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
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Ricardo Costa Agarez participates in TSF in-depth report, on Portugal's Housing Crisis, by Rita Carvalho Pereira
20/05/2026
If housing is a constitutional right, is Portugal becoming a homeless nation? DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Ricardo Costa Agarez recently participated in a comprehensive TSF in-depth report, by Rita Carvalho Pereira, that scrutinizes the systemic challenges in the current property market and highlights the urgent need to reorganize public policies to address the realities of housing in the country.
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.
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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)
