| | (Castelo Branco, 1963) has graduated in Architecture from the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL) in 1986.
President of the Southern Regional Assembly of the Ordem Arquitectos. He was Vice President of the Direction of the same Regional Section 2005-2007 between.
Director of Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2007 and 2010.
Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, he was teacher at the Escola Técnica Superior d’ Arquitectura of the Universitat Internacional da Catalunya (ESARQ-UIC), in Barcelona; at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) and at the Escola Superior de Artes Decorativas de Lisboa (ESAD). Author/coordinator of the magazine Linha (Architecture, Design and Landscape) of the weekly newspaper Expresso. He was also author/coordinator of the two television series Tempo & Traço for SIC Notícias channel. He was a regular participant on the radio program Na Ordem do Dia on TSF.
Lecturer in several different countries such as Portugal, Spain, USA, Hungary, England,Brazil, Belgium and Italy. He took part of the jury of the Architecture Prize of São Paulo Biennial in 2003 and Europan Spain 2007.Together with Nuno Mateus he founded ARX Portugal in 1991.
In 1993, the work of ARX was shown on the Exhibition Realidade Real at CCB and took part in many others, namely Percurso/Útvonal — ARX Portugal ( Budapest, 2000), Influx 0.1 (Fundação de Serralves, 2002), Contaminantes/Comunicantes (Lisboa, 2000) and Nara Triennial (1994). Together with Centro Regional de Sangue do Porto, it took part of the exhibition Architectura e Design del Portogallo 1998-2004 of Milan Triennial.
ARX’s projects received numberless prizes, mentions and nominations, namely the International Architecture Award 2006 with the project for the Biblioteca Municipal de Ílhavo (The Chicago Athenaeum) and the Prize AICA 2003 (International Association of Art Critics) with the project for the Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo, also nominated for the Prémios SECIL 2002 and Mies van der Rohe 2002. Received also the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award 2007 to House in Martinhal and 2008 to Technology College of Barreiro. This project was also in the short list of the Enor and Fad prices 2009. Also in 2009, House in Romeirão was awarded with Mafra's Municipality Architecture Award.
Beyond projects, articles and references on specialized newsp
apers and magazines, he also published three monographs on ARX’s work: Uma Segunda Natureza (Blau, 1993), Realidade Real (CCB, 1993) and Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo (Caleidoscópio, 2004).
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