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The aesthetic of Lisbon: Writing and practices during the early 20th century

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

My PhD thesis. Follows the abstract, the thesis can be read in its entirety here. This study tries to tackle the notion of “urban aesthetics” as it was articulated throughout the first three decades of the 20th century in Portuguese writing on the city, and practised in different forms of spatial production. A diffuse vocabulary – estética urbana, estética citadina, estética da cidade, das edificações, da rua … – signals a persistent understanding of the city as a work of art, both in the way it was experienced – an “urban aesthetic” – and contrived – an “urban aesthetics.

Urban aesthetics. On the modernity of Ventura Terra, architect and town planner

Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Book chapter published in Southern modernisms: From A to Z and back again, edited by Joana Cunha Leal, Maria Helena Maia and Begoña Farré (Porto: CEAA, IHA, 2015. pp. 99-124). The entire book is available at http://southernmodernisms.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/0/9/30098279/leal_j.c._%282015%29_southern_modernisms_-_from_a_to_z.pdf. The chapter is an extended version of a paper presented at the Conference “Southern Modernisms: critical stances through regional appropriations,” held in Porto, February 19-21, 2015.

Ventura Terra, modern town planner?

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented at the Conference “Southern Modernisms: critical stances through regional appropriations,” held in Porto, February 19-21, 2015, and published in the proceedings (see there for the images).