RELATED PROJECTS
RESEARCH TEAM
Ana Vaz Milheiro
ERC-ArchLabour
2024 — 2029
Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule
LabourMap-Macao
2025 — 2025
Mass labour impact on Public Works in Macau under Portuguese administration (1849-1999)
UrbanoScenes
2022 — 2025
UrbanoScenes. Post-colonial imaginaries of urbanisation: A future-oriented investigation from Portugal and Angola
ARCHWAR
2021 — 2024
Dominance and mass-violence through Housing and Architecture during colonial wars. The Portuguese case (Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique): colonial documentation and post-independence critical assessment
WomArchStruggle
2023 — 2024
Women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa: gender and struggle for professional recognition (1953-1985)
The Grand Projects
2018 — 2022
Architectural and Urbanistic Operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition
COAST TO COAST
2016 — 2019
Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique): Critical and Historical Analysis and Postcolonial Assessment
RELATED NEWS
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‘José Maneiras (1935-2025), um inventor da arquitectura macaense?’ – New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro in the newspaper Público
26/10/2025
New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro on the work and life of the architect José Maneiras as a central figure in Macanese architecture, is now available in the November 26, 2025 edition of the newspaper Público.
Photography by António Mil Homens.
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Asian (post)colonial works, labour and gender through the camera lens
04/09/2025
On September 18th, the session 'Asian (post)colonial works, labour and gender through the camera lens' will be held at the SAH Virtual conference. The session examines how photography intersects the histories of work, architecture, and gender in Asian (post)colonial contexts, particularly in Macau.
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Africana Studia: Proceedings of the 1st Colonial and Post-Colonial Congress
29/03/2024
Special Issue of the Africana Studia Journal dedicated to the proceedings of the 1st Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures Congress.
Newsletter
DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Newsletter #82: Editorial by Ana Vaz Milheiro
19/12/2023
Issue #82 (December-November) of D'C Newsletter, featuring an editorial by Ana Vaz Milheiro entitled Architecture & Research: Picasso's visit, is now available.
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Ana Vaz Milheiro Awarded ERC Advanced Grant
07/07/2023
Ana Vaz Milheiro has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, valued at approximately two and a half million euros.
Media
Ana Vaz Milheiro in Público
24/10/2024
Público newspaper has published an opinion article by Ana Vaz Milheiro, which features a critique of the renovation of the Centre for Modern Art (CAM) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
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Ana Vaz Milheiro: Manuel Graça Dias and Architecture as a Way to Think about the World
01/04/2019
'Manuel Graça Dias vivenciou a arquitectura não como uma militância política – apesar de ter sempre assumido a sua linhagem socialista –, mas como um modo de pensar o mundo.' Opinion article by Ana Vaz Milheiro to Ípsilon (Público)
