Carlos Moura Martins is an architect and Assistant Professor of Design Studio in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra (UC), where he has taught since 1999. He graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in 1986 and practiced the liberal profession for two decades, collaborating with the architect Fernando Távora between 1986 and 2002. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Coimbra with a thesis on public works in Portugal in the late eighteenth century, which was awarded the Pina Manique International Research Prize by the Portuguese Academy of History. He is the author of the book "Os projetos para o porto de São Martinho e campos de Alfeizerão, 1774-1800" (Coimbra: Edarq, 2018), the book chapter "A aplicação da ciência à política do território na transição do século XVIII para o século XIX" (Coimbra: Coimbra University Press, 2017), and the editor of issue 7 of "Joelho, Journal of Architectural Culture", titled "Learning from Modern Utopias", with Armando Rabaça (December 2016). He has also contributed to various periodicals. He has been conducting studies on the technical and scientific activity of the Enlightenment, focusing on the institutionalization and development of Portuguese scientific culture and its dissemination in the European context. His primary research interests include the processes of transformation of urban space in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between the practice of military engineering and territorial development policies.