Colloquium

Designing History: technologies applied to research in urban morphology

Elwin Koster

Jean-Loup Abbé

Keith Lilley

November 11, 2010, 15h00

Seminar Room (2nd Floor), CES-Coimbra

Presentation: Walter Rossa

Abstract

Nowadays, urban morphology is a wide field of study, in which different disciplinary fields converge and several research lines diverge.Within the scope of the research that we have been developing until now, its main interest lies in decoding the arrangement and transformation matrices in order to be able to integrate that knowledge within the practice of Architecture, Urbanism and Urban and Regional Planning.

It is from this perspective that the present meeting, entitled “Designing History: technologies applied to research in urban morphology”, scheduled for November 11th, aims at monitoring similar proposals from European researchers.Through a critical and comparative perspective, we will present the most recent approaches to the subject, using several different instruments and methodologies.
This initiative is, thus, explained as follows:to openly discuss the different work methodologies and, also, to explore common work relationships which, by increasing critical mass, promote party efforts.