Born in the ’80s, Filipe Madeira graduated in architecture at the University of Coimbra (Department of Architecture-FCTUC).
Filipe worked at Figueiredo+Pena (2013-19), and with Paulo Providência (2014-). He was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra between 2021 and 2024. He has been a PhD student at FAUP since 2024.
He has been co-authoring with Vânia Saraiva projects since 2014, with experience in public and private initiative projects in several countries – Portugal, Switzerland, USA and France. They established themselves as the independent practice FMVS in 2019, in Porto.