About
I am an architectural historian and a historic preservationist specializing in the western Mediterranean and Portuguese-speaking world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My research explores the interfaces between traditional and modern construction as well as between the ‘learned’ architecture of classicism and vernacular typologies.
I am currently associate professor at the University of Brasilia School of Architecture and Urbanism and a visiting scholar affiliated with the TechNetEmpire research project at the NOVA University, Lisbon. I am a member of the Documentation committee of Icomos Brazil. Education
B.S. in Architecture from the University of Maryland, M.A. in Architectural History and Theory, and Ph.D. in Architectural aesthetics and semiology from the University of Brasilia. Mastodon Feed
A lesser-known fact about classical pilasters is they prevent piping and wiring from getting through. This is why the ancient Romans couldn’t have baths and why everyone before the Werkbund lived in the dark. (2023-09-15 ↗)
“Starting in the 19th century, archaeologists helped create a recurrent theme, or trope, about social collapse and abandonment that was figurative and metaphorical…” https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/indigenous-people-archaeology/ (via @jens2go) (2023-09-10 ↗)
Pour mémoire, l’une des premières choses que les missionnaires catholiques ou protestant imposaient aux convers coloniaux était le port de vêtements européens. Donc, pantalons, jupes et chemises ne sont pas plus « laïques » que l’abaya. (2023-09-04 ↗)
Has anyone ever run into the Jekyll error “undefined method `yaml_file?'” in a Docker container only in GitHub Actions, though the same container works fine in a local build? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75801199/jekyll-undefined-method-yaml-file-in-github-actions (2023-03-21 ↗)
Nesta quarta-feira, 08/03 pelas 14h, vou apresentar a conferência “Teorias da história da arquitetura no ensino profissional: (anti)disciplinaridade e crítica”, com a participação de Tiago Castela (organizador e moderador) e Jorge Figueira (comentador). Sala T2 do DArq, Universidade de Coimbra. Promovido pelo CES. Mais informações: https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2023/teorias-da-historia-da-arquitetura-no-ensino-profissional (2023-03-03 ↗)
Blog Posts
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Hello world!
(História da Arquitetura e da Arte I,
2021-07-06)
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Introdução: das reminiscências ao revivalismo
(Neoárabe,
2021-05-17)
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Urbanismo arabizado e des-arabizado
(Neoárabe,
2021-05-17)
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Heranças árabes na domesticidade luso-brasileira
(Neoárabe,
2021-05-17)
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Mourisco, moçárabe ou mudéjar?
(Neoárabe,
2021-05-17)
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A “contaminação” mourisca do neoclassicismo no Brasil imperial
(Neoárabe,
2021-05-17)
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The death and life of “operative history”
(Arch.Theory,
2020-04-03)
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Claiming disciplinary boundaries for typology
(Arch.Theory,
2020-03-11)
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Procedural Typology
(Arch.Theory,
2018-08-27)
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Morphological studies and architectural history
(Arch.Theory,
2018-08-20)
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About this site
(Arch.Theory,
2018-08-19)
Projects
- 2018–2022 — Classic, Traditional, Eclectic: nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the industrial city
- 2020–2024 — Adaptive strategies in late traditional building in Portugal and Brazil
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
‘The death and life of “operative history”: dialogues between historiography and design theory in contemporary Italy’ EAHN conference 3rd June 2021 9:00–11:45, paper session 02. Memberships
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Association Francophone pour l’Histoire de la Construction (AFHC)
International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture, and Urbanism (INTBAU)
