Eliana Pereira de Sousa Santos (391C-C63E-25DA)

Curriculum Vitae

Eliana Pereira de Sousa Santos

Eliana Sousa Santos is an architect, a researcher and an assistant professor of architecture. She was awarded the Fernando Távora Prize in 2017, and since then has been publishing her essays in the press. She is the co-author of "Primavera Tardia: Uma Viagem Pela Memória e Paisagem do Japão" (2021) a Finalist Book of the FAD Awards in the category of Thought and Criticism. Her most recent book is "Paisaje pintoresco y entornos adecuados" (2023), a work that was one of the two manuscripts selected for publication in the 2021 international call for books by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Ediciones Asimétricas. She was the curator of the exhibition The Shape of Plain (Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon 2016/17), an associate project of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2016. She was a visiting postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University in 2013/14. She is a researcher at CES, University of Coimbra. She has a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon, a master degree from University of Coimbra and a PhD from the University of London. She has taught at ESAD.CR and is currently invited assistant professor at Dept. of Architecture of ISCTE in Lisbon.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Eliana Pereira de Sousa Santos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 391C-C63E-25DA
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3043-7049

Email addresses

esousasantos@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

www.elianasousasantos.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Education

	Degree	Classification
2010 Concluded	PhD London Consortium (Doctor of Philosophy) University of London, United Kingdom "Landscape, picturesque and fit environments: operative concepts in architecture, 1945-1985" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Awarded, without corrections

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2013 - 2014	Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow	Yale University School of Architecture, United States

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2011 - 2017	George Kubler’s Shape of Time: The Historiographical effect of Portuguese Plain Architecture in Post- revolutionary Portugal SFRH/BPD/68962/2010 Post-doc Fellow Yale University School of Architecture, United States Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Concluded
2005 - 2010	Landscape, picturesque and fit environments: operative concepts in architecture, 1945-1985 SFRH/BD/22632/2005 PhD Student Fellow Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom	Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018 - 2022	(EU)ROPA: Rise of Portuguese Architecture POCI-01-0145FEDER-030492 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019 - 2021/11/02	Writing Urban Places, New Narratives of the European City CA 18126 Science and Technology Management Fellow	European Cooperation in Science and Technology Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Santos, Eliana Sousa. "Reyner Banham’s Desert Landscapes". In Changing Representation of Nature and the City: The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies, edited by Gabriel Gee; Alison Vogelaar. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019. Published Santos, Eliana Sousa. "Portuguese Plain Architecture: A journey since the 1950s to the present". In 74-14 SAAL and Architecture, edited by José António Bandeirinha ; Delfim Sardo; Gonçalo Canto Moniz, 121-126. Coimbra, Portugal: edarq, 2016. Published Santos, Eliana Sousa. "The opacity of landscape". In Ideology in Transparency: PhD Dialogues, edited by Emanuel Sousa; Kirk Wooler, 125-130. United Kingdom: Architectural Association, 2010. Published
Conference abstract	Santos, Eliana. "Revolutionary Aesthetics: Plain Architecture in Architectural Discourse". Paper presented in The Politics of Tradition: Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Coimbra, 2018. Published
Journal article	Sousa Santos, Eliana. "History becoming Theory: George Kubler and Portuguese Plain". Architecture and Culture 4 3 (2016): 425-434. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2016.1239917. Published • 10.1080/20507828.2016.1239917 Santos, Eliana Sousa. "George Kubler Shifting South: Architecture history following geopolitics". RIHA Journal 0138 (2016): http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2016/0131-0140-special-issue-southern-modernisms/0138-sousa-santos. Open access • Published Santos, Eliana; Santos, Eliana Sousa. "Portuguese Plain Architecture: History opening a closed sequence". Revista de História da Arte 10 (2012): 177-187. https://institutodehistoriadaarte.wordpress.com/revista-de-historia-da-arte-n-o-10-indice/. Open access • Published
Journal issue	Santos, Eliana Sousa. "Systems of History: George Kubler’s Portuguese Plain Architecture". CES Contexto Debates 3 (2013): http://hdl.handle.net/10316/35341. Published • Editor
Thesis / Dissertation	Santos, Eliana. "Landscape, Picturesque and Fit-Environments: Operative Concepts in Architecture, 1945-1985". PhD, Birkbeck University of London, 2010.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

Santos, Eliana Sousa; Ad Reinhardt; Robert Smithson ; George Kubler; Paulo Varela Gomes; João Vieira Caldas. 2016. "The Shape of Plain // A Forma Chã".

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2018/12	Lisbon Representation in the Film "Storm over Lisbon"	A cidade como estúdio: Topografias Imaginárias Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa (Lisboa , Portugal)
2018/11	Earthworks e Works of Art: Creation and Destruction of the American Landscape	Corpo, Espaço, Matéria Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/11	From Castor to Castorp: Magic Mountains	Montanha Mágica: Arte e Paisagem UBI Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2017/12	Female Architects in Academia	Arquitectas: Modos de Resistir Ordem dos Arquitectos, Secção Regional Sul (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/10	America Deserta: Landscape, Art and Architecture in the American Southwest	Prémio Fernando Távora Ordem dos Arquitectos Portugueses, Secção Regional Norte (Porto, Portugal)
2017/10	America Deserta: Landscape, Art and Architecture in the American Southwest	Conference DINAMA CET ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/10	America Deserta: Landscape, Art and Architecture in the American Southwest	Apresentação Prémio Fernando Távora Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2017/02	More Justice: A walk through a personal path	MORE: Third International Congress on Architecture and Gender UniFi School of Architecture (Florence, Italy)
2016/06	Family of Minds: Plain Arts	EAHN Dublin 2016: European Architectural History Network 4th International Meeting University College Dublin (Dublin , Ireland)
2016/02	The Space of History: Architectural History of Architecture	Pedro Vieira de Almeida and the Architectural History of Architecture ESAP (Porto, Portugal)
2015/11	History becoming Theory: George Kubler and Portuguese Plain	This Thing Called Theory, 12th AHRA Conference Architectural Humanities Research Association (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2015/10	Portuguese Plain Architecture: When history creates a myth	EAHN International Scientific Thematic Conference Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)
2015/06	Portuguese Plain Architecture: From 1950s to the Present	Plain Architecture: Conceptual Use(less)fulness Instituto de História da Arte, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/06	Mapping a Coral Reef: George Kubler and the recent history of Portuguese architecture	History of Architectural Historiography NTNU (Trondheim, Norway)
2015/02	Shifting South: Architecture History following Geopolitics	Southern Modernisms: Critical Stances through Regional Appropriations Escola Superior Artística do Porto, ESAP (Porto, Portugal)
2014/11	Portuguese Plain Architecture: A journey since the 1950s to 1990s	74/14 SAAL Architecture International Colloquium on Housing and Participation University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/05	Reyner Banham’s Desert Landscapes	Changing Representations of Nature Franklin University (Lugano , Switzerland)
2014/03	Art Architecture and The Shape of Time: George Kubler and Contemporary Architecture	Modernist Historiography Seminar Yale School of Architecture (New Haven, United States)
2013/10	Plain Style: Portugal and Beyond	Presences of Lusophone Culture in Modern and Contemporary Periods University of Montréal (Montréal, Canada)
2013/05	Portuguese Plain Architecture: Historiography and Architectural Practice	Cultural Encounters in the Luso Hispanic World Warwick University (Warwick, United Kingdom)
2012/04	Opening a Closed Sequence: Portuguese Plain Architecture	SAH 65th Annual Meeting Society of Architectural Historians SAH (Detroit, United States)
2011/02	Landscape before Ecology: Art and Science as Cold War Strategies	Theoriesalon 3, Expanded Design Theoriesalon (Vienna, Austria)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017 - 2018	Architecture as Frontline Supervisor	Architecture (Master) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Macrominimal: Processos emergentes na prática arquitectónica Supervisor	Architecture (Master) Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2015 - 2017	Caminhar: (re)descobrir a ruína na paisagem açoriana Supervisor	Architecture (Master) Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2015 - 2015	Matrices: Second International Congress on Architecture and Gender (2015 - 2015) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2012 - 2012	Systems of History: George Kubler Portuguese Plain Architecture (2012 - 2012) Symposium	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/01 - 2019/01	Co-chaired Panel: Globalized Regionalism: The Inheritance of Colonial Infrastructure Congress	Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructure ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2017/02 - 2017/02	Co-chaired Panel: Globalized Regionalism and Modernist Aesthetics in the Built Environment Conference	CAA College Art Association 105th Annual Conference College Art Association, United States

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2018 - 2018	IASTE 2018: The Politics of Tradition	Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra
2017 - 2017	MORE: Third International Congress on Architecture and Gender	UniFi Escola de Arquitectura
2014 - 2014	First International Congress on Architecture and Gender. ArquitectAS: redefiniendo la profesión	ETSA Universidad de Sevilla

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018 - Current	Architecture and the City II	Architecture (Mestrado integrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal
2017 - Current	Architecture and the City I	Architecture (Mestrado integrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal
2017 - Current	Cultura Metropolitana Contemporânea	Arquitectura dos Territórios Metropolitanos Contemporâneos (Doutoramento)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Tecnologias e Arquitectura, Portugal
2018 - 2018	History of Architecture in Portugal II	Architecture (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2015 - 2018	Research Laboratories in Architecture	Architecture (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Research Methods in Architecture	Architecture (Doutoramento)	Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2015 - 2017	Research Methods in Architecture	Architecture (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2014 - 2015	Introduction to History and Theory of Architecture II	Architecture (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Theories and Histories of Space / Teorias e Histórias do Espaço	Design de Ambientes (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Research Methods in Architecture	Architecture (Doutoramento)	Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2018 - 2018	RHA Revista de História da Arte (1646 -1762)	Instituto de História da Arte
2016 - 2016	Sociedad y Utopia (2254-724X)	Fundación Pablo VI

Distinctions

Award

2017	Fernando Távora Prize

Other distinction

2019	Shortlisted Candidate Curatorial Proposal for the Portuguese Representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale Direcção Geral das Artes, Portugal