the arch/ves
- Architecture, Urbanism and Design Archive of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (FA-ULisboa) - collection currently includes 74 documentary funds and 5 collections, covering a chronological span from the 19th century to the present day.

Logically organized according to the three structuring areas - Architecture, Urbanism and Design - they are systematized into individual and thematic sub-orders, allowing for comparative, transversal and interdisciplinary approaches, which are fundamental for the construction of a critical historiography of the built environment in Portugal.

All the collections are currently undergoing technical and scientific treatment, including inventorying and standardized cataloguing, high-resolution digitization, archival description by piece and semantic indexing in the arch/ves digital repository, recovery, conservation and subsequent packaging, guaranteeing future preservation and universal access to a cultural heritage of recognized relevance.

In their multiplicity of media and expressions, the Architecture funds document all the stages of the design and teaching process of the architect in question, from the conceptual sketch to the technical drawing approved in final screens, in the various stages of the municipal registration process, it also includes specifications and specialty records, administrative items and professional correspondence, photographic records, experimental and final models, graphic archives, travel notebooks and, in some cases, personal libraries.

The Urban Planning collections held by the arch/ves offer a privileged insight into the processes of planning, regulation and urban design, which are fundamental to understanding the country's territorial transformations. Mainly made up of drawings that include General Urbanization Plans, Preliminary Urbanization Plans, Detailed Plans and Beautification Plans, in the various stages of the registration process, it also includes administrative items and professional correspondence with the respective City Councils and Autonomous Road Boards, photographic records, experimental and final models.

Those relating to the area of Design, on the other hand, bear witness to innovative practices in furniture design, industrial art and graphic design, opening up new fronts for research into Portuguese material and visual culture.

The arch/ves also includes specially structured thematic collections, such as the “CODAs of the Lisbon School”, “The Teachers of the Lisbon School”,
“The Architects' Libraries”, as well as “The Studio Houses” - which deepen the critical reading of architectural pedagogy and the intellectual genealogy of the
FA-ULisboa, reinforcing the articulation between the Archive, Teaching and Disciplinary Practice.