Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

CEAU

Centro de Estudos
de Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela

Tiago Castela (Lisbon, 1974) is a historian of architecture and spatial planning, as well as an architect. He does research on peripheral urbanism and the politics of housing, with a focus on Portugal and southern Africa in the late colonial period. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. His outside fields of study were Urban Geography and Global Planning Knowledge. He also holds a professional degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a researcher and an invited assistant professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he is affiliated with the interdisciplinary Center for Social Studies (CES) and the Department of Architecture. At CES, he contributes to the thematic line "(Semi)Peripheral Capitalism: Crises and Alternatives." He also teaches graduate seminars at the Faculty of Economics, and is a member of the faculty of the College of the Arts. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the exploratory research project "Regulating the Colonial Rural," and was the PI for the exploratory project "Urban Aspirations in Colonial/Postcolonial Mozambique," funded by the Portuguese state Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He is the main instructor for 3 doctoral seminars, on research design for the PhD in Architecture, on theories of space for the PhD in Cities and Urban Cultures, and on political spaces for the PhD in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship. He is currently the dissertation chair for 6 PhD students, and a co-advisor for 3 other PhD students. He is the co-advisor of 2 completed PhD dissertations, and has supervised 2 postdoctoral research fellows. He has lectured at the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), at University Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), as well as at various Portuguese universities; and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Internacional Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). His documentary "Urban Aspirations" (2016) was selected for inclusion in the online Film Geographies collection. He lives in Porto, Portugal with his 6-year-old daughter.

Identificação

Grau
Doutoramento
Categoria
Colaborador
Ano de Integração
2024
Nomes de Citação
Castela, Tiago
Ciência ID
B81C-F6C2-512D
Ciência Vitae ID
B81C-F6C2-512D
Orcid ID
0000-0002-0921-3470
Scopus ID
57202831234
Domínios de Atuação
Ciências Sociais - Geografia Económica e Social - Estudos Urbanos
Grupos de Investigação
Teoria e Práticas de Projeto (49%)
Morfologias e Dinâmicas do Território (51%)
Dedicação (Investigação)
20%

Formação

Concluído

Architecture

Doctor of Philosophy

"A Liberal Space: A History of the Illegalized Working-Class Extensions of Lisbon"

University of California Berkeley Department of Architecture, Estados Unidos


Concluído

Architecture

Licenciatura

Universidade Técnica de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Percurso Profissional

Ciência

Investigador

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais


Pós-doutorado

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais


Docência no Ensino Superior

Professor Auxiliar Convidado

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura

Projetos

Bolsa

Em curso

Dominance and mass-violence through Housing and Architecture during colonial wars.

Consultant

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

PTDC/ART-DAQ/0592/2020


Em curso

Regulating the Colonial Rural: Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism

Investigador responsável

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

EXPL/GES-URB/1284/2021


Em curso

Financialised housing in 21st century Portugal: Social representations, practices, and political stakes

Investigador

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

EXPL/PSI-GER/0269/2021


Concluído

Inhabiting in Financial Times: Housing and the Production of Space in Democratic Portugal

Investigador

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 140988


Concluído

Urban Aspirations in Colonial/Postcolonial Mozambique: Governing the Unequal Division of Cities, 1945-2010

Investigador responsável

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 131500


Projeto

Concluído

Task “Housing for More: Consolidation, Revolution, Decolonization, 1968-1982”

Investigador responsável

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Instituto da Habitação e Reabilitação Urbana (IHRU), Portugal

Habitação: 100 anos de Políticas Públicas em Portugal

Produções

Arte visual

Urban Aspirations (2016)

Castela, Tiago


Artigo em conferência

Publicado

[What higher education and knowledge in SSH in the 21st Century? The experience of AILPcsh and of the CONLAB.] Que educação superior e produção de conhecimentos em ciências sociais e humanas no século XXI? A experiência da AILPcsh e dos CONLAB.
Arte e Cultura na Identidade dos Povos: 19º Encontro AULP

Lisboa , Portugal

Castela, Tiago; Abreu, Cesaltina; Monteiro, Eurídice; Mello, Marina; Cardoso, Ricardo; Freire, Jacqueline

isbn: 978-989-8271-20-4


Publicado

[For Common Universities: Space and Genealogy of Emergences in Contemporary European Universities.] Por Universidades Comuns: Espaço e Genealogia das Emergências na Universidades Europeias Contemporâneas.
IX Congresso Português de Sociologia

Portugal

Carrozza, Chiara; Castela, Tiago


Publicado

[Tradition of property? Delegitimation and everyday geographies of renting in Portugal, 1974-1982.] Tradição da propriedade? Deslegitimação e geografias quotidianas do arrendamento em Portugal, 1974-1982.
9th Conference of Portuguese Geography

Porto

Castela, Tiago

doi: 10.18803/capsi.v17.185-193


Publicado

Knowledge Formation by Architects and Workers in Assisted Self-help: Recalling the Fractured History of Portuguese Experiments from the Dictatorships to Political Democracy, 1950-1980
Fourth International Conference of the European Architectural History Network

Dublin

Castela, Tiago; Bandeirinha, José António


Publicado

Opening Keynote Lecture: Towards a Science of Sea Space
Heritages and Memories from the Sea

Évora

Castela, Tiago


Artigo em jornal

[Ceci n'est pas a National Housing Program] Ceci n'est pas um Programa Nacional da Habitação

Público

Rede H

https://www.publico.pt/2021/12/27/opiniao/opiniao/ceci-nest-pas-programa-nacional-habitacao-1989949


Artigo em revista

Em revisão

“[Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism in Guinea] Aldeamento de Guerra no Colonialismo Português Tardio na Guiné”

e-cadernos CES

Aristides, Rui; Castela, Tiago

Acesso Aberto


Aceite para publicação

[From Countryside Education to the Right to the Countryside? Situated Practices and Discourses of Portuguese Rurality] Da Educação do Campo ao Direito ao Campo? Práticas e Discursos Situados do Rural Português

Roteiro

Emiliana Marques; Castela, Tiago

Acesso Aberto


Publicado

Daydream Continent: Europe as a Space-Time Horizon in Architectural History

Architectural Histories, 6, 1: 1-7

Castela, Tiago

Acesso Aberto

http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ah.274

issn: 2050-5833
doi: 10.5334/ah.274
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/80343


Publicado

[The space-time of forced refuge: colonial villagization in the formation of the state?] O Espaço-tempo do Refúgio Forçado: Os Aldeamentos Coloniais na Formação do Estado?

Biblos, 4: 13-30

Castela, Tiago

Acesso Aberto

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/0870-4112_3-4_1

issn: 2183-7139
issn: 0870-4112
doi: 10.14195/0870-4112_3-4_1
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/81720


Publicado

[For Situated Histories of Urban Division: The Illegalized Extensions of Lisbon in the Social Harmony Program of the Dictatorships in Portugal.] Por Historias Situadas de la División Urbana: Las Extensiones Ilegalizadas de Lisboa en el Programa de Armonía Social de las Dictaduras en Portugal.

Estudios del ISHiR, 5, 11: 10-36

Castela, Tiago

Acesso Aberto

http://revista.ishir-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/417

issn: 2250-4397
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/44002


Artigo em revista (magazine)

Politics of Housing and Architecture in Portugal: An Interview with Helena Roseta

Jornal dos Arquitectos

Eliana Pereira de Sousa Santos; Castela, Tiago


[Investment, housing vulnerabilities and transversal problems in the Recovery and Resilience Plan] Investimento, vulnerabilidades habitacionais e problemas transversais no PRR

Le Monde Diplomatique (Portuguese Edition) , 176

Rede H

https://pt.mondediplo.com/2021/06/investimento-vulnerabilidades-habitacionais-e-problemas-transversais-no-prr.html


[Ambiguities of Cosmopolitanism and Financialization: Recalling the 2004 Mérida competition.] Ambiguidades do Cosmopolitismo e da Financeirização: Recordando o Concurso de Mérida de 2004.

Arqa: Arquitetura e Arte

Castela, Tiago

issn: 1647- 077X


[A Liberal Space.] Um Espaço Liberal.

Arquitectura 21

Castela, Tiago


Capítulo de livro

Publicado

[I used to come for walks here in the 1980s] Eu por acaso vinha fazer aqui caminhadas nos anos 80

[I Did Not Even Know That Marvila Existed] Eu Nem Sabia Que Marvila Existia, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa: 5-others

Castela, Tiago


Publicado

Empire in the City? Politicizing Urban Memorials of Colonialism Today

Instituto - Yearbook '20, Instituto: 34-37

Castela, Tiago


Publicado

[Propertied citizenship and the emergence of the financialization of housing in Portugal after 1968] Cidadania proprietária e emergência da financeirização da habitação em Portugal após 1968

A nova questão da habitação: uma abordagem de economia política , Conjuntura Actual Editora: 259-274

Castela, Tiago


Publicado

[The Housing Development Fund from 1969 to 1982: Order, alternatives, and market.] O Fundo de Fomento da Habitação de 1969 a 1982: Ordenamento, alternativas, e mercado.

Habitação: Cem Anos de Políticas Públicas em Portugal, 1918-2018. , Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana: 234-279

Bandeirinha, José António; Castela, Tiago; Alves, Joana Gouveia; Aristides, Rui

isbn: 978-972-27-2711-2
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/86340


Publicado

Empire in the City: Politicizing Urban Memorials of Colonialism in Portugal and Mozambique

Whose Tradition? Discourses on the Built Environment, Routledge: 188-209

Castela, Tiago

isbn: 9781138192072
isbn: 9781315640112


Documento de trabalho

Imperial Garden: Planning Practices and the Utopia of Luso-Tropicalism in Portugal/Mozambique, 1945-1975

Castela, Tiago


Contending Tradition: Planning Working-Class Extensions of the City in Late Twentieth Century Portugal

Castela, Tiago


Entrada de dicionário

Publicado

Academic Employment

Words beyond the pandemic: a hundred-sided crisis: 14

Castela, Tiago

https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/palavras-pandemia/?lang=2&id=30510

handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/90693
isbn: 978-989-8847-25-6


Publicado

Housing Architecture

Words beyond the pandemic: a hundred-sided crisis: 56

Castela, Tiago

https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/palavras-pandemia/?lang=2&id=30508

handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/90634
isbn: 978-989-8847-25-6


Resumo em conferência

Publicado

Architecture as a State Expertise: Imagining a New Tradition in Portugal's Housing Development Fund, 1969-1982
International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments [IASTE] conference

Nottingham , Reino Unido

Castela, Tiago


Tese / Dissertação

A Liberal Space: A History of the Illegalized Working-Class Extensions of Lisbon

Doutoramento

Castela, Tiago

University of California Berkeley Department of Architecture, Estados Unidos

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fj0856h

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Manuals of global counterinsurgency in late colonial war: guiding the architecture of Portugal's forced resettlement camps in Africa, 1961-74

EAHN 2022


Strategic Hamlets in Portuguese Guinea: Their Designed Intent and the Afterlife

Decolonization Seminars

CSU Bakersfield


Regulating the Colonial Rural: Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism

Race and Architecture Lecture Series

Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley


Politics of Housing after 1945 in Portugal and the USA: the Legacy of a Disjunctive Dialogue

3rd Fulbright Alumni Conference Cycle

Fulbright Portugal


Architecture as a state expertise: imagining a new tradition in Portugal's Housing Development Fund, 1969-1982

International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments [IASTE] conference


Curso / Disciplina lecionado

Instructor of record, "Doctoral Seminar #1"

Cities and Urban Cultures

Doutoramento

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal


Co-instructor, "Dissertation Prospectus" doctoral seminar, with instructors of record José António Bandeirinha (2016-2022) and Paulo Providência (2020)

Architecture

Doutoramento

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal


Instructor of record, “Political Spaces in the Postcolonial State” doctoral seminar

Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship

Doutoramento

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal


Membro de associação

Advisory Board

International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)


Reviews Editor and President of the Fiscal Board

Association for Portuguese-Language Social Sciences and Humanities (AILPcsh)


Treasurer

Association for Portuguese-Language Social Sciences and Humanities (AILPcsh)


Organização de evento

Local Coordinator, IASTE 2018 “The Politics of Tradition”, Coimbra, Portugal

Coorganizador, Conferência

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal


Chair, Paper Session "Heritage and History in sub-Saharan Africa”, 70th Annual International Conference, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Glasgow, Scotland

Outra, Conferência

Society of Architectural Historians, Estados Unidos


Orientação

TBD

Political Economy - Doutoramento

Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela - Orientador

Ferlanda Luna - Candidato

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal


Modernity, dictatorship and eugenics: the construction and collapse of an artificial society in the Amazon.

Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship - Doutoramento

Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela - Orientador

Priscilla Brasil - Candidato

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal


The Right to the Country: Education, Culture and Social Mobilization in Portuguese Everyday Life

Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship - Doutoramento

Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela - Orientador

Emiliana Marques - Candidato

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal


Psychic ruins of colonialism in neoliberal times: contributions from an ethnography of youth quotidians in São Paulo, Brazil

Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship - Doutoramento

Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela - Orientador

Isabela Lemos - Candidato

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal


From the drawing board to the construction site: How to collective inhabit the architectural project

Architecture - Doutoramento

Tiago Luís Lavandeira Castela - Coorientador

Bernardo Amaral - Candidato

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal

Distinções

Prémio

FCT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal


Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Grant for PhD

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal


Fulbright/Luso-American Foundation Grant for PhD

United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Fulbright Program, Estados Unidos