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Everyone and everywhere. Intergenerational practice as evidence of the bodies i...

The present essay proposes a critical analysis of intergenerational practices as evidence of bodily interaction in living spaces, addressing contemporary housing and urban vulnerabilities, resulting from recently finished research on the subject. Acknowledging the new challenges resulting from global demographic changes, urban transformations, or the evolution of practices regarding housing [Scott 2010, p. 458]...

The interplay between climate change and ageing: A systematic review of health ...

Climate change and rapid population ageing pose challenges for communities and public policies. This systematic review aims to gather data from studies that present health indicators establishing the connection between climate change and the physical and mental health of the older population (>= 65 years), who experience a heightened vulnerability to the impacts of climate change when compared to other age coho...

Everyone and everywhere. Intergenerational practice as evidence of the bodies i...

Vulnerabilidad, resiliencia y envejecimiento: Principios y acciones para espaci...

Lost Space Found: Reconsidering Functional Ambiguity as a Strategy for Housing ...

<jats:p>The current response to housing issues, undoubtedly a pressing problem of our time, implies an acceptance of the diversity of ways of living and their transformation over time, in addition to factors such as demographic movements, the ageing of the Western population, and climate change, which call for a thorough review of housing types and their implementation. A review of this calibre cannot be conduc...

Respigar a Habitação do Passado como Ato de Resistência - Gleaning Past Residen...

The "More than Housing" programme has fostered "an open, cross-disciplinary discussion about today's housing problem" while celebrating the 50th anniversary of Democracy in Portugal. Professors and researchers were invited to contribute with 7 visions oriented towards the future. This text is about the importance of learning from the past. www.maisdoquecasas.arq.up.pt

[preprint] Marques da Silva e Souto Moura: intervenções no Património no século...

Architecture is an art which naturally tends towards action. It is in its genes, it is co-natural, something that was born with it. Thereby, perceived as an inborn tendency, it is at best excessive to condemn it for that. To act before what exists so that it becomes another reality. That is what is asked of it - and very often - it is exactly what is required - this constituting its way of being, like a surviva...

Kenneth Frampton: Elogio - Kenneth Frampton: Commendation

Honoris Causa Doctorate by the University of Porto of Professor Kenneth Frampton

Affordable Futures Past: Rethinking Contemporary Housing Production in Portugal...

This article focuses on a specific term associated with the scientific, theoretical, and academic discourse on housing archi‐ tecture in Portugal. Over the last 100 years, the term "affordable" has frequently been used in the vocabulary of urban housing in Portugal, being linked to other words commonly used in housing construction, such as económica (economi‐ cal), barata (cheap/inexpensive/low‐cost), pobre (po...

"Modelo de Vida Independente": a partir de modos alternativos de pensar a habit...

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