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Luísa Pimenta Sol. PhD Architect and researcher obtained her BA in architecture, as well as a Diploma degree in Scenography, from the Faculty of Architecture – University of Lisbon, where she also conducted her PhD in Architecture “The Image of the City and its Represented-Space in 80’s Music Videos: North-American Interferences in Contemporary Architecture Culture” also in FCSH – Nova University of Lisbon. She has written several essays for academic and non-academic publications on issues related to image, identity, visual narratives, territory, spaces of representation, fiction, gender and social inequalities in the architectural context . Since 2018 she is also involved in architecture editing and publishing. Her post-doctoral research is also conducted at the University of Lisbon (CIAUD) where she is currently the coordinator of the ongoing project “Architectures of the Screen: Television and Emerging Urbanity(ies) in Portugal – From Postmodernity to Contemporaneity”.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Luísa Pimenta Sol
Date of birth
1981/03/02
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Sol, Luísa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E310-B3F2-88EE
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0060-7104

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)
Education
Degree Classification
2009 - 2018
Concluded
 Architecture (Doutoramento)
Major in History and Theory of Architecture
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
"The Image of the City and its Represented-Space in music videos from the 80's: North American Interference in Western Architectural Culture." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with Praise and Distinction
2008/09/20 - 2009/06/23
Concluded
 Specialization Degree in Scenography (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Major in Scenography
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitetura, Portugal
 14
1999/09/18 - 2006/07/20
Concluded
 Architecture (Licenciatura)
Major in Architecture
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitetura, Portugal
 13
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010/02/03 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/10/03 - Current Assistant Researcher at Individual Scientific Employment Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
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Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/10/03 - 2028/10/03 Architectures of the Screen: Television and Emerging Urbanity (ies) in Portugal - From Postmodernity to Contemporaneity
2020.01180.CEECIND
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Investigação em Arquitectura Urbanismo e Design
UID/EAT/04008/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2020/01/05 - Current Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City.
COST Action CA18126
Member and Researcher
COST Action - European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
Ongoing
2023/03/24 - 2023/03/31 Tirana and Kamza – the planned, the unplanned, and everything in between
COST Action CA18126
Invited Scientist Fellow
COST Action - Writing Urban Places, Albania
Ongoing
2021/05/05 - 2022/04/20 Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion
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Architecture Research Project Author in Mentorship Project
Forecast Platform, Germany
 Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Concluded
2019/09/23 - 2019/10/31 Fiction Practice - Young Curators LAB : "Assembly for the Extra-real"
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Other
Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal

PortoDesign Biennial 2019, Portugal
Governo da República Portuguesa
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Sol, Luísa. "SCREEN CARE: GREAT DOMESTIC REPRESENTATIONS AND VULNERABLE VISIBILITIES IN PANDEMIC LANDSCAPES". In I, Like Many Things., edited by Smiljkovic, D.; Rusk, J.; Tsai, R.; Nielsen, G. K. V., 15-23. New Haven, United States: Yale School of Architecture, 2023.
    Published
  2. Sol, Luísa. "Domestic Proscenium: Television in the American Postwar Suburban House". In 2D/3D Producing Illusion, edited by Capela, José; Cabeleira, João, 114-123. Braga, Portugal: Lab2PT, Universidade do Minho, 2023.
    Published
  3. Sol, Luísa. "Layer From Background - Reflexions on Intermittencies and Temporary Spaces". In Layer From Background, edited by Gediz, Leyla, 29-44. Lisbon, Portugal: Independent Art Catalogue, 2022.
    Published
  4. Sol, Luísa. "On the Building at Martim Moniz and its "Layers" - An Interview with Bartolomeu da Costa Cabral". In Layer From Background, edited by Gediz, Leyla, 77-88. Lisbon, Portugal: Independent Art Catalogue, 2022.
    Published
  5. Sol, Luísa. "Screen Care. Visbilidad, invisibilidad y metáforas del hogar en el contexto de la pandemia.". In Cuidados, edited by Sanchez Llorens, Mara; Feliz, Salvora; Amann y Alcocer, Atxu; MARTELLA, Flavio, 57-57. Madrid, Spain: Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, ETSAM, 2021.
    Published
  6. Sol, L.. "Legal alien, exile and intermittent homes in “Englishman in New York” (Sting, 1987)". In Drawing (…) City (…) Body, Dwelling on Earth, edited by Janeiro, Pedro António, 131-135. Londres, United Kingdom: CRC Press, 2019.
    10.1201/9780429398773-16
  7. Sol, Luísa. "The Home and The World: Domestic dynamics of the Postwar American Suburban House". In La Casa: Espacios Domesticos, Modos de Habitar, edited by ABADA editores. Madrid, Spain: ABADA editores, 2019.
    Published
  8. Sol, Luísa. "Cidade Moderna, Cidade Pos-Moderna e Espaco-Representado em 'Anarchitekton' de Jordi Colomer". In Arquiteturas Imaginadas: Representação Gráfica Arquitectónica e 'Outras Imagens' -- Desenho (...) Cidade (...) Moderna, edited by Caleidoscópio. Lisboa, Portugal, 2016.
    Published
  9. Sol, Luísa. "Cidade, Ruína e Abjecto: O Desenho da Paisagem Pós-industrial através de "Under Pressure" (Queen&DavidBowie, 1981)". In Arquiteturas Imaginadas: representação Gráfica Arquitectónica e 'Outras Imagens' -- Desenho (...) Cidade (...) Eu. Lisboa, Portugal, 2016.
    Published
  10. Sol, Luísa. "Desenho, Imaginário, Audiovisual e Cidade: Nova Iorque na Era da sua Reprodutibilidade Técnica". In Arquitectura Imaginadas: Representacao Grafica Arquitectonica e ‘Outras Imagens‘ — Desenho(...)Cidade. Lisboa, Portugal, 2016.
    Published
  11. Sol, Luísa. "Image and City Scale: Architectural Space vs Fiction in Space in Jordi Colomer's 'Anarchitekton' (2002-2004)"". In New Questions on Contemporary Arts. Istambul, Turkey: Dakam Publishing, 2012.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Sol, Luísa. "Mental spaces / Real Spaces - A Digital Archive On researching and reimagining immaterial forms of architecture". Paper presented in School of Architecture(s) EAAE2023, Turin, 2023.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Sol, Luísa. A Casa e o Mundo. Lisboa, Portugal: LATA edições. 2018.
    Published • Editor
Exhibition catalog
  1. Sol, Luísa. MODELOS de IDENTIFICAÇÃO: O Território (também) é o seu Mapa. Plataforma 285. https://plataforma285.com/afinidades/, 2024.
Journal article
  1. Sol, Luísa. "On American Suburbia & Pruitt-Igoe: Television and the Politics of Care in American Postwar City.". Astrágalo. Cultura de la Arquitectura y la Ciudad 1 33-34 (2023): 109-129. https://doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2023.i33-34.07.
    Open access • Published • 10.12795/astragalo.2023.i33-34.07
  2. Sol, Luísa. "(Re)emerging from Ruins: Screening the American Postindustrial Urban Landscape of the 80's". The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5 (2018): 101-117. http://theapollonian.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/The-Apollonian-The-City-Plays-Itself-Vol.-5-2018.pdf.
    Published
  3. Sol, Hermínia; Sol, Luísa. "Viva Las Vegas! City, Stage and City-Stage in Francis Ford Copolla's 'One From the Heart'". Anglo-Saxónica 7 (2014): 309-322. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/11842.
  4. Sol, Luísa. "Urban Culture in Blade Runner’s Dystopian City". Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 3 2 (2014): 217-223. http://universitypublications.net/hssr/0302/html/R3ME201.xml.
    Open access • Published
Magazine article
  1. Sol, Luísa. "1980's: Sobre Cidade, Imagem (ens), Videoclips e Outros Fantasmas", Cavalo Velho, 2024, https://www.vseditor.net/product-page/cavalo-velho-1.
Online resource
  1. Sol, Luísa. On American Suburbia in 1980s Music Videos. 2025. http://www.fortherecord.video/video-essays/on-american-suburbia-in-1980s-music-videos/.
  2. Sol, Luísa. A(s) Casa(s). 2024. https://sppsicanalise.pt/casa-ii/.
  3. Sol, Luísa. Espaços Mentais / Espaços Reais : Arquivo Digital. 2023. https://efabula.pt/projects/arquivodigital/.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Sol, Luísa. "A Casa e o Mundo _ Editorial". Preface to A Casa e o Mundo, edited by Sol, Luísa, Ascensão, Ana Teresa. Lisboa, Portugal: LATA edições. 2018.
    Published

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2022. "Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion _ Instalation URL: https://forecast-platform.com/mentee/luisa-sol/". In From Stories to Spaces at the Forecast Festival ed.06.
  2. Paola Rodrigues Alves; Desirée Desmarattes; Clara Meliande; Carlos Azaredo Mesquita; Luísa Pimenta Sol; Mariana Pestana; Marina Otero Verzier; Malique Mahmoud; Ibye Camp. 2019. "Fiction Practice - Young Curators LAB "Assembly for the Extra Real"". In Fiction Practice - Prototyping The Otherworldly.

Other

Research technique
  1. Museums and Stereotypes - International Training School. Co-Researcher. Sol, Luísa.
    Co-Researcher
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/04/11 "On Domesticity: Reflections on Broadcasted Home(s) and Speculations for Housing Futures" masterclass in PhD Architecture/Design course in Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa "On Domesticity: Reflections on Broadcasted Home(s) and Speculations for Housing Futures"
Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/11/13 On American Suburbia: Politics of Space in 1980’s Music Videos The Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture (BAMC2024) SCOPUS indexed
IAFOR The International Academic Forum (Barcelona, Spain)
2023/08/31 "Mental Spaces /Real Spaces: A Digital Archive On researching and reimagining immaterial forms of architecture" in EAAE 2023 Turin EAAE 2023 School fo Architecture(s)
European Association for Architectural Education & Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy)
2022/05/02 7 questions 7 Questions Curatorial _ The City of Care
ETH Zurich, Departement Architecture (Switzerland)
2022/03/03 Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion
Yale School of Architecture (New Haven, United States)
2022/02/02 Architectures of Inclusion & Exclusion _ Oral Presentation followed by a conversation with the Architect Tatiana Bilbao. Architectures of Inclusion and Exclusion
Goethe-Institut New York (New York, United States)
2021/11/18 Conversation with Patrícia Azevedo Silva, Francisco Frazão & Luísa Sol (PT) + Last night technology saved live art with Ana Veiga Riscado, Ant Hampton & João Estevens (EN) Performing Arts and Digital Culture
https://rabbithole.pt (lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/24 On American Suburbia in 1980’s Music Videos For the Record: Politics of Design in Music Videos // Workshop
Porto Design Biennale / Het Niew Institutt (porto, Portugal)
2021/05/26 Domestic Proscenium: Television in the American Postwar Suburban House 2D:3D Producing Illusion
mala voadora / EAAD - Universidade do Minho / Lab2PT (Porto, Portugal)
2021/04/07 City in Music Videos from the 80's Methods and Assignments to Read, Write and Activate Urban Places - webinar
COST Action CA18126 – Writing Urban Places (Portugal)
2021/02/19 Representations and Landscapes of Lisboa94 and Expo98: Re-inventing 90’s Lisbon through its screened image. Grand Projects: Urban Legacies of the Late 20th Century
Dinâmia - CET, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04/11 'The City Upon a Hill': Screening New York's Skyscrappers through Cinema, Video and music videos. The Street and the City III -- Encounters
University of Lisbon Faculty of Letters (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/01/24 The Home and the World: Domestic Dynamics of the Postwar American Suburban House La Casa, Espacios Domesticos Modos de Habitar
Universidade de Granada ETSA (Granada, Spain)
2017/11/24 City and Television: The Ilusion of the Unlived The Society of Spectacle: 50 years later
CECC _ Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/05/17 Entre o Modernismo e o Pós-Modernismo: Diálogos desenhados entre o Cinema Expressionista e o 'videoclip' da década de Oitenta" Dibujo (...) Ciudad (...) Reminiscencia
Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2012/05/24 City, Screen and Hyper-reality: Television as a Habitat and Identity Platform Architecture, Education and Society
Universitat Politécnica da Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/03/04 - 2023/03/04 Curator, Artistic Direction and Moderation of the Public Presentation "Mental spaces / Real spaces - The digital archive about the Alto dos Barronhos Housing and the ways of inhabiting it." at Teatro do Bairro Alto. https://teatrodobairroalto.pt/espetaculo/espacos-mentais-espacos-reais-o-arquivo-digital-sobre-o-bairro-do-alto-dos-barronhos-e-os-modos-de-o-habitar-carlos-alvarenga-esmael-graca-ivone-rodrigueslucinda-correia-luisa-sol-paula-car/?fbclid=IwAR0mG1b4aqKp4tEoLw-pUETc946i-fZvI9BXnhnsWOnK-hs6iBVpa7hXVK8 (2023/03/04 - 2023/03/04)
Round table (President of the Organising Committee)
 efabula, Portugal

TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto, Portugal
2022/06/04 - 2022/06/25 Organisation and Content of 4 debates on Architecture and Mental Health "Mental Spaces / Real Spaces" at the Bairro do Alto dos Barronhos Social Housing, within the 910 Fogos project financed by the Bairros Saudáveis Programme. (2022/06/04 - 2022/06/25)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 efabula, Portugal
2018/03/06 - 2018/03/08 Authorship and orientation of the Workshop "Cidade Filmada: Mapear Topias- em-Movimento", in the scope of the "Desenho (...) Cidade (...) Corpo, Habitando a Terra" International Seminar in Centro Universitario Maria Antonia - Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil (2018/03/06 - 2018/03/08)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Brazil

Centro Universitário Maria Antônia, Brazil
2017/09/23 - 2017/09/23 Organization of "A Casa e o Mundo" a talk between the architect Manuel Aires Mateus, the psychoanalyst Vasco Santos and the artistic project Musa paradisiaca about the text "The World and the Home" from Homi K. Bhabha (1992) in Lisbon's Openhouse 2017 together with Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa. (2017/09/23 - 2017/09/23)
Round table (President of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/03/05 - 2025/05/07 Participation in the 10-week Seminar "Human Beings and Society in the Information Hurricane: Threats of the Age of Hyperconnectivity" by the New University in Exile Consortium, New School for Social Research.
Seminar
 Human Beings and Society in the Information Hurricane: Threats of the Age of Hyperconnectivity
The New University in Exile Consortium, United States
2025/03/26 - 2025/04/16 "Making Ourselves Up - Memoir and the Art of Personal Narrative" _ Writing Course with Poet, essayist and non-fiction writer, Amy Key.
Workshop
 "Making Ourselves Up - Memoir and the Art of Personal Narrative"
Salted Books, Portugal
2025/03/31 - 2025/03/31 Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity” _ by IFILNOVA (Cine-Lab) / FCSH/UNL
Meeting
 FILM AND DEATH – Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death
IFILNOVA (Cine-Lab) / FCSH / UNL, Portugal
2024/09/25 - 2024/12/04 Participant in the seminar "Environmental Justice: Theory, Practice, and Change" presented by the New University in Exile Consortium, New School for Social Research
Seminar
 Environmental Justice: Theory, Practice, and Change
The New University in Exile Consortium, United States
2024/03/07 - 2024/03/09 Conference organized by Docomomo ISC/ID and Docomomo Portugal on “Modernist women interior designers and artists: to deepen the reading of the different expressions of female creativity”.
Conference
 “Modernist women interior designers and artists: to deepen the reading of the different expressions of female creativity”
Docomomo International, Netherlands
2024/01/22 - 2024/01/23 "On Display: The Aesthetics and Politics of Representation" -- The second edition of Problematising Reality – Encounters between Art and Philosophy is a partnership between CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, IFILNOVA (Cine-Lab) / FCSH/ UNL and Maumaus / Lumiar Cité.
Seminar
 Problematising Reality -- On Display: The Aesthetics and Politics of Representation
CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Portugal

IFILNOVA (Cine-Lab) / FCSH / UNL, Portugal

Maumaus / Lumiar Cité, Portugal
2023/10/05 - 2023/12/14 Participation in the Seminar "Designing Feminist Research" by the New University in Exile Consortium, New School for Social Research.
Seminar
 Designing Feminist Research
The New School for Social Research, United States
2023/03/21 - 2023/03/21 Guest Speaker in the Book launch "I, Like Many Things" (ed. Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen and Diana Smiljkovic -- Yale School of Architecture) at Cultures of Assembly, Associated with the Master in Architecture Programme University of Luxembourg.
Round table
 Cultures of Assembly Book launch I, Like Many Things Tuesday March 21st, 18:30h
Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2022/09/20 - 2022/11/10 Fellow at "Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible" -- a collaborative experience led by Margaret Atwood.
Workshop
 "Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible"
Practical Utopias I DISCO, Canada
2019/10/16 - 2019/10/21 The Museums and Stereotypes International Training School, is a platform where practitioners and researchers aim, through their museum work, to support equity and justice in civil society.
Workshop
 Museums and Stereotypes - International Training School
ABCittá, Italy

4iS - Plataforma para a Inovação Social, Portugal
2015/11/06 - 2015/11/06 Debate "Living in America: A Arquitectura, a Imagem e Ecrã Habitáveis na Cultura Norte-Americana (Intra e Extra-Fronteiras)". Com Pedro António Janeiro e Jorge Martins Rosa.
Round table
 Living in America: A Arquitectura, a Imagem e Ecrã Habitáveis na Cultura Norte-Americana (Intra e Extra-Fronteiras)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2015/10/29 - 2015/10/30 Participation in the workshop "Urban Heritage and Urban Images: Imageneering Urban Heritage" in the scope of the Project "Stadtforschung meets Heritage" in George Simmel Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Workshop
 Urban Heritage and Urban Images: Imagineering Urban Heritage
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2015/06/18 - 2015/06/19 Participation in the Summer School "Paisagens Socioculturais Contemporâneas", organized by the Sociology Phd comittee in Cities and Urban Cultures and by the Cities, Cultures and Architectures' core from the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) da Universidade de Coimbra
Meeting
 Paisagens Socioculturais Contemporâneas
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/04/29 - 2023/04/30 Invited specialist to evaluate the selected projects at Take Over Fest _ Blueprints for Agency. This event was a partnerships between The Lisbon Triennale and Forecast Berlin to take over the Sinel de Cordes Palace for one weekend, to discover and promote audacious initiatives developing sustainable strategies for better coexistence. Through an open call, Forecast has selected eight initiatives in the field of arts, design and architecture. https://www.trienaldelisboa.com/programa/eventos/forecast
Specialist
 Trienal de Arquitetura de Lisboa, Portugal

Forecast Platform, Germany 		European Commission Creative Europe
2022/06/20 - 2022/11/09 Invited Specialist Member for the Assessment Committee of the Sustained Support Programme (biennial and quadrennial) - Visual Arts Area, from the Directorate-General for the Arts of the Ministry of Culture of the Portuguese Republic.
Evaluator
 Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
Distinctions

Other distinction

2021 Selected Mentee in the 6th Edition of International Mentorship Program Forecast, Mentored by Tatiana Bilbao
Forecast Platform, Germany
2021 "A Casa e o Mundo" Selected Publication for the Reading Room Instalation for New Generations Festival, Royal Academy of Spain, Rome
New Generations, Spain