Repository: 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places

Carlos Machado e Moura is an architect (FAUP, 2006), postgraduate in Architectural Heritage (CEAPA-FAUP, 2013), PhD candidate (PDA-FAUP/FCT, 2015) and integrated researcher at the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP). He currently teaches history and theory of architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP) and the University of Minho (EAAD) and is deputy editor-in-chief of J–A Jornal Arquitectos (2022-24). Carlos is also a researcher of the project (EU)ROPA Rise of Portuguese Architecture (CES-UC), and the author of books like Building Views (Circo de Ideias, 2017) and Casas Quinhentistas de Castelo Branco (CMCB/Argumentum, 2008).

Dalia Milián Bernal is a doctoral researcher and lecturer in the School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment at Tampere University in Finland. Her background is in the field of architecture and her current research focuses on the temporary uses of vacant and abandoned urban spaces in the context of Latin America.

Esteban Restrepo Restrepo is an architect from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana of Medellin, Colombia. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature (with a co-direction in Architecture) from the Université Vincennes-Saint Denis/Paris VIII. Currently he is Maître de Conférences Associé at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette (FR) in the Departement of Arts and Representation Techniques, and researcher at the GERPHAU (Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherche en Philosophie, Architecture et Urbain). He has published two books: (anti)Chambres. Les architectures fragiles dans l’œuvre de Samuel Beckett (Les Presses du réel, France, 2015) and Cosmética. Por un espesor de la banalidad (Ediciones UPB, Colombia, 2008), and several articles about the relationships between architecture and literature.

Klaske Havik is Professor of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014) proposes a literary approach to architecture and urbanism. Writingplace. Investigations in Architecture and Literature appeared in 2016. Klaske Havik was editor of de Architect and OASE, and initiated the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature in 2017. Havik is leading the EU COST Action Writing Urban Places.

Lorin Niculae is associate professor at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania, since 1998. Vice dean since 2020. PhD of the same institution in 2013 with the “Arhipera_The Social participatory Architecture”, doctoral thesis. Currently, he is the president of the Arhipera Association, founded in 2011.