RELATED PROJECTS
RESEARCH TEAM
Ricardo Costa Agarez
ERC-REArq.IB
2021 — 2026
European Research Council Starting Grant (GA949686)
ReARQ.IB - Built Environment Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable Communities: Understanding Everyday Modern Architecture and Urban Design in the Iberian Peninsula (1939-1985)
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
Habitar Siza
2021 — 2024
Habitar Siza: a experiência e interacção dos residentes com a arquitectura e as micro-tecnologias de Álvaro Siza
RELATED NEWS
News
How does co-creating the stories of public facilities help to reimagine architecture as a collective practice?
24/11/2025
The International Journal of Public History has published the article Towards a Public Architectural History: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Engagement in Portugal and Spain, developed by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte – Ricardo Costa Agarez, Ana Mehnert Pascoal and Ivonne Herrera-Pineda.
Event
Arquitectura Aqui – Community, Proximity, Action: Collective Use Equipment in Portugal and Spain 1939-1985, with Ricardo Costa Agarez
13/11/2025
On 18 November 2025, Ricardo Costa Agarez will present and discuss the Arquitectura Aqui initiative at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Auditorium 306, at 6 P.M., marking the conclusion of the first semester of the Doctoral Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories 2025/2026.
News
NEI2025 - European Researchers Night
8/8/2025
DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte will participate in NEI2025 – European Researchers Night with the activity Arquitetura Aqui na Escola: Onde Andou na Primária?, organized by researchers Ana Mehnert Pascoal, Ana Rosado, Catarina Ruivo, and Ricardo Agarez.
Media
Ricardo Costa Agarez: Modern Architecture in the Algarve
05/09/2023
'Arquitectura do Algarve: quando a tradição casava com o modernismo' (Architecture in the Algarve: when tradition met modernism): Article on the architect Ricardo Costa Agarez's latest book A Construção do Algarve –Arquitetura Moderna, Regionalismo e Identidade no Sul de Portugal (1925-1965)
