Apresentação Pessoal

Sidh Losa Mendiratta is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, and an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, based in the same Faculty. Since September 2024 he is the Coordinator of the research project "ID-SCAPES: Building Identity. Religious Architecture and Sacral Landscapes of Christian Minorities in India and Bangladesh (ERC/COG/101125057)" funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2024-2029), and since January 2022 he is the Co-Principal Investigator of the research project "PORTofCALL. African-Asian-European Encounters: Cultural Heritage and Ports of Call in the Indian Ocean during the Early Modern Period (FCT/PTDC/ART-DAQ/4357/2021)" funded by COMPETE 2020 and FCT (2022-2025). He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Coimbra (2012, summa cum laude) funded by an FCT fellowship. Between 2012 and August 2024, he was an Integrated Research at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, and also an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University of Porto, holding the chair of History of Portuguese Architecture, part of the Integrated Masters in Architecture. In 2013 he was awarded the "Fernando Távora" prize by the Architects' Order of Portugal. He is the author of the books "The Church and Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Chimbel" (2021) and "Domus-fortis in Æquator: a segunda vida da casa-torre de origem Europeia no antigo Estado da Índia" (2019). In 2011, he was a visting scholar at the Xavier Centre for Historical Research, Goa. Specializing in cultural heritage of Portuguese influence in South and Southeast Asia, he has conducted twenty-seven georeferenced topographic surveys of archaeological and architectural sites in India, collaborating with the Archaeological Survey of India, Fundação Oriente and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He is author and/or coauthor of over seventy papers, including five papers presented at the Society of Architectural Historians International Conference (2008, 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2024).

Áreas de Interesse

1. Technological sciences > Architecture