Filipa Fiúza (Cacém, 1988) has completed the Master's Degree in Architecture (2010) in ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute). She is currently a PhD student (supported by the FCT- Foundation for Science and Technology) on Cultural Heritage of Portuguese Influence at the Centre for Social Studies and Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra. Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL - Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, since 2012. Co-IR of the project "Dominance and mass-violence through Housing and Architecture during colonial wars. The Portuguese case (Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique): colonial documentation and post-independence critical assessment" (PTDC/ART-DAQ/0592/2020), financed by the FCT. Participant in the Cost Action CA18137 "European Middle-Class Mass Housing" (2019-23), supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Researcher in several projects financed by the FCT: "MCMH - Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia" (PTDC/ART-DAQ/30594/2017); and "Coast to Coast - Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique): Critical and Historical Analysis and Postcolonial Assessment" (PTDC/ATP-AQI/0742/2014).   As a fellow researcher, she has collaborated in several other projects, including "Homes for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda and Macao" (PTDC/ATP-AQI/3707/2012) and "The Colonial Urbanization Offices: Architectural Culture and Practice" (PTDC/AUR-AQI/104964/2008).   She was a visiting researcher in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture - Ghent University (Nov. 2015-Jan. 2016). Since 2011, she has participated in national and international conferences on Middle-class Housing, and on Architecture and Urbanism in the former Portuguese colonial African countries. She has published articles in books, magazines and conference proceedings, and has co-organized several conferences and exhibitions.