Filipa Fiúza


Biography

Filipa Fiúza (Cacém, 1988) has completed the Masters Degree in Architecture (2010) in ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisbon University Institute), with the dissertation "An English Project: the influence of British architecture in the Alfragide Towers", of which an abridged version was published in the call for papers section of Jornal Arquitectos (the journal of the Portuguese architects association - Ordem dos Arquitectos). Co-organized "Habitar em Colectivo: arquitectura portuguesa antes do S.A.A.L." (ISCTE-IUL, 2009), an exhibition, conference and catalogue devoted to Portuguese multifamily housing between 1948 and 1974. Collaborated in several academic research projects such as "The Colonial Urbanization Offices: Architectural Culture and Practice" and "Homes for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda and Macao". Integrated as a researcher in the projects "Coast to Coast - Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique): Critical and Historical Analysis and Postcolonial Assessment" and "MCMH - Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia", coordinated by Ana Vaz Milheiro. Currently PhD student on Cultural Heritage of Portuguese Influence at the Centre for Social Studies and Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of Coimbra University.


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Vaz Milheiro, Ana; Fiúza, Filipa (2020), "Women Architects in Portugal: Working in Colonial Africa before the Carnation Revolution (1950", Arts, 9, 3, 86

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