Sidh Losa Mendiratta


Biography

Sidh Losa Mendiratta graduated in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 2005, having also studied at Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (dARQ) and the Goa College of Architecture (GCA). In 2005-2008, he was a junior researcher in the project "Bombay Before the British" coordinated by Walter Rossa and Paulo Varela Gomes, and funded by the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT). He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Coimbra (2012, summa cum laude) funded by FCT. Since 2012, he holds the chair of History of Portuguese Architecture, in the Department of Architecture of Lusófona University of Porto (ULP). In 2013-2019 he was a post-doctoral researcher with the project "Framing Identity: cityscapes and architecture of Catholic origin in Mumbai (16th to 20th centuries)" funded by FCT. Since 2019 he is an integrated researcher in the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra with the project "Re-framing Identity: Management of Contested Cultural Heritage Sites in South and Southeast Asia" funded by FCT. Since January 2022, he is the Co-Principal Investigator of the research project "PORTofCALL. African-Asian-European Encounters: Cultural Heritage and Ports of Call in the Indian Ocean during the Early Modern Period" funded by COMPETE 2020 and FCT. In 2013 he was awarded the "Fernando Távora" prize by the Architects' Order of Portugal. He is the author of the books "The Church and Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Chimbel" (2021) and "Domus-fortis in Æquator: a segunda vida da casa-torre de origem Europeia no antigo Estado da Índia" (2019). Specializing in cultural heritage of Portuguese influence in South and Southeast Asia, he has conducted twenty-seven georeferenced topographic surveys of archaeological and architectural sites in India, collaborating with the Archaeological Survey of India, Fundação Oriente and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. In 2011, he was a visting scholar at the Xavier Centre for Historical Research, Goa. Author and/or co-author of more than sixty papers, including four papers for Society of Architectural Historians International Conference (2008, 2009, 2010, 2018).


Latest Publications

Article in Scientific journal

Mendiratta, Sidh Losa (2023), "An Early Modern Sacro Monte in Mumbai", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 82, 2, 150-169

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Book Chapter

Santiago Faria, Alice; Losa Mendiratta, Sidh (2023), Conflicted Identities: Bombay's Catholic communities, its buildings and the Press., in Alice Santiago Faria, Anne Shelley, Sandra Ataíde Lobo (org.), The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press. Routledge, 225-258

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Book

Losa Mendiratta, Sidh; Velho, Fernando (2021), The Church and Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Chimbel. Goa: Fundação Oriente / MCCAC

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