Dr Pedro D'Alpoim Guedes
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
Publications
Books
Lewcock, Ronald and Guedes, Pedro (2020). Eastern architectures secular and religious: from pre-historic times to the early twentieth century. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, School of Architecture.
Guedes, Pedro, Baas, Cassidy, Barclay, Mackenzie, Barrass, Andrew, Brown, Thomas, Buchhorn, Hamish, Carr, Pheobe, Comer, Julia, McQueenie, Billy, Meredith, Kristian, Morlotti, Marco, Rann, Lara, Reynolds, Isabella, Roache-Wilson, Angelica, Rosmarin, Nyoah, Rudge, Siubhan, Staines, Steve, Smith, Malakai, Sweet, Lachlan, Stevenson, Acacia and Walton, Matthew (2017). Yangon Calling: UQ field experience 2017. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland School of Architecture.
Book Chapters
Guedes, Pedro (2022). Tropical building: A typology defined in British military engineering journals. The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press. (pp. 77-106) edited by Alice Santiago Faria, Anne Shelley and Sandra Ataíde Lobo. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003333180-5
Scriver, Peter, Srivastava, Amit and Guedes, Pedro (2022). Neo-Gothic in India: Autonomy, Fusion, Exuberance. Global Gothic: Gothic Church Buildings in the 20th and 21st Centuries. (pp. 98-109) edited by Barbara Borngässer and Bruno Klein. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Dismemberment of the orders and their reassembly across Portuguese overseas settlements. The Routledge handbook on the reception of classical architecture. (pp. 164-176) edited by Nicholas Temple, Andrzej Piotrowski and Juan Manuel Heredia. Abington, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315171104
Guedes, Pedro (2011). Network structures - precedents. Net works: an atlas of connective and distributive intelligence in architecture. (pp. 52-62) edited by Brett Steele and Francisco González de Canales. London, United Kingdom: Architectural Association Publications.
Guedes, P. (1979). ‘Tools, techniques and fixings’. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architecture and Technological Change. (pp. ---) edited by Guedes, P.. London: Macmillan.
Guedes, P. (1979). Building Materials. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architecture and Technological Change. (pp. ---) edited by Guedes, P.. London: Macmillan.
Journal Articles
Guedes, Pedro (2023). Nuts and bolts of informal empire – 19th century railway bridges in South America. Structural Engineer, 101 (11), 14-23. doi: 10.56330/ZJAP9986
Guedes, Pedro and Widodo, Johannes (2020). South of Cancer: Modern Architecture’s Tropical Diasporas. Docomomo Journal, 2020 (63), 4-5. doi: 10.52200/63.A.IN6GWK9B
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Behind the veils of modern tropical architecture. docomomo international, 63 (2), 7-17.
Guedes, Pedro (2014). Free plan for the 1850s: forgotten imagined architectures from mid-century. Architectural History, 57, 239-275. doi: 10.1017/s0066622x0000143x
Guedes, Pedro (2007). Tilting for windmills. Architecture Australia, 96 (6), 41-42.
Mornement, Adam and Guedes, Pedro (2007). Solutions: Metal Structures. Come back to the fold. Building Design (1781), 16-17.
Heneghan, T. and Guedes, P. D. (2006). Translucency. Architectural Theory Review, 11 (2), 78-84.
Guedes, P. D. (2006). Queensland's imported railway stations. Fabrications: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 16 (2), 100-121.
Guedes, P. D. (2006). El mercado central de Santiago: Antes de su embarque a Chile. ARQ (Santiago), 1 (64), 10-16. doi: 10.4067/S0717-69962006000300002
Guedes, P. D. (2006). Presciently translucent in Yokohama, 1891. ARQ Architectural Research Quarterly, 9 (1), 69-79. doi: 10.1017/S1359135505000096
Guedes, Pedro (2005). A place for the people. Architecture Australia, 94 (4), 31-31.
Guedes, Amancio d'Alpoim Miranda, Brizido, Andreia and Guedes, Pedro Paulo d'Alpoim (2005). O Mocambique que Camoes, seus amigos e inimigos, viram. Ar/Ur: Cadernos da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (5), 8-25.
Conference Papers
Guedes, Pedro (2023). Ondas, Curvas y otros sabores en arquitecturas de tierra. Sarañani! 2023: 3° Festival De Arkitekturas Nativas, Callao, Peru, Dec 7 - 9.
Guedes, Pedro (2022). Healing modern architecture's break with the past: musings around Brazilian fenestration. Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Adelaide, South Australia, 10-13 November, 2021. doi: 10.55939/a3990prwvx
Guedes, Pedro (2022). Arkitekturas sin edificios. Festival Sarañani! Arkitekturas Nativas de Mundo, Oaxaca, Mexico, Jan 27 - 29.
Guedes, Pedro (2021). An ‘Other’ Cosmopolitan: Amancio Guedes’ Multiple Imaginings for a Contemporary Architecture on the Swahili Coast (1950s-1970s). CAMEA Adelaide Congress, Adelaide, Australia, 7-9 November.
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Cooling in the tropics. Urban Tropicality: 7th International Network of Tropical Architecture Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 5-8 December 2019. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Arkitekturas pertenceientes a su lugar. Festival Sarañani! Arkitekturas Nativas de Mundo, Arica, Chile, 10-12 December.
Guedes, Pedro (2018). Learning from the 'other': early modern emulation and trans-imperial exchange of 'native' building technologies. 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH), Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018. London, United Kingdom: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9780429446757
Guedes, Pedro (2017). Ubique: supporting Britain’s Imperial project through military engineering journals. International Congress Politics and Culture in Colonial Periodical Press, Lisboa, Portugal, 22-25 May 2017. Lisboa, Portugal: International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire.
Guedes, Pedro (2017). Becoming the Other. SEAARC Symposium, Singapore, 5-7 January 2017. Singapore: National University of Singapore.
Guedes, Pedro (2017). The shape of hurricanes: Lieutenant Colonel Reid’s morphology of cyclonic weather system. International Network of Tropical Architecture Conference, Gainesville, FL, United States, 1-3 December 2017. Gainesville, FL, United States: College of Design, Construction and Planning, School of Architecture, University of Florida.
Guedes, Pedro (2016). Reconstructing the past to satisfy the present: fictional heritage in the USA, Peru, Brazil, South Africa & Malaysia. International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Lisbon, Portugal, 12 – 15 July 2016. Barcelos, Portugal: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development.
Guedes, Pedro (2016). Deep shade in Australia: adapting the verandah to public buildings. International Conference of the European Architectural History Network, (EAHN), Dublin, Ireland, 2-4 June 2016. Dublin, Ireland: UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy.
Guedes, Pedro (2015). Ecstasies of global reach: Catholic missionary building and settlements before 1750. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2015. Sydney, NSW, Australia: SAHANZ.
Guedes, Pedro (2014). Infrastructures for the Spice Trade: factories and fortified enclaves on the shores of the Indian Ocean and Far East. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 2-5 July 2014. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia: SAHANZ.
Guedes, Pedro (2014). At bustling edges of Empire: colonial cities founded on trade, extractions and administration before 1700. International Seminar on Urban Form, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 17-20 July 2013. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology.
Guedes, Pedro and Lewcock, Ronald B. (2012). Portuguese architectural adaptations to the architectures of the East and their legacy. Espaços Narrados - a construção dos múltiplos territórios da língua portuguesa, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, 29 October - 1 November 2012. Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de Sao Paulo FAU / USP.
Guedes, Pedro (2011). Firm foundations or shaky ground? Unraveling tangled threads of attribution. Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 7-10 July 2011. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ).
Guedes, P. D. (2006). Contesting accepted narratives of the 1851 Crystal Palace. SAHANZ 2006: The 23rd annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Freemantle, W.A., 29 September - 2 October 2006. Freemantle, Australia: SAHANZ.
Guedes, P. and Jamieson, P. (2005). Exchanging ideas: Extending the repertoire of learning space out of doors. AASA 2005: Third International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia: Drawing Together: Convergent Practises in Architectural Education, Brisbane, Australia, 28-30 September 2005. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology; The University of Queensland.
Guedes, P. (2005). William Vose Pickett’s celebration of an imagined architecture - The failure of invention without representation. Celebration: The 22nd annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Napier, New Zealand, 24-27 September 2005. Napier, New Zealand: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.
Guedes, P. D. (2004). Limitless habitation: A revolution and dwelling in Meiji, Japan. Limits: The 21st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 September 2004. Melbourne, Australia: SAHANZ.
Guedes, P. D. (2003). What, Architecture? Not Architecture! Iron's last stand in the arena of Architectural legitimacy. The 20th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, New South Wales, 3-5 October, 2003. Sydney: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand.
Guedes, Pedro (2002). The iron duke’s West Indian barracks. Additions to Architectural History, XIXth Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia, 4-7 October 2002. Brisbane, Australia: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
Guedes, Pedro P.D. (2000). Unwanted Cargo: pRe-fabricating Toowoomba station. Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Wellington, New Zealand, 13-17 Nov, 2000. South Australia: Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand.
Guedes, Pedro (1998). Corrugated Iron: H. R. Palmer, his milieu and the material before Galvanisation. Fifteenth Annual Conference of The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 1998. Melbourne: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand.
Thesis
Pedro Guedes (2010). Iron in building, 1750 - 1855: Innovation and cultural resistance. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion Classics, The University of Queensland.
Design
Creative Works
Guedes, Pedro (2023). CHINA 2023. Brisbane, Australia:
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Por trás dos véus da arquitetura tropical moderna. São Paulo: School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo.
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Abrazando calor: Cómo algunos ganaron comodidad en climas abrasadores. Arica, Chile: Fundacion Altiplano.
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Colonial architecture's contexts: images from field-trips. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland School of Architecture.
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Other peoples' countries and vagabundeando por terra de outros: virtual travels for students in COVID isolation in Australia, China, and Brazil. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland School of Architecture.
Guedes, Pedro (2009). Pancho Guedes: Vitruvius Mozambicanus. Exhibition held at Museu Colecçao Berardo, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa, Portugal, May 18 - August 16, 2009. Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa, Portugal: Museu Colecção Berardo.
Guedes, Pedro Paulo D'Alpoim (2005). Drawing of Waterford/Kamhlaba, Swaziland. Rotterdam, Netherlands:
Video Documents
Guedes, Pedro (2022). Nuts and bolts of informal empire: Victorian engineering enterprise in Latin America. James Sutherland History Lecture 2022.
Seminar Papers
Guedes, Pedro (2020). Zooming across the Pacific.
Guedes, Pedro (2014). Algumas arquiteturas de pancho guedes: vitruvius mozambicanus. AUH ENCONTROS. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, University of São Paulo.