11/06/2026
📢 Don’t miss the third and final before the summer SUCY architecture Seminar of the semester, part of the series “THE BROAD FIELD OF ARCHITECTURE” here at UCY!
👤 Speaker: Jorge Correia
📋 Title: Urban and Built Research for Intervention: Case Studies in Palestine and Morocco
🗓️ Date: Τhu 18.06.2026, 16:00 (EEST)
📢 This lecture will examine three case studies — Nablus, Palestine; Asilah and El Jadida, Morocco — in which architectural and urban history have operated as critical instruments for analysis, strategy, and design interventions. Situated within Arab contexts, they emerge from collaborative in loco research aimed at addressing key questions surrounding medinas understood as intercultural palimpsests of the built fabric.
In Palestine, from its classical layout to the present condition of conflict, Nablus offers a framework for reflecting on priorities within contexts marked by war. The Moroccan examples foreground long-term dynamics of settlement, appropriation, adaptation, and transformation, inviting a reassessment of prevailing postcolonial readings. Asilah, whose extended Arab-Muslim trajectory was briefly interrupted by a Portuguese layer, has undergone processes of gentrification and patrimonialisation that continue to derive from colonial legacies while fostering modes of intervention. Finally, El Jadida — home to the earliest early modern fortification in Africa, now inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site — provides an opportunity to reconsider regeneration practices and the adaptive reuse of former colonial structures.
👤 Jorge Correia is Full Professor and Vice-Dean for Culture and Internationalisation at the School of Architecture, Art and Design (EAAD), and a researcher at the Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), University of Minho, Portugal. His teaching, academic supervision, and publications focus on heritage, urban history, and architectural history. His research explores the intercultural dimensions of the built environment, with particular emphasis on the interactions between early modern colonial settlements and Islamic architecture and urbanism.
Within this framework, he has served as a guest professor and staff fellow at several universities across Iberia, Brazil, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East. He has held a number of senior academic and leadership positions, including Vice-Dean for Education at EAAD, President of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), Director of Lab2PT, and Head of Programmes at the Norman Foster Institute. He is currently a member of the IDEAS Committee of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).
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