Nelson Mota is Associate Professor at Delft University
of Technology. He holds a professional degree in Architecture (1998) and an
advanced master in Architecture, Territory and Memory (2006) from the Department
of Architecture at University of Coimbra (Portugal) and a PhD (2014) from Delft
University of Technology. His doctoral dissertation “An Archaeology of the
Ordinary. Rethinking the Architecture of Dwelling from CIAM to Siza” focuses on
how vernacular social and spatial practices were accommodated in the discourse
and practice of the architecture of dwelling developed from the post-war period
to the late 1980s.
He is the author of the book A Arquitectura do
Quotidiano (The Architecture of the Everyday) published in 2010, and
co-editor of Footprint #17: “The ‘Bread & Butter’ of Architecture:
Investigating Everyday Practices” published in 2015, and Joelho #8:
“Ideas and Practices for the European City” published in 2017. He has
contributed as architecture critic for the magazine C3, and published
scholarly articles focused on housing issues and vernacular architecture in
journals such as The Journal of Architecture, Volume, DASH,OASE, Footprint, and Site Magazine. He is production
editor and member of the editorial board of the academic journal Footprint.
