Overview

This session will present the 3D model of the monastery's reconstitution in 1834 and explain how it was elaborated throughout the SANTACRUZ Project. We will revisit the major phases of the monastery's construction, with the support of Maria de Lurdes Craveiro, Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. We will also revisit, guided by Alexandre Ramires, the numerous photographic campaigns carried out in the second half of the 19^th century, which were an invaluable source for the model. At the end, a guided tour will take place through a series of hotspots strategically placed in the former monastic dependencies and surrounding spaces, where participants will be able to confront the current reality with the corresponding situation in 1834, using QR Codes to be read by the participants' Smartphones and Tablets.

Bio notes

Rui Lobo is a professor at the Architecture Department of FCTUC and a researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He holds PhD in Architecture, in 2010, at the University of Coimbra: A Universidade na Cidade. Urbanismo e Arquitectura universitários na Península Ibérica da Idade Média e da primeira Idade Moderna. He has produced research in the field of Theory and History of Architecture, particularly in the history of university architecture and urbanism and in the history of Portuguese architecture (16th to 18th centuries). He has taught course units of Architecture Theory and History, Design and Research Seminar. Between 2015 and 2018, he was Subdirector of the Department of Architecture of FCTUC. He is currently Principal Researcher of the Santa Cruz Research Project, financed by FCT and FEDER/COMPETE2020/POCI.

Mauro Costa Couceiro is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. Over the past two decades, he has been teaching and developing techniques and technologies around analogies between Biology, Architecture and Design, particularly in the interaction of analog and digital processes, covering the fields of materialization and design through robotic methods (CAM) and Artificial Intelligence (CCAD – Computer Creative Assisted Design). He has developed his doctoral research at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, linking to this day the “Consolidated Research Group of Genetic Architectures” in Barcelona.

Maria de Lurdes Craveiro Maria de Lurdes Craveiro is Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Arts Faculty of the University of Coimbra (FLUC). She is Correspondent Academic of the National Academy of Fine Arts. PhD in Art History from FLUC (2002) and teacher since 1988 at the Art History Institute of this Faculty. She is currently Coordinator of the 3rd Cycle in Art History. She is the principal researcher of the “Multidisciplinary Art Studies Group” (GEMA), integrated in July 2007 at the Center for Studies in Archeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences, R&D Unit 281 of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT). In collaboration with various entities she has taken a prominent action in the defense, conservation and dissemination of architectural heritage. Noteworthy in Coimbra are the Trindade College, the Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery, the Inquisition Courtyard, the medieval S. Domingos Monastery, the Santa Cruz Monastery, the Old Cathedral and the New Cathedral of Coimbra, Grijó Monastery and the church of S. Julião at Figueira da Foz. She has over half a hundred scientific works published in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Brazil and the United States of America, covering the conceptual review exercise in Art History, heritage issues or the fields of painting, sculpture and architecture since the late Middle Ages to the neoclassical period.

Alexandre Ramires is a teacher of Physical and Chemical Sciences at Infanta D.Maria Secondary School in Coimbra. He has taught History of Photography and Photographic Genres for the Degree in Artistic Studies at the Arts Faculty of the University of Coimbra. He was Director of the Imagoteca Municipal of Coimbra. He was coordinator of the Porto Photography Archive of the Portuguese Center of Photography. He conceived and executed, among others, the exhibitions: “Memória das Oposições”, about the activity of oppositions to the Estado Novo; “Há horas que são de todos” and “25 por 25 | Em Abril, um Quartel Depois”, on the 25 of April 1974 in Coimbra; “Revelar Coimbra” and “Passado ao Espelho”, on the beginnings of photography in Coimbra; “Ver a Republica”, about the relationship of the University of Coimbra with the establishment of the Republic in Portugal. He develops research on the History of Photography in Portugal and especially in Coimbra, where he has authored several publications.

Miguel Alberto is Master in Architecture by DARQ-FCTUC, he completed his master thesis on “Use of Contemporary Digital Tools in the Research in History of Architecture”, defended in September 2020, within the scope of the Santa Cruz Project. He has been a fellow of the Santa Cruz Project since March 2020, and is currently developing the 3D model for the reconstruction of the Santa Cruz monastery in the year of 1834.