Rute Figueiredo
ehemalige Doktorandin
Curriculum vitae

Rute Figueiredo is an architect and an architectural historian (M.Phil. in Art History). Her main interests are the architectural disciplinary culture, the study of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the architectural critical discourse published in periodical press. She is the author of Architecture and Critical Discourse in Portugal 1893-1918, which won the prize José Figueiredo’2008 awarded by the Portuguese National Academy of Fine Arts. She designed and coordinates the research project The Site of Discourse, sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Rute Figueiredo is member of Contemporary Studies in the R&D Unit, Institute of Art History - New University of Lisbon. She is pursuing a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture at the gta/D-ARCH/ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Ákos Moravánszky. Her doctoral thesis analyzes how architectural disciplinary frames have been conceptualized and discussed within the context of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

EDUCATION:
_gta | D-ARCH | ETH Zurich
PhD Candidate, History and Theory of the Architecture
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Ákos Moravánszky (gta/D-ARCH/ETH)

Since Oct. 2010
_Faculty of Human and Social Sciences – New University of Lisbon
Master, Contemporary Art History
2003
Master’s degree with distinction in Contemporary Art History
Title: Architecture and Critical Discourse in Portugal (1893-1918)

_Faculty of Architecture –Technical University of Lisbon
B.A. in Architecture, Lisbon
1994

SCHOLARSHIPS:
_SNSF Research Scholarship, Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland
2014 – 2015
_PhD scholarship, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology Portuguese Ministry of Science
2011-2013
_Research scholarship, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology / Portuguese Ministry of Science
Research project: “Civil Service Architecture in Portugal: Portuguese Judicial Architecture”. DGEMN/MOP
2003 – 2006
_Dissertation Grant, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology / Portuguese Ministry of Science
1997 – 1999

PRIZES: 

_José Figueiredo 2008’ prize, awarded by the National Academy for Fine Arts/ Academia Nacional de Belas Artes.
2008
_Thyssen ’96 International Competition Award, given by Thyssen Industrie (with Ricardo Carvalho). 
Jury commission: Siza Vieira, Santiago Calatrava, Manuel Salgado, Pedro Brandão, Alfonso Vegara Gómez, Jaune Duró i Pifarré. [Third Prize]
1996

PhD DISSERTATION:
SNSF Research Project
Beyond the Venice Architecture Biennal

The research project Beyond the Venice Architecture Biennale analyzes how architectural disciplinary frames have been conceptualized, discussed and presented within the context of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, from 1980 to the onset of the 21st century. It is, thus, concerned with connecting two apparently distinctive story lines: architecture’s disciplinary culture on the one hand, and the Venice Biennale’s own culture on the other.
The study will, as the title suggests, look beyond the biannual architectural displays to enquire how the crossed analysis of three lines of architectural discourse — public discourse, institutional discourse, critical discourse — and how the constellations of relationships (between actors, institutions, concepts and fields of knowledge) in which the events are grounded, can reveal new arguments on the topic. In this sense, the route proposed from the Presence of the Past (the first exhibition, curated by Paolo Portoghesi in 1980) to Fundamentals (curated by Rem Koolhaas in 2014), embodies a story line an axis of which is given by the disciplinary discourse.
The research project has been motivated by the idea that disciplinary knowledge is not exclusively contained in academic or classificatory categories and that the study of architectural discipline should consider its own fluctuations over time: architecture is a historically discontinuous field and a subject of change.

RESEARCH PROJECTS: 

The Site of Discourse [PTDC/CPC-HA T/4894/2012]
Research project supported by National Funds throughout FCT — National Foundation for Science and Technology
IHA-FCSH/UNL | DINAMIA’CET/ ISCTE
http://sitediscourse.org
Coordinator and Researcher
2013-2015

The Colonial Urbanization Offices: Architectural Culture and Practice
Research project supported by FCT — National Foundation for Science and Technology, IHRU / ISCT / IICT

Researcher
2010 – 2012

Civil Service Portuguese Architecture, during the 20th century: Judicial Architecture
research project supported by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology,
DGEMN/ MOP
Researcher
2003 – 2006


RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

_Contemporary Studies in the R&D Unit, History of Arts Institute – New University of Lisbon,
Researcher
Since 2007
_Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana
(Housing and Urban Regeneration Institut), Lisbon.
Researcher
2007 – 2011 

_Direcção-Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais
(Government Agency of Public Buildings and Monuments), Lisbon. 

Researcher
2003 – 2007 

_Instituto Português de Património Arquitectónico
(Portuguese Institute of Architectural Heritage), Lisbon.
2000 – 2002 

_Research work conducted for the inventory of the Portuguese Industrial Architecture in the 20th century, promoted by the DO.CO.MO.MO. Iberia.
2000 – 2001

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:
2016_ 2016-ENNIALS: A GEOGRAPHY OF TEMPORARY TERRITORIES
Lisbon Architecture Triennale | Oslo Architecture Triennale
(with Lea-Catherine Szacka)
co-curator
2016
_11 Dec. Lisbon Architecture Triennale/ Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. Lisbon
participants:
André Tavares (PT) – Chief Curator, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Beatriz Colomina (ES) and Mark Wigley (NZ) – Curators, Istanbul Design Biennale
After Belonging Agency (ES) – Curatorial Team, Oslo Architecture Triennale
_10 Sep. - Oslo Architecture Triennale/ Oslo School of Architecture and Design - AHO
participants:
Hege Maria Eriksson (NO) – Former Director, Oslo Architecture Triennale
José Mateus (PT) – Chairman, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Sarah Herda (US) – Director, Graham Foundation
_27 May, Venice Architecture Biennale/ Nordic Pavilion (Giardini)
participants:
Abdelkader Damani (DZ) – Director, FRAC Orléans
David Basulto (CL) and James Taylor-Foster (UK) – Curator and Assistant Curator, 2016 Nordic Pavilion
Martino Stierli (CH) – Philip Johnson Chief Curator, MoMA
http://www.trienaldelisboa.com/theformofform/en/satelites/2006-ennials/

2015 _ FIGUEIREDO, Rute with PINTO, Paulo Tormenta; CASTELO, Pedro (org.)
International Conference ‘The Site of Discourse. Thinking architecture through publications’. Lisbon, Museu do Dinheiro - Banco de Portugal; MUDE; Câmara Municipal Lisboa. URL: http://sitediscourse.org/events/the-site-of- discourse/
2015 _ FIGUEIREDO, Rute with ALVES, M.. The housing problem in the architecture periodical press: manifest, critic and divulgation [Panel session] International Conference ‘Optimistic Suburbia’. Lisbon, ISCTE
URL: http://optimisticsuburbia.wix.com/portuguese#!sessoespt/c3rv
2014-2015 _ FIGUEIREDO, Rute; PINTO, Paulo Tormenta (org.). Cycle "Agents", Ordem dos Arquitectos / Portuguese College of Architects, Lisbon,HA-FCSH/UNL; DINAMIA'CET
2014-2015 _ FIGUEIREDO, Rute; PINTO, Paulo Tormenta (org.). Cycle "Cover/Themes" Ordem dos Arquitectos / Portuguese College of Architects, Lisbon; IHA-FCSH/UNL; DINAMIA'CET
2013 _ FIGUEIREDO, Rute with ACCIAIUOLI, M.; ALVES, M.; PINTO, P.. The Site of Discourse — is it architecture? ArchitectureLisbonTriennial“Close/Closer”/AssociatedProject, Lisbon, Ler Devagar/ Lx Factory. URL: http://www.close- closer.com/pt/programa/projetos-associados/the-site-of-discourse-a-is-it- architecture

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2009-2010 _ Lecturer, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences – New University of Lisbon, Lisbon

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
2016 _ "The site of discourse". First International Workshop Architectural Criticism between Public Debate and Autonomous Discipline. Université Rennes 2/ Archives de la critique d'art. Rennes.
2016 _ "Fixing boundaries. Architecture and criticism" [paper]. First International Workshop Architectural Criticism between Public Debate and Autonomous Discipline. Université Rennes 2/ Archives de la critique d'art. Rennes.
2015 _ The site of discourse. International Conference ‘The site of discourse. Thinking architecture through publication’. Lisbon, Banco de Portugal/MUDE/CML.
2015 _ "Venice Architecture Biennale. On disciplinary boundaries" [paper]. Society of Architectural Historians. 68th Annual Conference. Chicago.
2015 _ "Venice Architecture Biennale: Mapping the invisible" [paper]. Historical Network Research 2015. International Conference. Lisbon
2014 _ "On the Site of Discourse" [paper]. International Coloquium Published Positions, DA/UAL, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,Lisbon.
2014 _ "O discurso sobre a cidade na transição do século". Coloquium Lisboa entre
 séculos a arquitectura ameaçada do século XIX e XX, Fórum Cidadania. Lisbon.
2013 _ "On diachronic and synchronic disciplinary discourses". Doctoral Colloquium, organised by Prof. Dr. Á. Moravánszky and Prof. Dr. L. Stalder, and guest critic Dr. Lukasz Stank. gta, D-ARCH, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2012 _ "Mapping the invisible". Doctoral Colloquium, organised by Prof. Dr. Á. Moravánszky and Prof. Dr. L. Stalder, and guest critic Tom Avermaete. gta, D-ARCH, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2012 _ "Beyond Venice Biennale of Architecture". Doctoral Colloquium, organised by Prof. Dr. Á. Moravánszky and Prof. Dr. L. Stalder, gta, D-ARCH, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2006 _ “Architecture and Justice: Instituto Navarro de Paiva”, Faculty of Psychology and Education – University of Lisbon, Lisbon.
2004 _ “Criticism in Architecture”, University of Évora, Évora.
2003 _ “Architecture and critical debate of Portuguese House”, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences – New University of Lisbon, Lisbon.

EXHIBITIONS:
2015 _ Co-curator. Thinking Architecture through publication. Banco Portugal. Lisbon
http://sitediscourse.org/thinking-architecture-through-publications/
2015 _ Coordination. Architecture in Review. Galeria Quadra, IHA / DINAMIA / ESAD. Matosinhos
http://sitediscourse.org/arquitectura-revista/
2000-2002 _ Member of the curatorial team of the exhibition Arquitectura Moderna Portuguesa 1920-1970 (Portuguese Modern Architecture 1920-1970), curated by Ana Tostões, MC-IPPAR. Lisbon.
2001 _ Exhibition “O Leitor Escreve Para Que Seja Possível” for Dia Mundial do Livro (World Book Day), Portuguese Institut for Book and Libraries/ Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Lisbon (Design team: Rute Figueiredo, Duarte Belo)
2000 - 2001_Exhibition design, Experimenta!, Leiria (Design team: Rute Figueiredo, Gonçalo Castro) [unbuilt]
2000 _ Itinerant Exhibition Ruy Belo — “Que por todos se faça a poesia”, Portuguese Institut for Book and Libraries/ Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Lisbon, Peniche, Rio Maior, Sintra e Vila do Conde (Design team: Rute Figueiredo, Duarte Belo)
1998 _ Exhibition design, Lino António (1898-1974), Leiria
1998 _ Graphic design for Colloquium Ruy Belo - Transporte no Tempo, Sintra (Design team: Rute Figueiredo, Duarte Belo)
1997 _ Member of the curatorial team of the exhibition Arquitectura do Século XX. Portugal (20th Century Architecture. Portugal) curated by Ana Tostões, Deutsches Architektur Museum of Frankfurt and Centro Cultural de Belém, Frankfurt /Lisbon.