Profile

Email

ID11048@alunos.uminho.pt

Science ID

0710-37BF-01B6

Ciênciavitae

ORCID

Lab2PT Group

DeTech - Design and Technology

Scientific Area

Architecture

Supervision

Elisiário Miranda

Project Title

The Contemporary Condition of Angolan Architecture: The Architecture of the Modern Movement in Luanda in its relationship with the Corbusian Paradigms in the Work of Vasco Vieira da Costa

Abstract

After colonisation, despite the prolonged civil war, the city of Luanda still has a mass of buildings that can be identified as colonial production, and therefore belonging to the modernist style. The figure of Vasco Vieira da Costa as an influential Modernist architect in Luanda is preponderant, his works covering a variety of programmes and typologies, from As Cidades Satélites to Mercado do Quinaxixe, making it possible to study the influence of the Modernist Movement on Luanda's society, and in a deductive way, to discuss the impact of colonialism on the built environment and the creation of racial differences in urban and architectural spaces. In the context of trying to recognise the buildings of the Modern Movement in Luanda as architectural heritage, the question arises: what is "heritage" from the perspective of those (people) who have been colonised?

Keywords

Modern Movement in Luanda, Colonialism, Le Corbusier, Vasco Vieira da Costa, Decolonization

Organic Unit

School of Architecture, Art and Design of University of Minho