Santa Rita College

Santa Rita College, in Coimbra, was founded by the Order of the Barefoot Hermits of St. Augustine ("cricket friars ") in 1755. Although it was a college of a religious order, due to its late construction, in the context of the upper city, it followed a palatial typology. With a "U" plan, organized around a patio, the building has three floors that accompany the unevenness of the terrain. To the south, on the lower floor, was the access to the chapel and to the college. On the first floor was the dormitory, which occupied the entire west wing, with cells arranged on either side of a central corridor. To the north, on a higher level, was the kitchen and the refectory, which had a pulpit on the east wall. Extinct in 1834, the college was adapted according to the uses to which it was subjected such as private residence, student residence, teacher's house and property of the Academic Association.

The work mainly consisted in the recollection and redesign of building surveys plus the recollection of images and old photographs in order to create a photographic archive.

• CORREIA, Virgílio; GONÇALVES, Nogueira – Inventário Artístico de Portugal, Volume 2: Cidade de Coimbra. Lisboa: Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, 1947, p.127-128
• JORGE, Filipe; BANDEIRINHA, José António - Coimbra vista do céu | Coimbra from the sky. Lisboa: Argumentum, 2003
• LOBO, Rui – “Os Colégios Universitários de Coimbra, Enquadramento na arquitectura universitária europeia e seriação tipológica”. Monumentos. Lisboa: Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana. Nº 25 (Setembro de 2006), p.32-45
• RAMIRES, Alexandre – Revelar Coimbra. Os inícios da imagem fotográfica em Coimbra 1842-1900. Coimbra: MNMC, 2001
• RAMIRES, Alexandre – Passado ao Espelho. Máquinas e imagens das vésperas e primórdios da Photographia. Coimbra: Museu de Física da Universidade de Coimbra, 2006
• VASCONCELOS, António de – Os colégios universitários de Coimbra. Coimbra : Coimbra Editora, 1938
• SIPA

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2012/2013