O mosaico lisboeta - A cidade resultante do processo de financeirização da habitação

The city is fundamentally anchored in its housing function. This is what prevails in the structure of the built fabric and constitutes the main element of territorial cohesion. Embodying the ambiguity of being simultaneously a basic necessity and a financial asset, housing, despite being a constitutional right, has historically been viewed in Portugal as a market problem, with the State renouncing its responsibility as a provider in this area. The prevalence of a globalised and financialised ...

Glocal Tools: temporary urban actions for the collective production of space

Recently, an approach to urbanism has emerged that uses temporality as a possibility for experimentation and the inclusion of multiple actors as a democratic manifestation. The interventions utilizing this approach, perhaps defined as tactical urbanism or meanwhile uses, modify the urban as a process and not as a project, trying to transform local contexts with globally reproducible tools: glocal. The argument of this dissertation is that temporary actions are the most suitable tools ...

Reflexão Tectónica na Obra de Norman Foster + Partners

The present research proposes a theoretical and practical reflection on the applicability of tectonic theory in contemporary architecture. Based on the premise that the built environment-particularly buildings-has overly prioritized aesthetic appeal, challenging construction engineering and neglecting other equally relevant architectural aspects, there is a noticeable departure from the holistic quality once advocated by the Vitruvian triad principles (utilitas, firmitas, and venustas).Initia...

Retórica, coreografia, ficção, ou a autonomia e subjectividade de uma cena. Japão 1961-1985

This research analyzes the emergence, consolidation, and dispersion of a Japanese disciplinary scene between 1961 and 1985. This scene is defined by a rhizomatic network of works, architects, critics, and publications that, in response an economic, social, and cultural context, propose a conceptual reconfiguration of the single-family house as a disciplinary object. The thesis argues that this body of work constitutes a collective critical discourse, with the single-family house assuming the ...