Nelson Mota

Nelson Mota is an associate professor of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. He graduated as an architect at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) where he also concluded an advanced master’s in Architecture, Territory and Memory in 2006. He earned his doctoral degree from TU Delft in 2014 with the dissertation "An Archaeology of the Ordinary: Rethinking the Architecture of Dwelling from CIAM to Siza". Nelson is a founding partner of the architectural office comoco arquitectos. He is the author of the book A Arquitectura do Quotidiano (The Architecture of the Everyday) published in 2010, and co-editor of Global Housing: Dwelling in Addis Ababa, published in 2020. He has co-edited several academic journal issues and published widely on the topics of housing design and architectural ethnography. At the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment-TU Delft, Nelson is the co-leader of the research group Global Housing and coordinator of the Global Housing educational program. He is a member of the editorial board of the book series DASH - Delft Architectural Studies on Housing.

Nelson Mota is a member of the team that won the 2022 edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning , for the online course Global Housing Design. The course, which focuses on the design of sustainable and inclusive housing, directly addresses the critical global need for urban development expertise, with close to a billion people worldwide currently living in inadequate housing. In 2022 Nelson was also awarded the Comenius Fellowship (NWO-NRO) for innovative approaches in architectural education for the elective course Architectural Ethnography.