Casa da Arquitectura Centro Português de Arquitectura

Doctoral scholarships: 27 applications submitted

The collections of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Luis Ferreira Alves were the most targeted by the researchers, who are essentially divided into two nationalities: Portuguese and Brazilian.

Although the topics of study focus on more general areas such as public housing, for example, the proposals selected also deal with aspects of the collections of Jorge Gigante, Fernanda Seixas, Teresa Fonseca and Pedro Ramalho, which are in the care of the House Archives.
Nuno Sampaio, executive director of Casa da Arquitectura, is pleased with the results of this first competition, both ‘in terms of the number of applications received and the quality of the themes proposed’ and, he emphasises, ‘in terms of what these works represent in terms of valuing architectural collections and the production of knowledge that results from them’.

Knowledge that, he recalls, ‘will be favoured in the future by the institution's editorial publications’.

The 10 applications selected are ‘very interesting research projects to which Casa da Arquitectura will make a unique and unquestionable contribution’, says the president of the jury, architect Nuno Grande, for whom the future expectation is that ‘it will be possible to deepen and explore other dimensions of the vast collection that Casa da Arquitectura has’.

Selected projects

1 - João Carlos de Almeida Gaspar

From the common housing project: architectural proposals for access to housing and collective habitat

2 - André Rodrigues Marques

Language and radicalism in the work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Eduardo Souto de Moura

3 - Francisco Miguel Teixeira Alves

Road To Nowhere: Parallel Paths and Fragmented Histories in Portuguese Architecture, 1948-1998

4 - Maria Luísa Penha Souto de Moura

Architecture after the Architect: matter, time and life. A return to Eduardo Souto de Moura's first houses

5 - Frederico Emanuel Simão Vicente

Luís Ferreira Alves: images of architecture, architectures of images

6 - Filipa de Paiva Ardérius

Memory, Language, Form in the Sacred Work of Álvaro Siza

7 - Elsa Maria Alves Caetano

Building Connections: The Impact of Structural and Connective Prefabrication Methods on Design and Construction Methodologies in Europe from the 20th Century onwards

8 - Rita de Almeida C. Machado L. S. Lima

Project, Heritage and Identity. Transformation and continuity in the Bolhão Market redevelopment process

9 - Arthur Montenegro de Oliveira

‘Heritage interventions by the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Analysing design strategies in existing architecture’

10 - Adriana Leal Pacheco

Theory and practice in the architect's craft: The experimental character in the work of architect Pedro Ramalho.

Casa da Arquitectura has opened a call for 10 PhD Research Scholarships in the field of Architecture, Urbanism and Territory, with a special focus on the collections of Casa da Arquitectura - Centro Português de Arquitectura and content related to the history of architecture, construction technology, sustainability and energy saving, under the FCT Research Scholarship Regulations (RBI) and the Research Scholarship Holder Statute (EBI).

The scholarships are funded by FCT under the Protocol between this institution and Casa da Arquitectura, which runs until 2026.