Luís Miguel Correia
is Assistant Professor at the Department of
Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DA-UC) and PhD researcher in the
Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS 20). He
graduates in Architecture by the DA-UC in 1994. In 2008, he receives his Master
from the Department of Civil Engineering of UC with the dissertation “Castelos em Portugal: Retrato do seu perfil
arquitectónico [1509-1949]” (Castles in Portugal: Portrait of its
architectonic profile [1509-1949]), which was published by Coimbra University
Press in 2010.
In 2016, he is awarded his PhD by the UC with the
doctoral thesis “Monumentos, Território e
Identidade no Estado Novo: Da definição de um projecto à memorização de um
legado” (Cultural heritage, Territory and Identity in the New State: From
the definition of a project to the remembrance of a legacy). He is author of
several articles and communications, with particular research emphasis
dedicated to the so-called cultural
heritage and to its relationship that, since the eighteenth century, was
established with the territory, the landscape, and most of all, with a certain
idea of national identity.
