Leonor Matos Silva - A+I

ai-research.pt is a research cluster and website based at dinamia'cet-iul that addresses issues related to Criticism, Theory and History of Architecture with an impact on contemporaneity. The core is composed by a group of researchers involved in housing, colonial & post-colonial and gender studies, architecture and urbanism education and Portuguese architectural culture. We work as a team in building research networks, benefiting from the coordination and participation in projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and the Cost Association. We deal with archives and heterogeneous documentation, from architecture drawings to films, we rely on field trips and oral history, we promote new historiographical and essayistic narratives that escape from traditional Eurocentric views. We work in long chronological frames and broad geographies, focusing on the territories that have Portuguese as one of their languages, asking ourselves how they are positioned in the world.

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ai-research.pt is a research cluster and website based at dinamia'cet-iul that addresses issues related to Criticism, Theory and History of Architecture with an impact on contemporaneity. The core is composed by a group of researchers involved in housing, colonial & post-colonial and gender studies, architecture and urbanism education and Portuguese architectural culture. We work as a team in building research networks, benefiting from the coordination and participation in projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and the Cost Association. We deal with archives and heterogeneous documentation, from architecture drawings to films, we rely on field trips and oral history, we promote new historiographical and essayistic narratives that escape from traditional Eurocentric views. We work in long chronological frames and broad geographies, focusing on the territories that have Portuguese as one of their languages, asking ourselves how they are positioned in the world.

© 2023 A+I - All rights reserved.

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Leonor Matos Silva

EARLY RESEARCHER

EMAIL: leonormatossilva@outlook.com · COUNTRY: Portugal · SCIENCE ID: 8D1F-1DC9-7709 · ORCID: 0000-0002-8413-5003 · CURRENT AFFILIATION: ISCTE- DINAMIA’CET, Portugal

PhD in architecture (Iscte) funded by FCT. Postdoctoral fellowship from the R&D project “Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia”. Member and former Grant Holder Manager of the COST-Action MCMH-EU. Signatory of an Agreement for the study and disclosure of FAUL’s historical archives. Contracted to work on the R&D project “Coast to Coast – Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique)”. Presently Co-PI of the Exploratory Project “Women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa: gender and struggle for professional recognition (1953-1985)” along with PI Ana Vaz Milheiro. Integrated researcher and a Scientific Committee member of Dinâmia’CET and a member of the Portuguese Association of Architects.

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED CONFERENCES

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

MCMH: Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia

“Escola de Lisboa. Arquitectura e Cultura entre 1970 e 1986”

Optimistic Suburbia 4 – Full Papers’ Booklet

Optimistic Suburbia 2 – Book of Abstract

Optimistic Suburbia 2 – Proceedings