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Accepted Paper:
Portuguese cities in Asia, since the early 16th century
José Manuel Fernandes
(Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa)
Paper short abstract:
Urban portuguese-asian sites developed since the early 1500s, structured as a system of small harbour cities, spreaded all over Asian coastal lines.
Paper long abstract:
These portuguese-asian cities allowed the fast constitution of an intercontinental commerce network, for the first time in History connecting South and Northern European cities with the various Asian ones. They folowed basic medieval-renaissance European models in their structure, form and space - an aspect that turned them to be very much unique as they were soon transplanted into the new and completely different context of Asian areas. And they expressed a common "Portuguese" pattern of location, of urban form and built ambiance, as their structural elements were largely repetitive and constant, from one new city to the next, in a deliberate traditional manner.