Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

‘The Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) works on a building designed by Álvaro Siza. “Porto school”, as it is internationally recognized, it’s a worldwide reference in Architecture graduation. On this institution, many awarded and published architects have studied and taught. Fernando Távora, Álvaro Siza, Nuno Portas, Alexandre Alves Costa, Domingos Tavares and Eduardo Souto Moura are some of the greatest examples of the pedagogic, scientific and artistic abilities of Porto school.’

by José Manuel Rodrigues, Director of FAUP master degree in Architecture

Clancy Moore

Clancy Moore is an architectural practice based in Dublin, Ireland. Established by Andrew Clancy and CoIm Moore in 2008 we seek to understand context in the fullest sense of the word. We enjoy how physical, historical, social, legislative and economic aspects all impinge and shape architecture, and find that it is in this abrasion that projects frequently find meaning and clarity.
We have a work method to support this based on conversation and curiosity. We seek congruencies in this conversation that allow our architecture to speak about the place it stands in, the people who use it, the techniques and people that made it, and the broader society it is a part of.
The practice designs cultural, infrastructural and residential work in Ireland and elsewhere.

David Kohn

David Kohn Architects is a London-based practice established in 2007, working internationally on arts, education and residential projects.
Excellence in design is pursued through collaborating closely with our clients, consultant teams, contractors and end users. Innovation is cultivated through office-based and academic research into carbon reduction, reuse and the cultural contexts of each project.
David Kohn Architects is currently delivering major projects for New College Oxford, developer Lendlease, and the Province of Limburg, Belgium. Past projects include the V&A Photography Centre, developer Euroboden’s new offices in Berlin, A Room for London in collaboration with artist Fiona Banner, and an award-winning restaurant at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Notable international competition wins include the new Smithfield market halls for Birmingham City and Lendlease (2020), an apartment building in Berlin for developer Euroboden (2018) and a new architecture faculty for the University of Hasselt in Belgium (2018).
David Kohn Architects has built a reputation for the quality of its design, winning World Interior of the Year, Architect of the Year, RIBA, D&AD, Design Museum Designs of the Year, New London and Condé Nast awards. The practice was nominated for the Iakov Chernikov Award recognising ‘young masters of contemporary architecture for the best architectural concepts.’

DF_DC

DF_DC is an architectural practice established in Lugano and London in 2016, founded by Dario Franchini (CH) and Diego Calderon (MX), after having met at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (CH) in 2004. Our work involves the production of buildings, places and strategies for a range of sectors, pursuing an elemental space – an architectural language that is both legible and porous, interested in the relationship between structure and tangible finish.
We work amidst engineers, geographers, developers, landscapers, and craftspeople; our buildings are large and small, mostly urban but sometimes in the mountains. We learn and exchange information from the different tectonic cultures we work or live in. We lead an undergraduate design studio at Kingston University since 2018 and have previously taught and lectured in the UK, Switzerland, Mexico and Argentina. Selected by Wallpaper* as one of 20 international practices to watch in 2020, as well as in New Architects 4, a “survey of the best emerging architects in the UK”. The practice was awarded an honourable mention at the Guadalajara Biennial 2019, the Best Architects ‘22 prize and had its first monograph published by Quart Verlag in 2021.

Diogo Aguiar Studio

Diogo Aguiar Studio is a Portuguese architecture studio that was established in Porto, in 2016.
The studio operates across the fields of Art and Architecture, designing small buildings and interiors, as well as temporary or fixed spatial installations destined for the public space, with the belief that a dual practice informs and boosts the work undertaken, as a speculative and spatial investigation. Its interests lie in the material and sensorial exploration of immersive architectural or artistic spaces, whether archetypal or ready-made, through geometric, abstract and elementary compositions, which present themselves as formal systems aware of the simultaneous experience of (a space´s) emptiness, seeking to reclaim the relevance of the shaping of space in Architecture.
With a strong geometric, volumetric and material identity, the collection of projects built by the studio is thus a synthesis of dichotomous relationships that balance the conceptual development of the projects namely: between the new and the existing; between interior and exterior; between light and shadow; between rationality and emotion; between ethereal and material; between repetition and innovation; between unified and the whole.
In recent years, the practice has been awarded several nominations for international prizes, namely: Prémis FAD 2018, BigMat Prize 2019, Europe 40 under 40 Prize, Mies van der Rohe Prize 2022, among others. Recently, Diogo Aguiar Studio was selected as one of the 25 global practices in ArchDaily´s New Practices of 2023.

Jo Taillieu

Professor at EPFL (CH), director and manager of his own office, Jo Taillieu plays many parts yet he is first and foremost an architect. After working with different international architecture firms, Jo Taillieu founded his eponyomous office in 2004, which he has been leading since. The practice evolved in 2009 to a collaboration with Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck, with whom he lead the office architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (advvt) for a decade. In 2018 advvt won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant at the 16th Biennale of Venice and was one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.
Next to the joint projects at architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, in 2019 the focus shifted back to its initial commitment, jo taillieu architecten (jta).
Knowledge of the practice, from conception to execution, is one of the strengths of the office. The genuine effort to execute a design and its realisation remains the fundamental concern. In this respect, jo taillieu architecten always strive to the ‘logic of construction’.

M-AO

José Martins graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto and has a Master degree in Architecture and Urban Culture at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
He worked with Frits van Dongen in the De Architekten Cie in Amsterdam in 2007.
In 2012 he won the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee’s Scholarship for a research project about emergent offices in Tokyo.
From 2011 to 2013 José was President of Portuguese Architectural Association in Braga.
He establishing Martins Architecture Office in 2013.
From 2016-18 he was Art Director at the Brazilian product design company called Alma.
He was guest tutor at Porto Academy in 2022 at Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto .
He regularly publishes his works and writings in Portugal and abroad.

Salottobuono

Salottobuono is an architectural office based in Milan, directed by Matteo Ghidoni.
The studio’s work ranges from urban design to architecture, from temporary installations to exhibition design. Salottobuono is also constantly engaged in research, publishing and teaching activities. Always active in the international arena, the studio is currently in charge of developing public space and landscape redevelopment projects on behalf of several Italian administrations. Salottobuono relies on the collaboration of a network of specialists for the development of all phases of the project in its structural, plant engineering, economic and site management aspects. It also collaborates with consultants on landscape and environmental sustainability issues.
Matteo Ghidoni obtained his Master Degree in architecture at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice in 2002. He was a founding partner of the research agency Multiplicity from 2002 to 2006.
Ghidoni founded the architectural office Salottobuono in 2007. Salottobuono has served as editor of the Instructions and Manuals section of Abitare magazine
(2007-10) and as creative director of Domus magazine (2011, 2012). The office has taken part in the Venice Biennale (2008, 2012, 2014), and designed the Italian Pavilion in 2010. Salottobuono published the Manual of Decolonization (2010) and Fundamental Acts (2016).
Since 2010, Ghidoni has been co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of San Rocco, an independent international publication about architecture. The editors of San Rocco were received the Icon Award in 2012 as the best emerging architecture practice. In 2012 and 2013, the magazine was awarded two grants from the Graham Foundation.

Walder Nickisch

Walder & Nikisch is a swiss based office that is well known for their enormous thoughtfulness and care for detail. They have received the sia prize for the restoration of the old school house in valendas, Graubünden Switzerland.

WOJR

In recent years, WOJR has enjoyed growing recognition, which has resulted in commissioned projects that span the United States, and extend abroad to works such as a pavilion for the 17th International Biennale Architettura in Venice, Italy. Working across the globe, WOJR has become accustomed to the challenges and rewards involved in simultaneously leveraging high-quality design culture and skilled collaborators from different corners of the world to create projects that are unique to their geographical and cultural contexts.
Geographically located in Cambridge, WOJR maintains a consistent relationship with the local academic communities in various ways; William is an Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Architecture, where he has taught for a decade, and WOJR team members are affiliated with Harvard GSD and other universities. Intellectually, WOJR has an ongoing collaboration with Collective–LOK, an architectural design group formed by Jon Lott (PARA Project), William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo (pinkcomma gallery), as well as Samara, an experimental product development team at Airbnb. WOJR also sponsors the Civitella Ranieri Prize for Architecture, a six-week residency for emerging designers.

Andrew Clancy

Andrew Clancy is Professor of Architecture in the Kingston Schaol af Art, and directs REGISTER – a research grouping which encompasses a wide range of means to engage with, research and disseminate thinking about the built environment. Key activities include its popular lecture and podcast series and also includes symposia, conferences and publications. He was Visiting Professor at the Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark in 2015; and previously led the M.Arch in Queens University Belfast. He has examined and been a guest critic in a wide range of schools including ETH (SUI); Academia di Architettura Mendrisio (SUI):
EPFL (SUI): Kaiserslautern (GER); AA (UK); Cass (UK); TU Dublin (IRU): Glasgow School of Art (UK); Dundee (UK); Aberdeen (UK). He has a PhD from RMIT and is a member of the Roval Institute of Architects of Ireland.

Clancy Moore is an architectural practice based in Dublin, Ireland.
Established by Andrew Clancy and Calm Moore in 2008 we seck to understand context in the fullest sense of the word. We enjay how physical, historical, social, legislative and economic aspects all impinge and shape architecture, and find that it is in this abrasion that projects frequently find meaning and clarity.
We have a work method to support this based on conversation and curiosity. We seek congruencies in this conversation that allow our architecture to speak about the place it stands in, the people who use it, the techniques and people that made it, and the broader society it is a part of.
The practice designs cultural, infrastructural and residential work in ireland and elsewhere.

Colm Moore

Colm Moore was educated in UCD, graduating in 2002. He established Clancy Moore Architects with Andrew in 2008. Colm Completed a PhD by Practice with RMIT in 2018. He is director of the M.Arch programme in Queens University Belfast and runs a unit there. He has been guest critic and invited lecturer in numerous schools including UdK (GER); Glasgow School of Art (UK); UCD (IRL). He is currently a senior lecturer at Oueens University Belfast where he co-ordinates the M.Arch programme.
Clancy Moore is an architectural practice based in Dublin, Ireland.
Established by Andrew Clancy and Calm Moore in 2008 we seck to understand context in the fullest sense of the word. We enjay how physical, historical, social, legislative and economic aspects all impinge and shape architecture, and find that it is in this abrasion that projects frequently find meaning and clarity.
We have a work method to support this based on conversation and curiosity. We seek congruencies in this conversation that allow our architecture to speak about the place it stands in, the people who use it, the techniques and people that made it, and the broader society it is a part of.
The practice designs cultural, infrastructural and residential work in ireland and elsewhere.

Dario Franchini

DF_DC is an architectural practice established in Lugano and London in 2016, founded by Dario Franchini (CH) and Diego Calderon (MX), after having met at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (CH) in 2004.
Our work involves the production of buildings, places and strategies for a range of sectors, pursuing an elemental space – an architectural language that is both legible and porous, interested in the relationship between structure and tangible finish. We work amidst engineers, geographers, developers, landscapers, and craftspeople; our buildings are large and small, mostly urban but sometimes in the mountains. We learn and exchange information from the different tectonic cultures we work or live in.
We lead an undergraduate design studio at Kingston University since 2018 and have previously taught and lectured in the UK, Switzerland, Mexico and Argentina. Selected by Wallpaper* as one of 20 international practices to watch in 2020, as well as in New Architects 4, a “survey of the best emerging architects in the UK”. The practice was awarded an honourable mention at the Guadalajara Biennial 2019, the Best Architects ‘22 prize and had its first monograph published by Quart Verlag in 2021.

David Kohn

David Kohn Architects is a London-based practice established in 2007, working internationally on arts, education and residential projects.
Excellence in design is pursued through collaborating closely with our clients, consultant teams, contractors and end users. Innovation is cultivated through office-based and academic research into carbon reduction, reuse and the cultural contexts of each project.
David Kohn Architects is currently delivering major projects for New College Oxford, developer Lendlease, and the Province of Limburg, Belgium. Past projects include the V&A Photography Centre, developer Euroboden’s new offices in Berlin, A Room for London in collaboration with artist Fiona Banner, and an award-winning restaurant at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Notable international competition wins include the new Smithfield market halls for Birmingham City and Lendlease (2020), an apartment building in Berlin for developer Euroboden (2018) and a new architecture faculty for the University of Hasselt in Belgium (2018).
David Kohn Architects has built a reputation for the quality of its design, winning World Interior of the Year, Architect of the Year, RIBA, D&AD, Design Museum Designs of the Year, New London and Condé Nast awards. The practice was nominated for the Iakov Chernikov Award recognising ‘young masters of contemporary architecture for the best architectural concepts.’

Diego Calderon

DF_DC is an architectural practice established in Lugano and London in 2016, founded by Dario Franchini (CH) and Diego Calderon (MX), after having met at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (CH) in 2004.
Our work involves the production of buildings, places and strategies for a range of sectors, pursuing an elemental space – an architectural language that is both legible and porous, interested in the relationship between structure and tangible finish. We work amidst engineers, geographers, developers, landscapers, and craftspeople; our buildings are large and small, mostly urban but sometimes in the mountains. We learn and exchange information from the different tectonic cultures we work or live in.
We lead an undergraduate design studio at Kingston University since 2018 and have previously taught and lectured in the UK, Switzerland, Mexico and Argentina. Selected by Wallpaper* as one of 20 international practices to watch in 2020, as well as in New Architects 4, a “survey of the best emerging architects in the UK”. The practice was awarded an honourable mention at the Guadalajara Biennial 2019, the Best Architects ‘22 prize and had its first monograph published by Quart Verlag in 2021.

Diogo Aguiar

Diogo Aguiar (Porto, 1983) is an architect (FAUP, 2008) and university professor (ISCTE-IUL 2020).
Before founding Diogo Aguiar Studio in 2016, he collaborated with several studios, including UNStudio, in Amsterdam, and co-founded former collective LIKEarchitects, in Porto (selected for Portugal’s representation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014).
Diogo Aguiar is also co-author of the Eco-Resort, in Pedras Salgadas, built in 2012, which has won the ArchDaily Building of the Year Award.
Diogo’s work has been widely published and he has won several awards in Portugal and abroad.
Since 2017, Diogo is the commissioner of Concreta, the main Portuguese Architecture and Construction fair.
In 2019, he was appointed co-curator of the Architecture Program of Bienal da Maia.
Diogo is also co-founder of the Architecture Gallery, in Porto.

Georg Nickisch

Walder & Nikisch is a swiss based office that is well known for their enormous thoughtfulness and care for detail. They have received the sia prize for the restoration of the old school house in valendas, Graubünden Switzerland.

Jo Taillieu

Jo Taillieu is a Belgian architect and professor of design at EPFL. Since 2004, he has been at the head of jo taillieu architecten.
After studying at the Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas of the KUL (Ghent, BE) and at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (Dundee, UK), Jo Taillieu worked at Maxwan architects (Rotterdam, NL) and Stéphane Beel architects (Ghent, BE). From 2001 to 2007 he was active as project director at Stéphane Beel – Xaveer De Geyter architecten (Ghent, BE). His responsibilities included the design and realisation of the university buildings for the Faculty of Economics and the main building of Ghent University. Jo Taillieu was a partner at Jo Crepain architects from 2007 to 2008.
The practice of jo taillieu architecten evolved in 2009 to a collaboration with Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck, with whom he has been leading the office architecten de vylder vinck taillieu for 10 years. In 2018 ‘advvt’ won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant at the 16th Biënnale of Venice and was one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019. Since 2019 Jo Taillieu shifted the focus to jo taillieu architecten again.
In addition to his practice as an architect, Jo Taillieu also lectured at various national and international universities including the University Ghent (BE), KUL Ghent/Brussels (BE), the Academia di Architettura di Mendrisio (IT), TU delft (NL) and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (NL). Since 2014 Jo Taillieu has been teaching at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH). In 2019 he became associate professor at EPFL. He also lectures at international institutes and conferences.

José Martins

José Martins graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto and has a Master degree in Architecture and Urban Culture at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
In 2012 he won the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee’s Scholarship for a research project about emergent offices in Tokyo.
He was assistant tutor at Porto Academy in 2013.
From 2011 to 2013 José was President of Portuguese Architectural Association in Braga.
He worked with Frits van Dongen in the De Architekten Cie in Amsterdam before establishing his own office in 2013.
He regularly publishes his works and writings in Portugal and abroad.
From 2016-18 he was Art Director at the Brazilian product design company called ALMA.

Matteo Ghidoni

Matteo Ghidoni is an architect, editor and publisher based in Milan. He obtained his Master Degree in architecture at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice in 2002.
He was a founding partner of the research agency Multiplicity from 2002 to 2006. His work with Multiplicity was exhibited at Kunstwerke in Berlin (2003), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2003), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2004) and the Beijing Biennial (2004).
Ghidoni founded the architectural office Salottobuono in 2006. Salottobuono has served as editor of the “Instructions and Manuals” section of Abitare magazine (2007-10) and as creative director of Domus magazine (2011, 2012). The office has taken part in the Venice Biennale (2008, 2012, 2014), and designed the Italian Pavilion in 2010. Salottobuono published the “Manual of Decolonization” (2010) and “Fundamental Acts” (2016). Matteo Ghidoni has been a guest professor at the Istituto Universitario d’Architettura di Venezia in the Faculty of Architecture, the Politecnico in Milan, the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotà. He has given guest lectures at several schools and institutions including the Berlage Institute, Berkeley, and Columbia University.
Among the recent projects designed and built by Ghidoni there are the winning proposal for a temporary restaurant for the 25th Biennale Interieur in Kortrjik, Belgium (2016), the pavilion for the Mèxtropoli Festival in Mexico City (2017), the e-flux pavilion for the Milano ArchWeek (2018), the new Urban Center for the city of Milan, hosted in the Triennale palazzo dell’Arte (2019) and the new addition to the Venice Casino in Ca’ Noghera (2020).
Since 2010, he has been co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of San Rocco, an independent international publication about architecture. The editors of San Rocco magazine were received the Icon Award in 2012 as the best emerging architecture practice. In 2013 the magazine also received a Grant to Organizations from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Selina Walder

Walder & Nikisch is a swiss based office that is well known for their enormous thoughtfulness and care for detail. They have received the sia prize for the restoration of the old school house in valendas, Graubünden Switzerland.

William O’Brien

William is founder and principal of WOJR: Organization for Architecture and a tenured Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Architecture, as well as one of the founding members of Collective–LOK. Since 2019, he is also the Design Director of the Samara Project at Airbnb. He is the recipient of the 2012-2013 Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome. He was awarded the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers. He has taught previously at University of California Berkeley as the Bernard Maybeck Fellow and was the LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at The Ohio State University. Before joining MIT, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught advanced theory seminars and design studios in the graduate curriculum. At MIT, O’Brien currently holds the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair and teaches design studios in the graduate and undergraduate programs. William pursued his graduate studies at Harvard GSD where he was the recipient of the Department of Architecture Faculty Design Award. He has been named a Fellow by MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and a Socrates Fellow by the Aspen Institute.

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