Architect and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho (EAAD), and researcher at the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT). Was Vice-President and President of the Pedagogical Council of EAAD between 2021 and 2024. He holds a degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, a master’s degree in architecture, Territory and Memory from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Minho, with the theme of road infrastructure in the ‘deruralized’ and extensively urbanized territory of Santa Maria da Feira.
Since 2004 he has taught several courses. He has supervised approximately 35 master’s dissertations on topics such as the extensively urbanised territory, public space design, and the transformation of the Portuguese Atlantic façade. He currently supervises four PhD students. In 2022/2023 he joined the teaching staff of the course Territory Forum: Public Space in the Advanced Studies Programme in Territory at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP).
At Lab2PT he has developed research on the teaching of themes related to the city and territory; team member of the digital platform https://onbeingwithit.lab2pt.net/pt. In 2017; team member of the project NoVoid: Ruins and Vacant Land in Portuguese Cities, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). In 2019 he joined the research team of the project A&BM – The Sea and the Coast, Architecture and Marine Biology: The Impact of Marine Life on the Built Environment, also funded by FCT. Since September 2023 is team member of GREENGAP, a INTEREEG project which aims to promote local green infrastructures, restore biodiversity, and promote landscapes resilience to the effects of climate change. In 2025 became team member od FORMA project, focused on developing customised structures to strengthen urban resilience. Since february 2025, with Lab2PT and the association the Future Design of Streets, becames PI of the Exploratory Project STREET – Street Transformations, Rebalancing Ecology and Environment Issues in Urban Territories, funded by FCT.
As a member of the board of the UM-Cidades platform (2018-2020), he participated in the organisation and jury of the Municipalities of the Year competition, an anual event that promotes exemplary practices in city and territorial governance, contributing to a more sustainable and just society.
In 2020 he co-founded the association the Future Design of Streets (https://thefuturedesignofstreets.eu/) with Daniel Casas Valle, organising three webinar series and two international conferences (Porto, 2022, and Guimarães, 2025) that brought to Portugal some of the leading European experts involved in street transformation and committed to the decarbonisation of cities and their adaptation to a new climatic context.
Recognising that the transformation of public space and local mobility patterns requires interventions across multiple scales, he has sought to create spaces for debate and reflection at the intermunicipal and regional level. On this topic, he was written and organized public discussions involving political actors, technical experts and the wider community, for example, the recent debate held in Guimarães (2025) titled “Railways in Minho: articulating lines, building a network, serving the territory” and the opinion article “Railways in Minho and light mobility systems: building networks, strengthening accessibility, and enhancing public space”, published in Jornal de Notícias.
Architecture, City and Territory, Urbanism, Public Space
Public Space and Street Transformation and Climate Change
Selected publications
Oliveira, I. Juan, M. L. (2017) "Aproximações na produção de conhecimento sobre as coisas do território" in M. L. Juan & I. Oliveira (eds.) Experiências pedagógicas sobre território nas escolas de arquitetura. Universidade do Minho. Laboratório de Paisagem, Património e Território (Lab2PT), Guimarães. pp. 100-103. DOI
Oliveira, I. (2017) “The rebirth of cities inside the territorial system of public spaces in the Portugueses northwest” in Urbanistica Informazioni nº272. INU Edizioni, Roma. Jan-Fev 2017.pp.74-78. DOI
Oliveira, I.; Silva, C. F.; Pereira, D. D.; Labastida, M.; Carlos, R.; Riso, V. (2017) "On Being With-us: Our Experience Teaching the Subject of Territory/Sobre a Nossa Experiência no Ensino do Território" in C. F. Silva & D. D. Pereira (eds.) On Being With-it: A Forward-looking Dialogue on the Experience of Learning through Territory/Diálogo Prospetivo sobre a Experiência de Aprendizagem através do Território. Universidade do Minho. Laboratório de Paisagem, Património e Território (Lab2PT), Guimarães. pp. 34-86. DOI
Oliveira, I. (2015) Revisões da infraestrutura viária local: o reconhecimento do lugar público no território desruralizado e extensamente urbanizadode Santa Maria da Feira, Universidade do Minho. DOI
Oliveira, I. (2016) “A condição de estranheza perante a arquitectura da justiça. O abandono dos antigos edifícios e a retirada do estado dos processos de concepção e construção de novos edifícios” in Carrondo, C.; Marinho, C.; Ribeiro, N. (eds) O Estranho e o Estrangeiro no Teatro. Centro de Estudos Teatrais da Universidade do Porto (CETUP), Porto. pp. 207-222. DOI
Other publications
Oliveira, I. Juan, M. L. (2017) "Aproximações na produção de conhecimento sobre as coisas do território" in M. L. Juan & I. Oliveira (eds.) Experiências pedagógicas sobre território nas escolas de arquitetura. Universidade do Minho. Laboratório de Paisagem, Património e Território (Lab2PT), Guimarães. pp. 100-103. DOI
Oliveira, I. (2017) “The rebirth of cities inside the territorial system of public spaces in the Portugueses northwest” in Urbanistica Informazioni nº272. INU Edizioni, Roma. Jan-Fev 2017.pp.74-78. DOI
Oliveira, I.; Silva, C. F.; Pereira, D. D.; Labastida, M.; Carlos, R.; Riso, V. (2017) "On Being With-us: Our Experience Teaching the Subject of Territory/Sobre a Nossa Experiência no Ensino do Território" in C. F. Silva & D. D. Pereira (eds.) On Being With-it: A Forward-looking Dialogue on the Experience of Learning through Territory/Diálogo Prospetivo sobre a Experiência de Aprendizagem através do Território. Universidade do Minho. Laboratório de Paisagem, Património e Território (Lab2PT), Guimarães. pp. 34-86. DOI
Oliveira, I. (2015) Revisões da infraestrutura viária local: o reconhecimento do lugar público no território desruralizado e extensamente urbanizadode Santa Maria da Feira, Universidade do Minho. DOI
Oliveira, I. (2016) “A condição de estranheza perante a arquitectura da justiça. O abandono dos antigos edifícios e a retirada do estado dos processos de concepção e construção de novos edifícios” in Carrondo, C.; Marinho, C.; Ribeiro, N. (eds) O Estranho e o Estrangeiro no Teatro. Centro de Estudos Teatrais da Universidade do Porto (CETUP), Porto. pp. 207-222. DOI
2025/2026
Dissertação
Integrated Master
Metodologias e Práticas de Investigação em Arquitetura
Doctoral Program
