Forjaz 50 Years of Architecture in Mozambique Interview with José Forjaz conducted by Alexandra Saraiva, on November 26, 2015, Auditorium of the National Coach Museum, in Lisbon 2015
Products
Product Type Product Title Detailed Description Year
Art Installation/Exhibition/Performance Hestnes Ferreira: Form | Matter | Light Hestnes Ferreira — Form | Matter | Light presents a reading of the work of architect Raúl Hestnes Ferreira (1931–2018) based on his working process, dominated by charcoal drawing and architectural experimentation. In Hestnes Ferreira’s deeply disciplined method, design decisions emerge in the heavy marks of steady charcoal strokes. Pure forms and classic typologies become entangled in this way of doing things, which is consolidated in a robust architecture that explores the qualities of materials in their natural expression, without filter or artifice. Hestnes Ferreira’s architecture achieves a sublime timelessness, whether through its formal simplicity or material expressiveness. In this context, space is the aggregating element, with the building being the foundation that gives it weight and proportion. Light and shadow are essential in this journey of abstraction, creating moments of singularity that merge inexorably in the experience of each place. 2024
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources INDEG Building - ISCTE and the city Video of the INDEG Building, made for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE, in co-authorship with Bernardo Miranda, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Raúl Hestnes Ferreira - ISCTE and the city Video about Raúl Hestnes Ferreira, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Bernardo Miranda, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Building 2 - ISCTE and the city Video of Building 2 , ISCTE II/ICS, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Bernardo Miranda, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Building 1 - ISCTE and the city Video of Building 1, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Bernardo Miranda, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Autonomous Wing - ISCTE and the city Video of the Autonomous Wing, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Bernardo Miranda, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022