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.

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State Servants' Housing Block, Vasco Vieira da Costa, Luanda, Angola (1965-1968). © Inês Lima Rodrigues, 2009.

School Comandante Saydi Mingas (old Liceu Almirante Lopes Alves), Francisco Castro Rodrigues Lobito, Angola (1960-1967). © Inês Lima Rodrigues, 2009.

Working session on Neighbourhood C.T.T., Luanda, Angola (1968-1969), Fernão Simões de Carvalho & Inês Lima Rodrigues, Atelier in Queijas, Portugal © Inês Lima Rodrigues, 26 June 2018.

“1st Monographic Modern Trilogy: Castro Rodrigues, Simões de Carvalho and Vieira da Costa”

Inês Lima Rodrigues POS-DOCTORAL RESEARCHES

The post-doctoral research on the Modern Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Portuguese-Angolan tropical architecture aims to recover a vision of modern architecture as a formal system still in force today, linking local culture with global influence, highlighting the work of Castro Rodrigues, Simões de Carvalho and Vieira da Costa. A Project methodology was developed to analyse the case studies to (re)know the past and the present and (re)think about the future. These three authors’ legacy represents Portuguese-Angolan architecture’s potential, underlining this singular heritage’s iconic, tectonic and programmatic qualities.

YEAR:
2017-2023

STATUS:
Concluded

INSTITUTION:
DINÂMIA'CET, Iscte-IUL

SCHOLARSHIP:
SFRH/BPD /117157/2016

ORIGINAL TITLE:
"I Trilogia Moderna Monográfica: Castro Rodrigues,
Simões de Carvalho e Vieira da Costa"