Architecture + Infrastructures Working Paper Series 1: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities and Labour
Editors: Beatriz Serrazina and Francesca Vita
Series Coordinator: Ana Vaz Milheiro
Design: vivóeusébio
Edition: 1st Edition
Editor: Dinâmia’CET-Iscte, 2026
Format: Printed and Digital
Editor’s note
Beatriz Serrazina, Francesca Vita
Dismantling the Banana Enclave: Heritage preservation, labour, and exhausted landscapes in Costa Rica’s South Pacific
Lucia Riba-Hernández
Intersections between Colonial “Peanut Railways” and Urban Configurations
in Colonial West Africa
Liora Bigon and Oyewale Oyeleye
The Garden and Its Enemies: Agrarian Knowledge and Colonial Violence Through Two Photographic Archives
of Italian Libya
Maria Luisa Palumbo
Building São Januário Hospital in Macau: Portuguese technical perspectives on Chinese labour
Ana Vaz Milheiro
Formalising the Informal?
À chacun sa maison (1953), a DIY Building Manual from Late Colonial Congo
Igor Bloch
Back Door’ Masters and the Familial-Entrepreneurial Transmission of Construction Knowledge in the Building of Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul, in Late Ottoman Empire
Arzu Kusaslan
Reclaiming Construction: Labour, Pedagogy, and Postcolonial Critique in Architectural Education
Lara Melotti Tonsig and João Marcos de Almeida Lopes
