Castela, Tiago Luís Lavandeira

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Tiago Luís Lavandeira

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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 an invited assistant professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he was previously affiliated with the interdisciplinary Center for Social Studies (CES). He also taught 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 research project "Rural Decolonization", and was previously the PI for the exploratory research projects "Regulating the Colonial Rural" and "Urban Aspirations in Colonial/Postcolonial Mozambique," all funded by the Portuguese state Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He is the instructor for 1 doctoral seminar, on research design for the PhD in Architecture, as well for an undergraduate class on "Architecture and Urban Culture". He is currently the dissertation chair for 9 PhD students, and a co-advisor for 6 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.

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CIAUD-UPT - Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design
O Centro de Investigação Gallaecia é responsável pela investigação e produção científica do DAMG. A equipa tem ganho regularmente financiamento para projetos de investigação, como coordenador ou parceiro, em candidaturas da FCT (projeto SEISMIC-V), programa Cultura 2000 (projeto VerSus) ou da Europa Criativa (projeto 3DPAST). A equipa realiza igualmente, consultoria e prestação de serviços a Municípios, assim como apoio às comunidades nas Juntas de Freguesia e Santa Casa da Misericórdia. Os principais projetos de investigação ganhos e coordenados pela equipa têm sido dedicados sobretudo a património vernáculo, arquitetura de terra, Património Mundial e multimédia. Atualmente, encontram-se em desenvolvimento, os projetos “Versus+: Heritage for People” do programa Europa Criativa, com participação de 4 países (2019-2023); e o projeto “SizaAtlas: Filling the gaps” projeto FCT, coordenado pelo ISCTE, com parceria da FAUP e da UPT (2021-2024). Devido ao desenvolvimento ativo de projetos, de formação e capacitação, de valorização e proteção de património vernáculo e de arquitetura de terra, a equipa foi outorgada, com a Cátedra UNESCO de “Arquitetura de Terra, Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Culturas Construtivas”, da UNITWIN e Chaire UNESCO da CRAterre; e é membro institucional da Rede Ibero-americana PROTERRA de arquitetura e construção com terra.

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    On Relational Histories of Spatial Law and Transgression
    2025-09-03 - Castela, Tiago Luís Lavandeira
    This chapter explores a particular aspect of spatial transgression, based on Henri Lefebvre’s conception of space–time as a category that involves both the built environment and social space, and inspired by the work of urbanist Ananya Roy and architectural historian Nezar AlSayyad on inhabitation under conditions of urban informality. My interest in the latter arose from my embodied, situated knowledge as a Lisboner, intrigued that Urban Informality did not include a chapter on an European city. Growing up, I often did not have school in the afternoons, and with a couple of other unwitting teenage derivists, took buses to the end of the line, and walked around. Much later, when I started preliminary doctoral fieldwork and walking around the informally created subdivi sion of Casal de Cambra (Fig. 3.1), the motivations of the first dwellers were both unexpected and sensible: they had moved from central Lisbon in the 1960s due to a lack of affordable housing, instead of being the rural migrants described in most accounts.