Luís Miguel Maldonado de Vasconcelos Correia
He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DA-UC) and PhD researcher in the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies – CEIS 20. He graduates in Architecture by the DA-UC in 1994. In 2008, he receives his Master from the Department of Civil Engineering of UC with the dissertation Castelos em Portugal: Retrato do seu perfil arquitectónico [1509-1949] (Castles in Portugal: Portrait of its architectonic profile [1509-1949]), which was published by Coimbra University Press in 2010. In 2016, he is awarded his PhD by the UC with the doctoral thesis Monumentos, Território e Identidade no Estado Novo: Da definição de um projecto à memorização de um legado (Cultural heritage, Territory and Identity in the New State: From the definition of a project to the remembrance of a legacy). He is author of several articles and communications, with particular investigational emphasis dedicated to the so-called cultural heritage and to its relationship that, since the eighteenth century, was established with the territory, the landscape, and most of all, with a certain idea of national identity. Since 1993, he is simultaneously engaged in architectural practice.