José Pedro Lima (b. 1991, Coimbra) completed a Master’s degree in Architecture at the University of Coimbra in 2016. Worked with Paulo Providência (2016–2017) and Camilo Rebelo (2018–2020), and was a workshop assistant at Porto Academy between 2017 and 2019. In 2021, he led a workshop at CASA (UC) with Camilo Rebelo.

Since founding his own practice in 2020, he has been developing projects such as the refurbishment of Mário Bonito’s modernist house (DOCOMOMO-listed, Porto), the House of Arts for the Bissaya Barreto Foundation (Coimbra, 2025), and the refurbishment of Rainha Santa Isabel’s Medieval Square and Misericórdia’s Romanesque Church (Alfaiates, Guarda).

He is Visiting Professor at the University of Coimbra and a PhD candidate in the CoimbraStudio program, supported by an FCT research fellowship. His recent academic contributions include a presentation at the 1st Docomomo Portugal Congress and the lecture Memory, Place, Project (UC, 2025). He was awarded the Manuel Graça Dias National Young Architect Award 24/25 for the Garden Pavilion in Porto.