Research Group
Research Group
Research Group
DINÂMIA'CET-IUL
Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies
Assistant Researcher
Bruno Macedo Ferreira
research interests
Agents of production and urban transformation; Architecture and urbanism; Housing, habitat and ways of living; Regional and Urban Development Policies
Short Bio
Master in Architecture (ISCTE-IUL, 2010). In 2011 he began his professional career at PROMONTORIO where has developed activity in planning and architecture. In 2011, he started a research activity in the project "The Colonial Offices of Urbanization - Culture and Architectural Practice" (PTDC/AURAQI/104964/2008). He was also a researcher between 2013-15 in the project "Housing for the largest number: Luanda, Macau "(PTDC/ATP-AQI/3707/2012). PhD Studentship FCT (2012-16) is developing the PhD research in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories (ISCTE-IUL) "OPTIMISTIC SUBURBIA: a vision for the contemporary city. Critical reading on the urban-architectural configuration of the northern suburb of Lisbon"(SFRH/BD/80962/2011), which investigates the territorial, urban and architectural transformations that took place in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area between 1960 and 1986.
research project at dinâmia'cet-Iscte
Main publications
FERREIRA, Bruno Macedo (2016). Urbanização da Portela: um processo de urbanização paradigmático do crescimento suburbano ocorrido na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa. In MILHEIRO, Ana Vaz (coord.). Optimistic Suburbia? – The students’ perspective 2. Lisboa e a Área Metropolitana. Urbanismo Português no pós-guerra (1938-1998). Urbanização da Portela. Lisboa: FCT; DINÂMIA’CET-IUL; ISCTE-IUL, pp. 8-29
FERREIRA, Bruno Macedo (2015). Plano Director da Região de Lisboa, 1964: Linhas gerais para o desenvolvimento de uma nova estrutura territorial para a Área Metropolitana de Lisboa. In Actas/Proceedings: Optimistic Suburbia: Large housing complexes for the middle-class beyond Europe. Lisboa: ISCTE-IUL; DINAMIA’CET-IUL; CIAAM; FCT, pp. 215-242
FERREIRA, Bruno Macedo (2015). A configuração urbano-arquitetónica da periferia norte da cidade de Lisboa: Leitura a partir da obra do arquiteto Fernando Silva e da Urbanização da Portela. In MILHEIRO, Ana Vaz (coord.). Optimistic Suburbia? – The students’ perspective. Luanda, Lisbon, Macao. Lisboa: FCT; DINÂMIA’CET-IUL; ISCTE-IUL, pp. 193-200
FERREIRA, Bruno Macedo (2014). Unidade Residencial da Reboleira Sul. Critical reading of the “optimist suburbia” that Sá Rico designed and J. Pimenta built in the Lisbon suburb. In Our common future in Urban Morphology, vol.2. Porto: FEUP, pp. 773-787
FERREIRA, Bruno Macedo (2013). Optimist Suburbia: o início da Metrópole Contemporânea. Leitura crítica sobre a configuração urbano-arquitetónica da periferia norte da cidade de Lisboa. In Livro de Atas do 2º CIHEL e 1º CCRSEE – Habitação, Cidade, Território e Desenvolvimento. Lisboa: LNEC. pp. 113-4
Main projects
OPTIMISTIC SUBURBIA: a vision for the contemporary city. Critical reading on the urban-architectural configuration of the northern suburb of Lisbon (funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2012-2016) - SFRH/BD/80962/2011)
Homes for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda, Macao (funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2013 - 2015) - PTDC/ATP-AQI/3707/2012)
Colonial Urbanization Offices: Architectural Culture and Practice (funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2010-2013) - PTDC/AURAQI/104964/2008)
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