João Puga Alves

PhD Student
Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, FCUL

Architecture, gardens, gardens, fences, coutos and landscape in a conventual and monastic context, predominant in the Modern Age
History of water and hydraulics in the context of gardens and the agricultural landscape

2019-2021: AQUA. Horto Aquam Salutarem: Water Wise Management in Gardens in the Early Modern Period, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/HAR-HIS/28627/201).
"A água como matriz orientadora da organização das cercas na Idade Moderna: estudo comparativo de quatro casos". Project for PhD dissertation in History and Philosophy of Sciences, Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Supervisor: Ana Duarte Rodrigues, 2016-2019. (still in progress)

João Puga Alves, "The Water that Passes Through Alcoa and Baça: The Hydraulic System of the Monastery of Alcobaça" in Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Carmen Toribio Marín (eds.), The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula. Between the Sixteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries, Trends in the History of Science book series, Cham: Springer/Birkhauser, 2020, pp. 309-330. Series Print ISSN: 2297-2951. ISBN: 978-3-030-34060-5.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34061-2_14
João Puga Alves, “O Couto de Alcobaça e a Sua Relação com a Água”, in Pelos Trilhos da Água na Arquitectura, Roca Lisboa Gallery, 2020, pp.14-26. ISBN 978-989-54585-2-3
“The Convent of Espírito Santo. A new approach to the study and dissemination of the convent spaces” in Cloister Gardens, Courtyards and Monastic Enclosures, 2015.
Quinta do Conventinho, Guia interactivo, 2014