Resumo CV
Assistant Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon. Chair of the Cost Action CA18137 European Middle-Class Mass Housing (2019-23), supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. Integrated PhD researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL and researcher at African Studies Center, University of Porto. Former IIAS Fellow (Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), from the research group Re-Theorizing Housing as Architecture Research (2019-2020).  Pos-Doc in Architecture from the University of Porto (under the supervision of A. Alves Costa). PhD (2004) in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, Brazil (under the supervision of J. Toscano). Master (1998, under supervision of M.D. Mesquita) and BA (1991) in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at Technic University of Lisbon.  Head Researcher/Principal Investigator of several research projects focused on architecture and urban planning issues in the former Portuguese colonial African countries and middle-class housing, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology, including The Colonial Urbanization Offices: Architectural Culture and Practice (AUR-AQI/104964/2008), Homes for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda, Macao¿ (ATP-AQI/3707/2012), Coast to Coast. Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental África (Angola and Mozambique): Critical and Historical Analysis and Postcolonial Assessment (ATP-AQI/0742/2014), the ongoing projects Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia (ARTDAQ/30594/2017) and 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, starting in March 2021). Supervisor of 18 PhD Students since 2009 (7 completed) and 84 Master Students (2008-2020). Tutor of three Post-doc researches since 2016 (1 completed). Author of A Construção do Brasil. Relações com a Cultura Arquitectónica Portuguesa¿ (2005), Nos Trópicos sem Le Corbusier. Arquitectura Luso-Africana no Estado Novo¿ (2012), awarded with the art and architecture critic and essayist prize by the Portuguese Section of AICA/ Fundação Carmona e Costa (2013), and African Colonial Architectures - At the end of the Portuguese Empire (2017).  Invited researcher at Ghent University (2015-16) and Fellow Researcher at University of São Paulo (2018, funded by FAPESP - São Paulo).
Qualificações Académicas
Universidade/Instituição Tipo Curso Período
ISCTE-IUL
Departamento de Arquitectura
Agregação História da Arquitectura Portuguesa 2015
Universidade São Paulo - Brasil
Doutoramento Arquitectura 2004
Faculdade de Arquitectura - UTL
Mestrado Cultura Arquitectónica Contemporânea e Construção da Sociedade Moderna 1998
Faculdade de Arquitectura - UTL
Licenciatura Arquitectura 1992
Áreas de Investigação
Estudos Coloniais - Arquitectura e Urbanismo
Habitação e Habitação para a Classe Media
Cultura Arquitectonica Portuguesa
Outras Humanidades Humanidades