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Beatriz Serrazina is a Junior Researcher at Dinâmia’CET-Iscte. She is a Postdoctoral fellow on the ERC project ArchLabour, led by Ana Vaz Milheiro, and the co-principal investigator (Co-PI) of the FCT-funded project LabourMap-Macao (PEX). Beatriz holds a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from Patrimónios, CES/III-University of Coimbra (2024), focusing on the role of corporate spatialities and materialities in shaping colonialism and the cross-fertilisation of building knowledge in Africa. Her research interests include architectural history, imperial corporations, transnational connections, the circulation of knowledge, heritage, and socio-spatial control during late colonialism.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Beatriz Serrazina

Citation names

  • Serrazina, Beatriz

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6B1D-C590-F70A
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4679-606X

Email addresses

  • beatriz.serrazina@gmail.com (Professional)
  • beatriz_serrazina@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • https://ai-research.pt/ (Scholar)
  • https://archlabour.iscte-iul.pt/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017 - 2024/01/05
Concluded
 Patrimónios de Influência Portuguesa (Doutoramento)
Major in Arquitectura e Urbanismo
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
"A construção de um império: território, conexões e arquitectura na Companhia de Diamantes de Angola" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Com distinção e louvor
2010/09 - 2016/03
Concluded
 Arquitetura (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Arquitectura
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
"Utopia Moderna em África. O Bairro Prenda na Luanda do Futuro" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 20
2015 - 2016
Concluded
 Curso de Especialização em Territórios Colaborativos: Processos, Projeto, Intervenção e Empreendedorismo (Diploma de especialização)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Arquitectos Sem Fronteiras Portugal, Portugal
2014 - 2014
Concluded
 Architectural Photography (Postgraduate Certificate)
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/10/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2022/11 - 2024/10 Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/07/30 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018 - 2019 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/09 - 2022/09 A construção de um império: território, conexões e arquitectura na Companhia de Diamantes de Angola
SFRH/BD/122658/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/10 - 2028/12 ArchLabour – Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule
101096606
Post-doc Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
 European Research Council
Ongoing
2025/02/15 - 2026/08/15 LabourMap-Macao – Mass labour impact on Public Works in Macau under Portuguese administration (1849-1999) (2023.14980.PEX)
2023.14980.PEX
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2024/09/30 Archwar – Dominance and mass-violence through Housing and Architecture during colonial wars. The Portuguese case (Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique): colonial documentation and post-independence critical assessment
PTDC/ART-DAQ/0592/2020
PhD Student Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 WomArchStruggle – Women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa: gender and struggle for professional recognition (1953-1985)
10.54499/2022.01720.PTDC
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016 - 2020 Coast to Coast – Desenvolvimento infraestrutural tardio na antiga África continental portuguesa (Angola e Moçambique)
PTDC/ATP-AQI/0742/2014
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Serrazina, Beatriz. "On building empires: colonial companies, spatial planning and the circulation of knowledge". In Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires, edited by Alice Santiago Faria; Araujo, Renata Malcher de; Conceição, Margarida Tavares da, 191-214. United States: Routledge, 2025.
    10.4324/9781003405726-10
  2. Serrazina, Beatriz. "Spatializations of Development: Mining Enterprises and Company Towns in Africa". In Colonialism and Development. Yearbook for the History of Global Development, edited by Joseph Hodge; Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo; Sarah Stockwell. De Gruyter, 2025.
    Under revision
  3. Serrazina, Beatriz. "Modern urbanism, mining and forced labour in late colonial Angola". In Oxford Handbook of the Comparative Archaeology of Slavery, edited by Jane Webster; Mark Leone. Oxford Handbooks, 2025.
    Under revision
  4. Serrazina, Beatriz. "Colonial Enterprises and Urban Design: Transnational Knowledge, Local Agency, and the Diamond Company of Angola (1917–1975)". In Architectures of Colonialism, edited by Vera Egbers; Christa Kamleithner; Özge Sezer; Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir, 129-146. Basle, Switzerland: De Gruyter, 2024.
    Published • 10.1515/9783035626704-008
  5. Serrazina, B.. "Building the fringes of Empire: mining companies, transnational experts, race and space in colonial Africa". In Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture, edited by Felipe Hernandez; Itohan Osayimwese. Routledge, 2024.
    In press
  6. Serrazina, B.. "Industrial colonial heritage: shared and transnational?". In Other landscapes of Cultural Heritage(s): history and politics, edited by Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo; Walter Rossa; Nuno Lopes. Coimbra, Portugal: Coimbra University Press, 2023.
    Published
  7. Pacheco, Monica; Milheiro, A. V.; Serrazina, B.; Vita, F.; Rodrigues, Inês Lima; Ribeiro, J.; Silva, Leonor Matos. "Decentralising the core: notes on middle class mass housing in Portugal". In European Middle-Class Mass Housing: Past and Present of the Modern Community, 435-441. Iscte-IUL, 2023.
    Published
  8. Milheiro, A. V.; Serrazina, B.. "Diamang's urban project: Between the Peace of Versailles and the Colonial Act". In Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa, 107-121. Routledge, 2019.
    Published • 10.4324/9781351271844-8
  9. Serrazina, Beatriz. "Ventos do Norte de África. A relação entre Simões de Carvalho, Candilis, Woods e o Team X". In Optimistic Suburbia 3? The Researchers’ Perspective: Luanda, Lisboa, Macau, edited by Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Fiúza, Filipa; Almeida, Rogério Paulo Vieira de, 129-136. Lisboa, Portugal: AMDJAC, 2018.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Serrazina, Beatriz. ""Model" Workers' villages? Company rule and adobe-brick houses in late colonial Africa". Paper presented in 8th International Congress on Construction History, Zurique, 2024.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Serrazina, Beatriz; Milheiro, Ana Vaz. "ArchLabour – Architecture, Colonialism and Labour". Paper presented in SAH 77th Annual International Conference, 2024.
  2. Serrazina, B.. "Diamang's urban legacies in Lunda: transnational connections, cultures". Paper presented in FCT Ciência, 2018.
Edited book
  1. Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Serrazina, Beatriz; Fiúza, Filipa; Silva, Leonor Matos, ed. Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes I - Architectures, Cities, Infrastructures in Africa. Coast to Coast Researchers' book. 2023.
    Published
  2. Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Rodrigues, Inês Lima; Serrazina, Beatriz; Silva, Leonor Matos; Milheiro, A. V., ed. Optimistic Suburbia 4 - Full papers' Booklet. Middle-Class Mass Housing Complexes. Portp, Portugal: Jack Back Pack. 2023.
    Published • Editor
  3. Silva, Leonor Matos; Serrazina, B.; Milheiro, A. V.; Rodrigues, Inês Lima, ed. Optimistic Suburbia 2 - Middle-class mass housing complexes. --, Portugal: Middle-class mass housing complexes International Conference. 2021.
    Published • Editor
Exhibition catalog
  1. Serrazina, Beatriz. O Anfiteatro da Faculdade de Direito de Coimbra: uma magistral aula de arquitetura. Fundação Instituto Arquitecto José Marques da Silva, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Serrazina, Beatriz. "A habitação para trabalhadores na concessão da Diamang". Revista de História das Ideias 43 (2025): 239-268. https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-8925_43_9.
    Published • 10.14195/2183-8925_43_9
  2. Serrazina, Beatriz. "Urban Policies, Architectural Dissonances, and Not So ‘Modern’ Buildings in Late Colonial Luanda". e-Journal of Portuguese History (2024): 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1163/16456432-bja10007.
    Published • 10.1163/16456432-bja10007
  3. Serrazina, B.. "Building resilience: workers' villages in late colonial Angola". IASTE Working Paper Series: Housing and Tradition 323 (2022): 1-22. https://iaste.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Vol-323.pdf.
    Published
  4. Serrazina, B.. "Crossed cultures in Lunda, Angola: Diamang's urban project and its legacies". Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 31 2 (2020): 23-34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26953014.
    Published
  5. Serrazina, Beatriz. "Hard legacies: as companhias coloniais e a modernidade urbana em África". Cabo dos Trabalhos 20 (2020): https://cabodostrabalhos.ces.uc.pt/n20/documentos/2_Beatriz_Serrazina.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Website
  1. Silva, Leonor Matos; Rodrigues, Inês Lima; Serrazina, Beatriz. Optimistic Suburbia 2. 2020. https://optimisticsuburbia9.wixsite.com/osbb2.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/10/20 "Creolizar” para resistir: A escola de Chorão Ramalho em Macau Docomomo PT: Ensino, Reuso e Transformação da Arquitetura e da Cidade Modernas
Docomomo Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)
2025/05/25 Mining Labor, Housing and Building Sites in Late Colonialism across Central Africa IASTE 2025: Cosmopolitanism and Tradition
International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (Alexandria, Egypt)
2025/04/30 Building the Benguela Railway: laborers and construction skills SAH 2025 International Conference
Society of Architectural Historians (Atlanta, United States)
2025/02/13 A 'Não-Simultaneidade' nas Construções Coloniais: O Caso da Barragem das Mabubas, Angola 3ª Conferência de Engenharia e Arquitectura da Faculdade de Engenharia da UAN
Universidade Agostinho Neto (Luanda, Angola)
2024/12/10 Architecture for children: colonial architects, climate design and enduring nursery buildings (1957-1964) Docomomo International Conference
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies (FADEU), Chile (Santiago, Chile)
2024/11/21 The neighbourhood. A research site for questioning the multiple agendas of colonial housing Housing production in times of conflict (Lieux et Enjeux #1 2024/25)
ENSAPVS (Paris, France)
2024/11/19 Building Empire: Everyday Architecture of a Mining Concession in Colonial Angola Building Empire: Everyday Architecture of a Mining Concession in Colonial Angola
Université de Genève (Genebra, Switzerland)
2024/10/30 Building Corporative Empires: A Trans-imperial Genealogy of Recreational and Social Centres across Portugal, Angola and Belgian Congo The Architecture of Need: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Service in the Twentieth Century
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/10/25 Workers’ neighborhoods, welfare and architecture in late colonial Angola Swiss Researching Africa Days
Swiss Society for African Studies (Berna, Switzerland)
2024/09/23 Imperial companies and railways between Angola and Belgian Congo, 1910-1930 T2M 22nd Annual Conference: Mobilites and Infrastructures | Transitions and Transformations
Lancaster University (Leipzig, Germany)
2024/06/25 "Model" workers’ villages? Company rule and adobe-brick houses in late colonial Africa 8th International Congress on Construction History (ICCH)
ETH Zurich (Zurique, Switzerland)
2024/06/18 Colonial labour housing: a ‘propaganda’ tool? EAHN 2024 Conference Athens
European Architectural History Network (Atenas, Greece)
2024/04/17 Building from colonial non-simultaneities: Mabubas Dam, Angola SAH 77th Annual International Conference
Society of Architectural Historians (Albuquerque, United States)
2023 De-Stabilizing War Agendas: Company Rule and Spatial Disruption in Late Colonial Angola II Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes Congress
Ana Vaz Milheiro; Dinâmia'CET-Iscte (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023 “Spotless Little Americas”? Company rule and inter-imperial urban planning in colonial Africa, 1920-1950s Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory
Janina Gosseye; Tom Avermaete; Matthew Heins (Delft)
2021 Beyond national myopia: urban planning and cross-border connections between colonial pockets of utile Africa Doctoral workshop In-Between Spaces, Actors and Infrastructures
César Jacquier; University of Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
2021 Expanding the Copperbelt: Crossborder connections with Angola Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa
Miles Larmer; Comparing the Copperbelt (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2019/12/11 (Con)viver na torre de comando industrial: os centros urbanos da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola Paisagens de Influência Portuguesa: Equipamentos e Espaço Público
Centro de Estudos Sociais, UC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10/03 On heritage Histories of development: global, national, colonial
Patrimónios (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05/09 Private companies in Africa, knowledge across the Globe Empire and Globalisation(s). Circulations, exchanges and trans-imperial cooperation in Africa, 19th-20th century
Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2019/01 A border's victim: spatial control in Lunda I Colonial and postcolonial Landscapes Congress: Architecture, cities, infrastructures
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/12 Um Estado dentro do Estado: A Companhia de Diamantes de Angola Insularidades e enclaves em situações coloniais e pós-coloniais: trânsitos, conflitos e construções identitárias (séculos XV-XXI)
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05/25 Reflexões contemporâneos do empreendimento da Diamang na infraestruturação do território angolano: conexões transnacionais, culturas e práticas de colonização (1917-2017) Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Arquitectura
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/09 - 2025/09 Asian (post)colonial works, labour and gender through the camera lens, Co-chair da sessão com Leonor Matos Silva na conferência SAH Virtual 2025. (2025/09 - 2025/09)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Society of Architectural Historians, United States
2024/11/21 - 2024/11/29 Architecture + Infrastructures. Questioning the contemporary landscapes, 2010-2024 (2024/11/21 - 2024/11/29)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Val de Seine, France
2024/09 - 2024/09 Research on women architects in Portuguese (post-)colonial Africa, Co-chair da sessão com Leonor Matos Silva na conferência SAH Virtual 2024. (2024/09 - 2024/09)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Society of Architectural Historians, United States
2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09 Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes: Roundtable series I. Infrastructures, Labour, War (2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2024/01/13 - 2024/01/13 Gender struggles in architecture, colonialism and housing (2024/01/13 - 2024/01/13)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2023 - 2023 II Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes Congress: Architecture, Colonialism and War (2023 - 2023)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2021/06/16 - 2021/06/19 Optimistic Suburbia II - Middle-Class Large Housing Complexes International Conference (2016/06/16 - 2026/06/19)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019 I Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes Congress: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures (2019/01 - 2019/01)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Colonizing Africa: Reports on Colonial Public Works in Angola and Mozambique (2019 - 2019)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Moranças: Habitats tradicionais da Guiné Bissau (2018 - 2020)
Exhibition (Other)
 Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/10/01 - 2024/10/31 HipoTesis Serie Numerada (2340-5147) Universidad de Alcalá

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024 Jury of the competition for a Post-Doctoral Grant (BIPD_24_3) in Architecture, project ArchLabour (ERC Grant 101096606, Ana Vaz Milheiro) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Jury of the competition for a Post-Doctoral Grant (BIPD_24_2) in Architecture, project ArchLabour (ERC Grant 101096606, Ana Vaz Milheiro) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal