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RELATED NEWS
Media
Essay by Sandra Marques Pereira: “Build-to-rent: a panacea for the housing crisis or its accelerator?”
12/12/2025
In today's edition of Expresso, Sandra Marques Pereira, authors a feature essay in the Ideias supplement, critically analysing the build-to-rent housing policies.
Event
Care(4)Housing: Final Presentation
10/12/2025
We invite you to the Final Presentation of the Care(4)Housing project – A care through design approach to address housing precarity, funded by FCT (PTDC/ART-DAQ/0181/2021). The presentation will be held on 15 December at 16:30, at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Floor 3, Auditorium A302.
News
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte marks the passing of architect Frank Gehry by sharing the lecture “Frank Urbanism: Gehry Takes Up Cities” delivered by Jean-Louis Cohen
09/12/2025
DINÂMIA’CET marks the passing of architect Frank Gehry on December 5 by sharing the lecture “Frank Urbanism: Gehry Takes Up Cities” delivered by Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023) at the International Congress “Grand Projects – Urban Legacies of the Late 20th Century” (2019).
News
'Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House' – by Sandra Marques Pereira, Tânia Lemos, Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez
28/11/2025
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers Sandra Marques Pereira and Tânia Lemos co-authored the chapter ‘Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House’ with Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez, for the Routlegde Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology.
Media
‘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.
News
Housing Exclusion and Mental Health: Lídia Fernandes co-authors a new chapter for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado
25/11/2025
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher Lídia Canha Fernandes, co-authored the chapter Exclusão Habitacional, Saúde Mental e Novas Substâncias Psicoativas (Housing Exclusion, Mental Health and New Psychoactive Substances), with Paulo Vitorino Fontes, Hélder Fernandes, and João Mendes Coelho, for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado.
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.
Media
Issue 50 of the journal CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios
21/10/2025
The latest issue of CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios is out, including a thematic dossier on Urban Rivers.
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
How can the adaptive reuse of monastic and conventual heritage in low-density rural areas contribute to cultural resilience and inclusive territorial development?
11/11/2025
The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development has published the article: Connecting adaptive reuse with cultural resilience frameworks: assessing monastic and conventual heritage in Southern Portugal, by Rolando Volzone (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte), Sofia Costa Macedo(CIES-Iscte), Elisabete Tomaz (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte)
Event
Conference O Jardim de Epicuro e o Realismo da Nova Arquitetura Portuguesa
06/11/2025
As part of the PhD Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon is pleased to host the conference: O Jardim de Epicuro e o Realismo da Nova Arquitetura Portuguesa (The Garden of Epicurus and the Realism of the New Portuguese Architecture). The session will take place on 12 November 2025, at 3:00 PM, in Auditorium B302, Building 2.
