Teacher
Joana Couceiro

Resume

Joana Couceiro is an Architect and Researcher with a focus on creative processes and Álvaro Siza's works. She graduated from the University of Coimbra (Darq FCTUC) in 2005 and earned her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 2018. Her doctoral thesis, "Chiado e Estilo", was a finalist for the 2021 Arquia Foundation Biennial competition. Currently an Assistant Researcher at the Nuno Portas Centre for Studies (CENP/FAUP), her trajectory is defined by leadership in competitive scientific funding. She served as Principal Investigator (PI) for the EIT-funded project "Porto Think Tanks" (New European Bauhaus) and as co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) for the FCT-funded project "Siza Baroque" (SIZA/CPT/0021/2019). She currently teaches History of Portuguese Architecture at Lusófona University and has an extensive history of lecturing at FAUP. She regularly writes scientific articles, prefaces and critical essays on ancient and contemporary architecture. Beyond research, she has a significant track record in editorial and curatorship.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Architecture
• Doutoramento
  Architecture
• Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)
  Architecture: Theory, Design, History
• Master
  Architecture
• Ensino secundário
  Artes
• Outros
  First Certificate in English

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2020, 2 imagens e 4 notas de rodapéª, MA (Faup students magazine)
• 2013, Entre vistas, NU 40. Entrevistas. Antologia Crítica 2001/2012
• 2007-09, Arquitectos Europeus em Trânsito: uma Heterotopia do Lugar, Arq/a Revista de Arquitectura e Arte
• 2005-03, “O Universo segundo Paulo Mendes da Rocha”, entrevista com Paulo Mendes da Rocha, NU#23 Brasil
• 2004-03, Edit: Postal à Sra. Tosoni, NU#18 Revistas
• 2004-03, 3 perguntas a Jacques Gubler, NU#18 Revistas
• 2004-02, Esta Revolução, NU#17 Revolução Digital
• 2004-01, Os olhos de Manuel Vicente, entrevista a Manuel Vicente, NU#16 Oriente
• 2003-12, Vers une architecture d’action, entrevista a Didier Fiúza Faustino, NU#15 Viagens
• 2003-06, Cartografia do Prazer, NU#12 Onde está Coimbra?
• 2003-02, Conversa no a.s*, entrevista com a.s*, NU#08 Tempo
• 2002-10, O desaparecimento da arquitectura, entrevista a Dominique Perrault, NU#04 Mecanismos

Journal article

• 2026, Siza, esperando o sucesso, Arquiteturas Contemporâneas
• 2026, Combatentes house in a bourgeois neighborhood and Bouça public housing: Common Points and Manifesto, Project: Research — O.porto School of Architecture Research Journal
• 2025, Neocolonial, uma Perspetiva Etnográfica, Anais do seminário internacional Arquitetura neocolonial: Balanço crítico e novas perspectivas
• 2019-12, Lisbon Story, From the Pombaline Architect to Siza, Eikonocity. History and Iconography of European Cities and Sites

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2019, PhD, Chiado e Estilo. A importância da noção de Estilo na construção do Chiado de Siza
• 2005, Degree, Cartografia da cidade sem nome

Book chapter

• 2026, Siza Baroque, retroactive architecture, Project Thinking on Design , Taylor&Francis, CIAUD
• 2024, Bolhão. O que foi, o que será, Mercado do Bolhão. Nuno Valentim,, NMB
• 2019, Siza e Estilo, Álvaro Siza in/disciplina, Serralves
• 2019, Siza and Style, Álvaro Siza in/discipline, Serralves, Koening Books

Edited book

• 2026, 1-8, Casa da Arquitetura
• 2024, esad—idea
• 2023, esad-idea, Research in Design and Art
• 2022, esad-idea, Research in Design and Art
• 2017, PT/EN, Circo de Ideias
• 2017, PT/EN, Circo de Ideias
• 2017, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2016, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2015, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2015, 1, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2014, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2014, EN, Circo de Ideias
• 2012, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2012, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2012, 5, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2011, EN, Circo de Ideias
• 2011, 4, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2011, 2, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2011, 1, PT, Circo de Ideias
• 2008, PT+EN, Circo de Ideias

Report

• 2025-01-31, Siza Baroque R&D FCT Final Report
• 2023-07, Esad-Idea R&D Unit FCT Funding Extention Report
• 2023-04, Siza Baroque R&D FCT Project Extension Report
• 2023-01, Porto Think Tanks Final Review Report
• 2022-10, Porto Think Tanks Mid-term Review Report
• 2022, Annual (2021) Progress Report on the FCT Funding of Esad-Idea R&D Unit
• 2021, Annual (2022) Progress Report on the FCT Funding of Esad-Idea R&D Unit
• 2021, Annual (2020) Progress Report on the FCT Funding of Esad-Idea R&D Unit

Working paper

• 2020-12, Research project 'Arquivo Laboratório: Investigação, projeto sustentável e monitorização'

Online resource

• 2019-06, Open House Porto 2019, Vida Interior, https://2019.openhouseporto.com/en/about/
• 2019-04-01, A Book chosen by Joana Couceiro: 'O essencial sobre a Arquitectura Barroca em Portugal', Paulo Varela Gomes , http://www.aefaup.com/livraria
• 2012, Casa do Conto (architectural photography by Fernando Guerra), http://ultimasreportagens.com/ultimas.php
• 2011, Casa do Conto under construction (architectural photography by Fernando Guerra), http://ultimasreportagens.com/ultimas.php
• 2011, Casa do Conto (special reports), http://ultimasreportagens.com/casadoconto/
• 2011, Casa da Cerca (architectural photography by Fernando Guerra), http://ultimasreportagens.com/ultimas.php

Website

• 2023-01, Siza Baroque, Siza Baroque Research Project Website contents, sizabaroque.com
• 2022-07, Porto Think Tanks , Porto Think Tanks research project contents, portothinktanks.esadidea.pt

Conference paper

• Ornamento e Estilo. O Fachadismo no Chiado, VII Jornadas Internacionais de História da Arquitetura / A cidade é como uma grande casa / A fachada como argumento e ornato urbano
• Neocolonial, Uma Perspectiva Etnográfica, Arquitetura Neocolonial, Balanço crítico e novas perspectivas, Semináro Internacional 2025
• Habitar o Porto Moderno. Movimentos quotidianos e intervenções pontuais pela salvaguarda do património arquitectónico do séc. XX, 1st Docomomo Portugal Congress: "Teaching, Reuse and Transformation of Modern Architecture and the City"
• 2025-12-03, Siza em Santiago, Mimésis e Negação
• 2023-12-07, Arquitectura Retroactiva e Barroco Ideológico. O exemplo de Siza, V Seminário Internacional AEAULP, "Proximidades Distantes"
• 2021-08-31, Houses with a name, Towards an invisible heritage, 16th International Docomomo Conference 2020+1
• 2014-11-20, Ironias da História. Intervir na Baixa Pombalina: do Edifício Havas à Reconstrução do Chiado, De Viollet-le-Duc à Carta de Veneza. Teoria e prática do restauro no espaço Ibero-Americano
• 2014-10-13, O Chiado de Siza: Simples Imitação, Maneira ou Estilo?, Arquitecturas do Mar, da Terra e do Ar

Conference abstract

• 2023, Critical Displaying (case studies), Undoing conflict in museums: materiality and meaning of museum architecture and exhibition design, ICAMT 49TH International Conference 2023
• 2023, Casas com nome, Embody what cannot be seen, VI CHAM Internacional Conference, "Heritage for a common Future/Futures for a Common Heritage"

Exhibition catalog

• 2019, Open House Porto 2019, Vida Interior, Casa da Arquitectura
• 2016, A Thousand Cottages, Circo de Ideias (Pedro Baía ed.)
• 2015, Espaço Privado, Espaço Interior, Circo de Ideias (Pedro Baía ed.)
• 2015, Entre Actos, Circo de Ideias (Pedro Baía ed.)
• 2015, A casa do senhor Malaparte, Circo de Ideias (Pedro Baía ed.)

Preface / Postscript

• 2023, Cumplicidades: nos percursos de Álvaro Siza e Eduardo de Souto de Moura
• 2022, Sem Medo. Cathalog of the monograph exhibition of Mariana Rio
• 2020, Palladio e o Moderno (FAD 2021 Awards winner, category 'Pensamiento y Crítica').
• 2012, Vítor Figueiredo: Fragmentos de um Discurso

Script

• 2013, 29A, short-film on a building designed by Vítor Figueiredo and Vasco Lobo / Research Project "Silent Rupture. Intersections between architecture and film. Portugal, 1960-1974"

Short fiction

• 2021, Doctor Farnsworth's House, Circo de Ideias
• 2018, A casa da doutora Farnsworth, Circo de Ideias
• 2015, A casa do senhor Malaparte, Circo de Ideias

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

• 2019-07, Open House Porto 2019
• 2017-10-14, Nuno Brandão Costa e a Casa de Coimbra (Parede 01 curated by Circo de Ideias: Joana Couceiro, Magda Seifert and Pedro Baía)
• 2016-11-26, Architectonica Percepta. Alberto Plácido + Paulo Providência (Curated by Paulo Providência and Circo de Ideias)
• 2016-03-05, A thousand cottages. Studio Pezo at Porto Academy ‘15 (Curated by Porto Academy and Circo de Ideias)
• 2015-09-26, A casa do senhor Malaparte (Mariana Rio Illustrations, curated by Mariana Rio and Circo de Ideias)
• 2015-03-07, Entre Actos (Rui Neto Drawings, curated by Rui Neto and Circo de Ideias)
• 2014-11-03, Bouça 1973-2014: O Estado da Arte (Curated by Manuel Montenegro and Circo de Ideias)
• 2010-06-12, Cecil Balmond In-site (Curated by Gonçalo Azevedo, Tony Erapuro and Circo de Ideias)

Other output

• 2019-06, Open House Porto 2019 / MAP, Itinerary of sixty five spaces (architectures) that had their doors open on the weekend of 29th and 30th June of 2019 including a program of tours with the authors of the project or with an invited specialist
• 2019, Casa do Conto / PUBLISHED WORK, Casa do Conto, in "Porto Brutalista" (Pedro Baía, Magda Seifert ed.), Porto, Circo de Ideias, 2019, p.264-271
• 2018, Circo de Ideias / PUBLISHED WORK, Text by Francesco Dal Co, "Nelle Case di Siza il Circo de Ideias", in Casabella 892
• 2017, Casa do Conto / PUBLISHED WORK, Casa do Conto, in "Guia de Arquitectura do Porto/Porto Architectural Guide 1942-2017", (Michel Toussaint, João Paulo Rapagão ed.), Lisboa, A+A Books, 2017, p.155
• 2017, Apartamento Boavista / PROJECT DESIGN
• 2013, Livraria Circo de Ideias / PROJECT DESIGN , Interior design
• 2013, 29A (short-film | 14'10'' | cor | 16:9) / FILM DIRECTION, Co-Production and Direction of a short-film on a building designed by Vítor Figueiredo / Research 'Silent Rupture. Intersections between architecture and film. Portugal, 1960-1974' / Grant number FCT/5876-PPCDTI/105484/PT
• 2012-11, Casa do Conto / PUBLISHED WORK, Figueira, Jorge; “Do Românico ao Minimalismo: Os Caminhos da Intervenção Patrimonial em Portugal“, Revista Património número um, Direcção-Geral do Património Cultura, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, p. 16-23
• 2012, Casa do Conto / PUBLISHED WORK, 'Pedra Líquida. Casa do Conto – História 1 + Casa do Conto – História 2', José Manuel das Neves (ed.), Lisboa, Uzina Books, 2012
• 2011-05, Casa do Conto / PUBLISHED WORK, in arqa 93 “Reabilitações Urbanas” (magazine cover)
• 2011, Casa do Conto 2 / PROJECT DESIGN , Reconstruction
• 2009-07, Casa da Cerca / PUBLISHED WORK, in arqa 71/72 “Críticos-arquitectos.pt”, 2009, p.144-149.
• 2009, Casa do Conto / PUBLISHED WORK, in 'Habitar a Cidade / Living City', (ed. José Manuel das Neves), Trueteam, 2009
• 2009, Apartamento Pedro Cem / PROJECT DESIGN
• 2008, Casa do Conto 1 / PROJECT DESIGN , Rehabilitation
• 2007, Casa da Cerca / PROJECT DESIGN