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

Project Information

ArchLabour

Grant agreement ID: 101096606

DOI

10.3030/101096606

EC signature date 18 October 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2028

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 996,20

EU contribution

€ 2 499 996,00

Coordinated by

ASSOCIACAO ISCTE CONHECIMENTO E INOVACAO - CENTRO DE VALORIZACAO E TRANSFERENCIA DE TECNOLOGIAS
Portugal

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Publications

Conference proceedings (9)

Disseminating and accessing colonial records: Exploring the Portuguese public works database

Author(s): Sónia Pereira Henrique
Published in: Colonial and post-colonial landscapes I – Architectures, cities, infrastructures in Africa: Coast to coast researchers’ book, 2025
Publisher: ISCTE-IUL

“Model” workers’ villages?: Company rule and adobe-brick houses in late colonial Africa

Author(s): Beatriz Serrazina
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Construction History, 2024
Publisher: Vdf Hochschulverlag

Mining Labor, Housing and Building Sites across Central Africa

Author(s): Beatriz Serrazina
Published in: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) Working Papers. Vol. 343 - Colonial Building Cultures and Labor, 2025
Publisher: IASTE

Transposing the discourse of industrialised construction in housing between Lisbon and Luanda during the 1970s

Author(s): Inês Lima Rodrigues
Published in: Modern futures. Sustainable development and cultural diversity: 18ª Conferencia Internacional Docomomo, 2024
Publisher: Ediciones ARQ

Women, colonialism and building sites: Gender experiences in former African territories ruled by the Portuguese through colonial archives

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Construction History, 2024
Publisher: Vdf Hochschulverlag

"Between the musseque and the neighbourhood unit: Spotting ""compagnons de route"" architectures in Luanda (1961-1975)"

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro, Leonor Matos Silva
Published in: Modern futures. Sustainable development and cultural diversity: 18ª Conferencia Internacional Docomomo, 2024
Publisher: Ediciones ARQ

Narratives on women architects in former Africa colonised by Portuguese rule: professional profiles based on training practices

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro
Published in: Proceedings ICAG2023 - VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender, 2024
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de València
DOI: 10.4995/ICAG2023.2023.16718

On What Material Do You Want It to be Made…? Negotiations and Colonial Building Sites in African Territories Under Late Portuguese Rule

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro
Published in: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) Working Papers. Vol. 343 - Colonial Building Cultures and Labor, 2025
Publisher: IASTE

Large construction companies in the widespread of modern housing: A comparative analysis between Lisbon and Luanda

Author(s): Inês Lima Rodrigues, Francesca Vita
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Construction History, 2024
Publisher: Vdf Hochschulverlag

Book chapters (6)

Modern tropical interiors in Africa: Carlota Quintanilha’s training and practice (1944–1966)

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro
Published in: Modernist women interior designers and artists., 2024
Publisher: docomomo Portugal; docomomo ISC/ID

A key to Portuguese colonial Public Works records: the copybooks of correspondence of the Direção-Geral do Ultramar, 1880-1910

Author(s): Sónia Henrique
Published in: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes I – Architectures, Cities, Infrastructures in Africa. Coast to Coast Researchers’ book, 2025
Publisher: n.a.

Building the fringes of Empire: mining companies, transnational experts, race and space in colonial Africa

Author(s): Beatriz Serrazina
Published in: Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture, 2025
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003266044

On building empires

Author(s): Beatriz Serrazina
Published in: Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires, 2025
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003405726-10

Waterford Kamhlaba: nove frames de um estaleiro habitado

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro
Published in: Cem Anos Pancho Guedes, 2025
Publisher: Fundação Serra Henriques

On building empires

Author(s): Beatriz Serrazina
Published in: Technical and Scientific Training in the Construction of Empires, 2025
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003405726-

Peer reviewed articles (5)

A habitação para trabalhadores na concessão da Diamang

Author(s): Beatriz Serrazina
Published in: Revista de História das Ideias, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 2183-8925
Publisher: Coimbra University Press
DOI: 10.14195/2183-8925_43_9

Urban Policies, Architectural Dissonances, and Not So ‘Modern’ Buildings in Late Colonial Luanda

Author(s): Beatriz Serrazina
Published in: e-Journal of Portuguese History, Issue 22, 2025, ISSN 1645-6432
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/16456432-BJA10007

“Uma Guiné Melhor”: the psychological action and the spatialization of population control in rural areas. The strategic villages in Guinea-Bissau between 1968-1973

Author(s): Francesca Vita
Published in: Africana Studia - Revista Internacional de Estudos Africanos, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 0874-2375
Publisher: Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras
DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/AFR39A5

Gendered Work in Former Portuguese Colonial Africa: Mass Labor and Public Works

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro
Published in: The Journal of Modern Craft, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1749-6772
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/17496772.2025.2547479

Wartime residential rural landscapes <i>the Guinea-Bissau case during the colonial/liberation war with the Portuguese (1963–1974)</i>

Author(s): Ana Vaz Milheiro
Published in: Cogent Arts &amp; Humanities, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2331-1983
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2024.2303184CULTURE

Monographic books (2)

Colonial and post-colonial landscapes I – Architectures, cities, infrastructures in Africa: Coast to Coast researchers’ book

Author(s): A.V.Milheiro, S.P.Henrique, F.Fiúza, B.Serrazina, et. al.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: DINÂMIA'CET-IUL

Colonial and post-colonial landscapes: Architecture, colonialism and war. Papers’ booklet

Author(s): A.V.Milheiro, B.Serrazina, I.L.Rodrigues, L.M.Silva, S.P.Henrique
Published in: 2025
Publisher: DINÂMIA'CET-IUL