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Ajuda Neighbourhood. Bissau (c.1965) courtesy of Sandra Mula
Original house-type drawings, Ajuda Neighbourhood. Bissau (c.1965) [GB/INEP]; Ajuda Neighbourhood aerial view. Bissau (c.1966) [PT/IPAD/MU/DGOPC/DSUH/2070/11341-11346]
Ajuda house-type façade. Bissau (2021) ©Francesca Vita,2021

“Domestic architecture in dialogue. The role of the Portuguese colonization in the production of domestic spatiality in contemporary Guinea-Bissau”

Francesca Vita DOCTORAL THESIS

This doctoral research is framed within the debate on colonial legacy, focusing on domestic architecture: the house imagined, designed, built, and then used and transformed. Seeking a dialogue between the past and the present, between the intentions of the project and the everyday experience of the space, it critically frames the domestic architecture designed for African populations in the urban environment in the last decades of Portuguese colonization in Guinea-Bissau (1930-1974) and investigates the relationship between those populations and the inherited heritage. using the house as a critical tool, the research questions how colonialism operated through domestic architecture and discusses its legacy in the contemporary context.

YEAR:
2023
STATUS:
Concluded
INSTITUTION:
Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto
SCHOLARSHIP:
SFRH/BD/130890/2017
REPOSITORY:
Link
ORIGNAL TITLE:
"ARQUITETURA DOMÉSTICA EM DIÁLOGO.
O papel da colonização portuguesa na forma de construir
e habitar o espaço doméstico contemporâneo na Guiné-Bissau"
COVER IMAGE:
Ajuda Neighbourhood. Bissau (c.1965)
courtesy of Sandra Mula