Miguel Reimão Costa is an Assistant Professor in Algarve’s University where he teaches the undergraduate and masters program in Landscape Architecture (FCT-Ualg), as well as the masters program in History and Heritage (FCHS-Ualg). He is an Architect with a graduate degree (1989/95) and a PhD (2005/09) in Architecture, both from the University of Oporto, Portugal. He studied in the Faculty of Architecture at Federico II Univesity of Naples (1993/94) and in the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville (1999/2000). He worked as an architect in Oporto, Macao, New York and Faro and coordinated the Office for the Villages of Algarve (Gtaa – Sotavento, 2001/04). He is a member of CEAACP/Ualg and CEPAC/Ualg. He is also a member of the board of Campo Arqueológico de Mértola. His research interests include domestic architecture, settlements and the landscape in southern Portugal and the Mediterranean, from the modern period onwards.