Amunt

AMUNT started in 2009 as a collaboration between Björn Martenson, Sonja Nagel and Jan Theissen in Aachen and Stuttgart.
The diverse and broad-based work consists of idiosyncratic houses, extensions and concise interior fittings, special adaptations and spatial interventions.
These buildings are created through the intensive examination of the individual needs of our clients and builders, with everything, what can be described as a context in the broadest sense and an unconditional desire to rethink every task with curiosity and joy and to plan.

Angela Deuber

Angela Deuber is a young Swiss architect, educated at ETH Zurich (2002), with the practice based in Chur. She taught at the ETH Zurich from 2007-10 and was appointed as a lecturer at Lucerne University in 2012.
Her office has produced a number of significant buildings and projects, including: 2013 – House on the Outer Hebrides (Scotland, UK), 2009 – 2013 School building in Thal, 2009 – 2012 Conversion of a late medieval House in Stuls (Graubünden).
The willful architectural character and very particular qualities of her first built works and projects aroused a considerable respect of the architectural media. Her architecture posses a strong material and tectonic identity and exhibits a clear commitment to the constructive conscience.

Baukunst

Combining art and technology, dialoguing and interplaying various forms of knowledge, BAUKUNST is committed to explore architecture as a medium with which both to think about building (BAU) and build ways of thinking (KUNST).
Studies in Architecture at ISA St-Luc Tournai, Belgium and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (diploma with Prof. E. Zenghelis in 1999). He was a design architect at Herzog & de Meuron, Basel between 2000 and 2003 and at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture – Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam until 2001. Adrien Verschuere is the co-founder of the architecture firm Made in, Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2010, he established BAUKUNST in Brussels and from 2017 in Lausanne.
Adrien Verschuere is regularly invited as guest critic or lecturer in various institutions, among others : the FAUP Porto, IRGE Universität Stuttgart, Berlage Institute Rotterdam, USI Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, Kyoto Design Lab, and ETH Zürich.
From 2019, Adrien Verschuere is Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Bruther

Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot founded Bruther in 2007 in Paris. Bruther’s work is the subject of numerous international publications – notably 2G and El Croquis – and in 2022, the Japanese magazine A+U devoted an entire issue to their work. Distinguished by several awards, they have received the Équerre d’Argent prize three times (2016, 2018 and 2020), the Dejean prize in 2018 from the Academy of Architecture and in 2020 the Swiss Architectural Award. Stéphanie Bru became a full member of the Academy of Architecture in 2021 and is also a professor at the UDK in Berlin. Alexandre Theriot is a professor at ETH Zurich. Together they are visiting professors at GSD Harvard.

Emilio Tuñón

Emilio Tuñón (Madrid, 1959) is an architect who earned his degree from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1981, and he earned his PhD from ETSAM in 2000. In 1993, together with Luis M. Mansilla and Luis Rojo, he founded the research cooperative CIRCO, awarded with the FAD Prize in 2007 and the BIAU in 2002. His work in research was recognized with the Francqui Chair in Brussels in 2015. In 1992, he cofounded Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos with Luis M. Mansilla (1959-2012), and in 2012 he cofounded Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos.

He is a professor in the Architectural Design department at ETSAM. He has taught as the Jean Labatut Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture (2008-2010) and the Eliot Noyes Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2006), and he has been a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2005) and the Frankfurt Städelschule (1997-1998).

Emilio Tuñón has been recognized with the following awards: National Award for Architecture (2022), RIBA International Fellowship (2019), Community of Madrid Award (2018), Francqui Chair (2015), Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2014), Mies van der Rohe Award (2007) and European Union Prize (2007).

Guilherme Machado Vaz

Born in Porto (Portugal) in 1974.
Graduated at ‘Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto’ (FAUP) in 1998.
Collaborator at Eduardo Souto de Moura’s office between 1996/1997.
Architect at Matosinhos Municipality since 2000. Among other works are Custóias Civic Center, Custóias Football Club, the Garden pavillion and, more recently, Casa da Arquitectura and OJM headquarters at Real Vinícola.
His office produces mainly residential projects such as the Valley House, João’s House and Afife House, among others.
In 2008 worked as Team Architect for David Chipperfield Architects, on a residencial project in ‘Bom Sucesso, Golf Resort and Spa’, Óbidos.
Teacher at ‘Universidade Lusófona do Porto’ between 2012 and 2021.
Guest teacher at Politecnico di Milano, Piacenza, in 2017.
Guest teacher at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, in 2019.
Phd in architecture at Universidade Lusófona do Porto (2020).
Professor at the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra since 2021.
Chairman of the General Meeting of the Architectural Association (2020-2022).
Lectured in several national and foreign institutions.
Jury for FAD in 2008 and Archiprix 2019.
Workshop leader at Porto Academy 2015 (FAUP) and Wa.ve 2016 (IUAV Venezia).

Harquitectes

HARQUITECTES is an architecture studio established in 2000 and based in Sabadell, Barcelona. It is managed by four partner architects: David Lorente Ibáñez (Granollers, 1972), Josep Ricart Ulldemolins (Cerdanyola del Vallès, 1973), Xavier Ros Majó (Sabadell, 1972) and Roger Tudó Galí (Terrassa, 1973). All of them licensed between 1998 and 2000 in the E.T.S.A. Vallès, where Josep and Roger teach. Xavier also teaches in the E.T.S.A. Barcelona.
Their work has received some recognitions and awards –for built works and also in ideas competitions- and it has been published in many national and international media, been selected for several exhibitions and invited as lecturers in many events in Europe and America.

Johannes Norlander

Johannes Norlander (1974, Sweden) studied architecture at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. While in Stockholm Johannes also studied graphic
design at the Konstfack College of arts, crafts and design – an experience that informed the direction of his work, which has been called naive post-minimalism.
Johannes’ first produced design – the L-series storage unit – was created in 2001 for Asplund, and has been followed by pieces for Nola, Collex and HAY. He has received particular attention for the chair Kyparn (2003) for Nola and the shelving system Cano (2008) for HAY. He received the Bruno Mathson design prize in 2005.
Johannes first architectural work was in interior design and in a number of collaborative architecture projects in Italy and Switzerland. In 2004, Johannes established his own practice; Johannes Norlander
Arkitektur. With the houses Alta (2008), Tumle (2009) and Morran (2010), he developed pared-down forms relating to Nordic climate and modernist tradition.
For the past few years, the practice has approached larger scales – with apartment buildings for Oscar Properties and HSB currently under construction. Scaling up is not a priority in itself, however, and the focus
of the practice is exploration, and an intuitive work process.
Last year, Johannes participated in the AE foundations’ project Blackhouse with House with Columns, and in the Lausanne Jardin project with Lausanne Landing No 4.

João Paulo Loureiro

João Paulo Loureiro (City of Porto, Portugal, 1970) Architect at the School of Architecture of the University of Porto (1988/1994).
During the years of 1993 until 2001 works with Alcino Soutinho.
Winner of the competition for the Ramalde, Porto Market, co-authored with Nuno Brandão Costa.
Establishes his own office in 2006 (headquartered in Matosinhos) called JPLoureiro, Architect, Inc.
His work is present at the national exhibition Habitar Portugal 2006/08, 2nd Prize at the Iberian “Menhir” Award, honorable mention award PAUMA 2007 and had his work selected to the FAD awards 2014.
The work of JPL reflects an interest of a wide range of architectural types and scales: housing (from singular housing until housing complexes), equipments (such as students’ residences, hostels, thermal baths …) building restoration and renovation, urban plans, contests.
Participates in several conferences, expositions and publications.
Directors’ Board Member of the Portuguese Professional Architects Association (North),between 2005 and 2010.
Since 2013 is an invited Assistant Professor of “Project IV” at the School of Architecture of the Oporto University (FAUP).

Menos é Mais

Menos é Mais Arquitectos is an office created in Porto by Cristina Guedes (Macau) and Francisco Vieira de Campos (Porto) in 1994. The ability to do more and better with less is our motto, seek to balance the “economy” of means with the “richness” in the materiality and emotional involvement of the users. Our works are a pragmatic response to specific contexts. These principles are visible from the first works to the Recovery Project of Quinta do Vallado, in the Douro Valley; in the Cable Car complex in the Historic Site of Gaia and in Archipelago – Centro de Artes Contemporânea, on the island of São Miguel in Azores (these two were exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2016 “Reporting from the front” and 2018 “Public Without Rhetoric”).
CG teaches at FAUP, FAAULP and USI – Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (2018-2022).
FVC teaches at FAUP and Navarra University, in Pamplona (2019).
They were invited to national and international conferences, juries, exhibitions and critics in various faculties as ETH Zurich, TU Wien, Lausanne Polytechnic, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Trinity College Dublin, among others.
More recently, Menos é Mais won the Secil Architecture Prize in 2020 (Lisbon), the AIT Prize in 2020 (Frankfurt), the National Wood Architecture Prize in 2020 (Alcobaça), the BIGMAT’17 International Architecture Restoration Prize (Luxembourg), the FAD Prize in 2016 (Barcelona), and the BIAU Architecture Prize in 2016 (São Paulo), 2012 (Cádiz) and 2006 (Montevideo).
Menos é Mais was also nominated for the Mïes van der Rohe Prize in 2019, 2015, 2013 and 2009 (Barcelona).
CG and FVC were awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects becoming International RIBA Fellows.

Pezo Von Ellrichshausen

Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepcion, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Mauricio Pezo completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica de Chile (Santiago, 1998) and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio (Concepcion, 1999). He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association (Santiago, 2006) and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall (Concepcion, 2013). Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2002) where she was distinguished with the FADU-UBA Honors Diploma.
Pezo and von Ellrichshausen have been the curators of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale.
They teach regularly in Chile and have been Visiting Professors at The University of Texas (Austin, 2011-2014) and at Cornell University (New York, 2009).
Their work has been distinguished with the MCHAP Emerge Prize by the IIT (Chicago, 2014), the Rice Design Alliance Prize (Houston, 2012), the V Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (Montevideo, 2006) and the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial Award (Santiago, 2006). The work of the studio has been edited in monographic issues of A+U (Tokyo, 2013), 2G (Barcelona, 2012) and ARQ (Santiago, 2007) and exhibited at the International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2010), at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2014) and as part of the Permanent Architecture Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York, 2014-).

Productora

PRODUCTORA is a Mexico City based architectural studio founded by Abel Perles (1972, Argentina), Carlos Bedoya (1973, Mexico), Victor Jaime (1978, Mexico) and Wonne Ickx (1974, Belgium). PRODUCTORA´s work is distinguished by an interest in precise geometries, the production of clearly legible projects with limited gestures and the search for timeless buildings in their material and spatial resolutions.
The office is working on projects in Mexico and abroad, ranging from residential projects to public buildings. Its work has been presented in the Architectural Biennials of Beijing (2006), Venice (2008, 2012, 2018) and Chicago (2015, 2017), in the National Art Museum of China (Beijing) and in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (UK). PRODUCTORA has been awarded by the Architectural League of New York with the Young Architects Forum (2007) and the Emerging Voices (2013). In 2016 they received the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for emerging architects for the ‘Pavilion on the Zocalo’ at the IIT in Chicago. The Teopanzolco Cultural Center, received the American Architecture Prize in Cultural Architecture (2017), Oscar Niemeyer Award 2018, and the First International Prize at the Biennial of Architecture of Quito 2018.
That same project also recently received the Simon Architecture Prize 2018 Living Places in Barcelona, a recognition curated in collaboration with the Fundacio Mies van de Rohe that celebrates collective places in which public and community life develops. Amongst the many publications of the office, their first monograph by Arquine (2010) and the Monograph by Architecture Magazine 2G (2014) stand out.
PRODUCTORA has been actively involved in teaching both in local Universities such as the Universidad Iberoamericana, Centro de Diseño, TEC de Monterrey and Universidad La Salle in Mexico City as well as abroad. The partners of PRODUCTORA have been teaching studios at UCLA (Los Angeles), IIT (Chicago), Harvard GSD (Cambridge), Princeton University (NJ),

Ricardo Bak Gordon

Ricardo Bak Gordon was born in Lisbon in 1967. He graduated in 1990 at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. During his studies he also attended Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto and Politecnico di Milano.
He is currently a visiting professor in the Integrated Master Degree (MSc) in Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon. He has also lectured and/or attended as visiting professor at several universities and institutions such as the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Universidade Lusíada, the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca, Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Politecnico di Milano, Universitá Cá Foscari, Venice, Universitá degli Studi di Sassari, Academmia di Architettura di Mendrizio, Hochschule Luzern, Universität Liechtenstein, Trinity College, Dublin, Universidade de Brasília, Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, the Ozone Foundation in Tokyo, the Universitá IUAV di Venezia and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona.
His activity as an architect has been developed since 1990, and in the year 2002 he created the studio Bak Gordon Arquitectos, where currently works.
He was the author of the Portugal Pavilion in ExpoZaragoza 2008, of the Portugal Pavilion in São Paulo Biennial 2007 and of the exhibition project in the first edition of Lisbon International Architecture Trienal 2007.
His work as an architect was presented in different exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Macau, South Korea and Japan; and published on prestigious editions of the specialty.
He was a nominee for the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2009 and 2011; winner of the FAD Prize 2011 (Barcelona, Spain) and BIAU Prize 2012 (Cádiz, Spain). He was one of Portugal’s representatives at the Venice Biennale in 2010 and 2012

Sami Arquitectos

Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira established their practice, SAMI-arquitectos, in 2005 and gained an international reputation for their first work, the Gruta das Torres Visitor Centre on the island of Pico in the Azores.
The firm’s experience in designing and building its first building in natural surroundings went on to influence its approach to architectural practice, which seeks to intervene in a sensitive and conscientious way in the building’s setting, in the belief that each building is specific to each place.
In each design project there is a set of premises the firm seeks to address, and only when it has found the answer to all concerns is the coherence of the whole creative process ensured. SAMI-arquitectos sets out to design formally clarified spaces and environments, allying the conceptual aspect with a component that is of equal importance to their work: that of technical sophistication and meticulousness in construction. The firm’s input is reflected in all phases of the project, from the concept to the realization, i.e. the construction work.
To this end, involvement with the client, the special engineering teams and the end users is essential for informing the design and giving it the desired quality and coherence. The firm has designed and built public buildings, single-family homes and small-scale tourist projects for public and private clients.
SAMI-arquitectos strive for a sense of integration, permanence and beauty in their work, which they carry out with coherence and continuity, seeking an understanding of the world through architecture.

Solano Benitez

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the National University of Asunción in 1986; he was awarded the national prize for architecture 1989-1999 by the college of Paraguayan architects; he reached the finals of the second “premio Mies van der Rohe de arquitectura latinoamericana”; he represented Paraguay at the Biennali in Venice, São Paolo and Lisbon, the capital of Ibero-American culture.
He has been invited to speak at the following universities: in Argentina, at the National Universities of Rosario, Mar del Plata, Santa Fe, Oberà, La Plata, Tucuman, Resistencia and Buenos Aires; at the Catholic Universities of Cordoba and Posadas, Torcuato University in Tella and Palermo University in Buenos Aires; in Brazil, in San Pãolo, at the Mackenzie University, the Escola da Cidade, the Federal University of São Carlos, Umuarama and Belo Horizonte; in Chile, at the Catholic University of Santiago, the Andrés Bello National University and the University Diego Portales; in Ecuador, at the Catholic University of Quito; in Panama, at the Isthmus School of Architecture; in Peru, at the Ricardo Palma University and at the Catholic University in Lima; in Spain, at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid; in the United States, at Arizona State University, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco University and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
He founded the “Gabinete de Arquitectura”, a professional architectural studio, which he currently shares with his partners Alberto Marinoni and Gloria Cabral.
His recent works include: leisure facilities in Ytú (Paraguay), 1997-1998 (this work reached the finals of the second Mies van der Rohe Latin-American architecture prize”); a tomb in Priribebuy (Paraguay), 2000-2001; the Unilever office in Villa Elisa (Paraguay), 2000-2001; Casa Esmeraldina, Asunción (Paraguay), 2002; Casa Fanego, Asunción (Paraguay), 2003 (with Sergio Fanego); Casa Abu & Font, Asunción (Paraguay), 2005-2006; Casa Las A

Adrien Verschuere

Studies in Architecture at ISA St-Luc Tournai, Belgium and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (diploma with Prof. E. Zenghelis in 1999). He was a design architect at Herzog & de Meuron, Basel between 2000 and 2003 and at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture – Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam until 2001. Adrien Verschuere is the co-founder of the architecture firm Made in, Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2010, he established BAUKUNST in Brussels and from 2017 in Lausanne.
Adrien Verschuere is regularly invited as guest critic or lecturer in various institutions, among others : the FAUP Porto, IRGE Universität Stuttgart, Berlage Institute Rotterdam, USI Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, Kyoto Design Lab, and ETH Zürich.
From 2019, Adrien Verschuere is Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Alexandre Theriot

Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot founded Bruther in 2007 in Paris. Bruther’s work is the subject of numerous international publications – notably 2G and El Croquis – and in 2022, the Japanese magazine A+U devoted an entire issue to their work. Distinguished by several awards, they have received the Équerre d’Argent prize three times (2016, 2018 and 2020), the Dejean prize in 2018 from the Academy of Architecture and in 2020 the Swiss Architectural Award. Stéphanie Bru became a full member of the Academy of Architecture in 2021 and is also a professor at the UDK in Berlin. Alexandre Theriot is a professor at ETH Zurich. Together they are visiting professors at GSD Harvard.

Angela Deuber

Angela Deuber is a young Swiss architect, educated at ETH Zurich (2002), with the practice based in Chur. She taught at the ETH Zurich from 2007-10 and was appointed as a lecturer at Lucerne University in 2012.
Her office has produced a number of significant buildings and projects, including: 2013 – House on the Outer Hebrides (Scotland, UK), 2009 – 2013 School building in Thal, 2009 – 2012 Conversion of a late medieval House in Stuls (Graubünden).
The willful architectural character and very particular qualities of her first built works and projects aroused a considerable respect of the architectural media. Her architecture posses a strong material and tectonic identity and exhibits a clear commitment to the constructive conscience.

Björn Martenson

AMUNT started in 2009 as a collaboration between Björn Martenson, Sonja Nagel and Jan Theissen in Aachen and Stuttgart.
The diverse and wide-ranging work consists of idiosyncratic houses, extensions and striking interior fittings, special adaptations and spatial interventions.
These buildings are the result of an intensive examination of the individual needs of our clients and clients, with everything that can be described as context in the broadest sense and an unconditional desire to rethink and plan every task with curiosity and joy.

Cristina Guedes

Menos é Mais Arquitectos is the office created in Oporto in 1994 by Francisco Vieira de Campos and Cristina Guedes.
They both teach, CG (FAULP) and FVC (FAUP), and have been invited for the final critics at Mendrisio Architecture Academy, ETH Zurich and several portuguese and spanish universities. They have been invited for international lectures, workshops and seminars. Cristina Guedes acted as Commissary of Portugal at the IX BIAU New geographies.
Their main works are programmatic responses related to specific contexts: Quinta do Vallado Winnery and Hotel, Gaia Cablecar, ReOrdering of the Public Spaces of Social Housing Blocks in Oporto and Archipelago Contemporary Art Centre in Azores.
Published in Portugal and abroad, their work has been distinguished with various awards such as the VIII BIAU award with the Gaia Cablecar and received several nominations such as finalist of Premis FAD, shortlist of the Mies van Der Rohe Award, Architecture Award in the V and VI BIAU, shortlist at Secil Award. They also took part in national and international exhibits.

Emilio Tuñón

Emilio Tuñón, Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts from the Spanish Ministry of Culture 2014, is full professor in the architectural design department of the Architecture School of Madrid, and has been visiting professor at several universities: Princeton University School of Architecture (2008, 2009, 2010), Harvard Graduate School of Design (2006), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2005), Barcelona International Architecture School (2001-2002), Frankfurt Städelschule (1997-1998), Architecture San Pablo CEU Fundation (2000-2001), Barcelona Architecture School (1999-2000), New Puerto Rico Architecture School (2000) and Navarra Architecture School (1999, 2011).
In 1992, Emilio Tuñón Alvarez (1959) and Luis M. Mansilla (1959-2012) established the architecture firm Emilio Tuñón and Luis M. Mansilla Arquitectos, a Madrid based office, dedicated to the confrontation of theory, and academic practice, with design and building activity. They have received the Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 and the Spanish Architecture Award 2003.
In 1993 they created the thought exchange cooperative CIRCO, for which they publish a bulletin of the same name. This bulletin has been awarded the following awards: FAD Award (2007), 3rd. Iberoamerican Architecture and Engineering Biennial Publication Prize (2002) and COAM Annual Prize for Cultural Initiatives Award (1995).
Mansilla + Tuñón have won the following architecture competitions: Gastropavilion at ETH Zurich (2014), Two Residential Towers in Dubai (2013), Wine Museum in Valladolid (2012), International Center of Visigothic Culture in Toledo(2010), Energy Dome in the Enviromental City in Soria (2008), C.I.C.C.M. International congress Center of Madrid (2007), Museum of Migrations in Algeciras (2007), Helga de Alvear Foundation (2005), Urban planning for Valbuena in Logroño (2004), Public Library in Calle de los Artistas in Madrid(2003), Museum of Cantabria (2002), Spanish Royal Collections Museum in Madrid (2002), San Fermines Museum in Pamplona (2001), Cultural Center in Brescia (2000), Castellón Fine Arts Museum (1998), Leon’s Concert Hall (1996), Madrid’s Regional Cultural Center (1995).
Mansilla + Tuñón built projects include: Hotel and Restaurant Atrio in Caceres (2012), Town Hall Building in Lalin (2011), Helga de Alvear Foundation in Cáceres (2010), Twin houses in Tarifa (2009), Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation in Vigo (2005), MUSAC the Museum of Contemporary Art in Castilla León (2004), Auditorium of León (2003), Regional Documentary Center of Madrid (2002), Castellón Fine Arts Museum (2000), Indoor Swiming-Pool in San Fernando de Henares (1998) and Archeological and Fine Arts Provintial Museum of Zamora (1996).
Their work has been awarded the following prizes: Francqui Chair (2015), Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2014), Big Mat Award (2013), Award of the ibero-american Biennial 2012, FAD Award 2011, A PLUS AWARD 2011, AD Architectural Digest Award (2009), Mies van der Rohe Award (2007), FAD award (2007), Saloni Award (2007), VIA award (2006), Spanish Architecture Award (2003), FAD Award (2001), COACV Award (2000), Excellent Work Award (2000), Fundation Award (1997), Arquitecti Award (1996).

Francisco Vieira de Campos

Menos é Mais Arquitectos is the office created in Oporto in 1994 by Francisco Vieira de Campos and Cristina Guedes.
They both teach, CG (FAULP) and FVC (FAUP), and have been invited for the final critics at Mendrisio Architecture Academy, ETH Zurich and several portuguese and spanish universities. They have been invited for international lectures, workshops and seminars. Cristina Guedes acted as Commissary of Portugal at the IX BIAU New geographies.
Their main works are programmatic responses related to specific contexts: Quinta do Vallado Winnery and Hotel, Gaia Cablecar, ReOrdering of the Public Spaces of Social Housing Blocks in Oporto and Archipelago Contemporary Art Centre in Azores.
Published in Portugal and abroad, their work has been distinguished with various awards such as the VIII BIAU award with the Gaia Cablecar and received several nominations such as finalist of Premis FAD, shortlist of the Mies van Der Rohe Award, Architecture Award in the V and VI BIAU, shortlist at Secil Award. They also took part in national and international exhibits.

Guilherme Machado Vaz

Born in Porto (Portugal) in 1974.
Graduated at ‘Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto’ (FAUP) in 1998.
Collaborator at Eduardo Souto de Moura’s office between 1996/1997.
Architect at Matosinhos Municipality since 2000. Among other works are Custóias Civic Center, Custóias Football Club, the Garden pavillion and, more recently, Casa da Arquitectura and OJM headquarters at Real Vinícola.
His office produces mainly residential projects such as the Valley House, João’s House and Afife House, among others.
In 2008 worked as Team Architect for David Chipperfield Architects, on a residencial project in ‘Bom Sucesso, Golf Resort and Spa’, Óbidos.
Teacher at ‘Universidade Lusófona do Porto’ between 2012 and 2021.
Guest teacher at Politecnico di Milano, Piacenza, in 2017.
Guest teacher at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, in 2019.
Phd in architecture at Universidade Lusófona do Porto (2020).
Professor at the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra since 2021.
Chairman of the General Meeting of the Architectural Association (2020-2022).
Lectured in several national and foreign institutions.
Jury for FAD in 2008 and Archiprix 2019.
Workshop leader at Porto Academy 2015 (FAUP) and Wa.ve 2016 (IUAV Venezia).

Inês Vieira da Silva

Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira established their practice, SAMI-arquitectos, in 2005 and gained an international reputation for their first work, the Gruta das Torres Visitor Centre on the island of Pico in the Azores.
The firm’s experience in designing and building its first building in natural surroundings went on to influence its approach to architectural practice, which seeks to intervene in a sensitive and conscientious way in the building’s setting, in the belief that each building is specific to each place.
In each design project there is a set of premises the firm seeks to address, and only when it has found the answer to all concerns is the coherence of the whole creative process ensured. SAMI-arquitectos sets out to design formally clarified spaces and environments, allying the conceptual aspect with a component that is of equal importance to their work: that of technical sophistication and meticulousness in construction. The firm’s input is reflected in all phases of the project, from the concept to the realization, i.e. the construction work.
To this end, involvement with the client, the special engineering teams and the end users is essential for informing the design and giving it the desired quality and coherence. The firm has designed and built public buildings, single-family homes and small-scale tourist projects for public and private clients.
SAMI-arquitectos strive for a sense of integration, permanence and beauty in their work, which they carry out with coherence and continuity, seeking an understanding of the world through architecture.

Jan Theissen

AMUNT started in 2009 as a collaboration between Björn Martenson, Sonja Nagel and Jan Theissen in Aachen and Stuttgart.
The diverse and wide-ranging work consists of idiosyncratic houses, extensions and striking interior fittings, special adaptations and spatial interventions.
These buildings are the result of an intensive examination of the individual needs of our clients and clients, with everything that can be described as context in the broadest sense and an unconditional desire to rethink and plan every task with curiosity and joy.

Johannes Norlander

Johannes Norlander (1974, Sweden) studied architecture at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. While in Stockholm Johannes also studied graphic
design at the Konstfack College of arts, crafts and design – an experience that informed the direction of his work, which has been called naive post-minimalism.
Johannes’ first produced design – the L-series storage unit – was created in 2001 for Asplund, and has been followed by pieces for Nola, Collex and HAY. He has received particular attention for the chair Kyparn (2003) for Nola and the shelving system Cano (2008) for HAY. He received the Bruno Mathson design prize in 2005.
Johannes first architectural work was in interior design and in a number of collaborative architecture projects in Italy and Switzerland. In 2004, Johannes established his own practice; Johannes Norlander
Arkitektur. With the houses Alta (2008), Tumle (2009) and Morran (2010), he developed pared-down forms relating to Nordic climate and modernist tradition.
For the past few years, the practice has approached larger scales – with apartment buildings for Oscar Properties and HSB currently under construction. Scaling up is not a priority in itself, however, and the focus
of the practice is exploration, and an intuitive work process.
Last year, Johannes participated in the AE foundations’ project Blackhouse with House with Columns, and in the Lausanne Jardin project with Lausanne Landing No 4.

João Paulo Loureiro

João Paulo Loureiro (City of Porto, Portugal, 1970) Architect at the School of Architecture of the University of Porto (1988/1994).
During the years of 1993 until 2001 works with Alcino Soutinho.
Winner of the competition for the Ramalde, Porto Market, co-authored with Nuno Brandão Costa.
Establishes his own office in 2006 (headquartered in Matosinhos) called JPLoureiro, Architect, Inc.
His work is present at the national exhibition Habitar Portugal 2006/08,
2nd Prize at the Iberian “Menhir” Award, honorable mention award PAUMA 2007 and had his work selected to the FAD awards 2014.
The work of JPL reflects an interest of a wide range of architectural types and scales: housing (from singular housing until housing complexes), equipments (such as students’ residences, hostels, thermal baths …) building restoration and renovation, urban plans, contests.
Participates in several conferences, expositions and publications.
Directors’ Board Member of the Portuguese Professional Architects Association (North),between 2005 and 2010.
Since 2013 is an invited Assistant Professor of “Project IV” at the School of Architecture of the Oporto University (FAUP).

Mauricio Pezo

Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepcion, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Mauricio Pezo completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica de Chile (Santiago, 1998) and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio (Concepcion, 1999). He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association (Santiago, 2006) and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall (Concepcion, 2013). Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2002) where she was distinguished with the FADU-UBA Honors Diploma. Pezo and von Ellrichshausen have been the curators of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. They teach regularly in Chile and have been Visiting Professors at The University of Texas (Austin, 2011-2014) and at Cornell University (New York, 2009). Their work has been distinguished with the MCHAP Emerge Prize by the IIT (Chicago, 2014), the Rice Design Alliance Prize (Houston, 2012), the V Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (Montevideo, 2006) and the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial Award (Santiago, 2006). The work of the studio has been edited in monographic issues of A+U (Tokyo, 2013), 2G (Barcelona, 2012) and ARQ (Santiago, 2007) and exhibited at the International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2010), at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2014) and as part of the Permanent Architecture Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York, 2014-).

Miguel Vieira

Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira established their practice, SAMI-arquitectos, in 2005 and gained an international reputation for their first work, the Gruta das Torres Visitor Centre on the island of Pico in the Azores.
The firm’s experience in designing and building its first building in natural surroundings went on to influence its approach to architectural practice, which seeks to intervene in a sensitive and conscientious way in the building’s setting, in the belief that each building is specific to each place.
In each design project there is a set of premises the firm seeks to address, and only when it has found the answer to all concerns is the coherence of the whole creative process ensured. SAMI-arquitectos sets out to design formally clarified spaces and environments, allying the conceptual aspect with a component that is of equal importance to their work: that of technical sophistication and meticulousness in construction. The firm’s input is reflected in all phases of the project, from the concept to the realization, i.e. the construction work.
To this end, involvement with the client, the special engineering teams and the end users is essential for informing the design and giving it the desired quality and coherence. The firm has designed and built public buildings, single-family homes and small-scale tourist projects for public and private clients.
SAMI-arquitectos strive for a sense of integration, permanence and beauty in their work, which they carry out with coherence and continuity, seeking an understanding of the world through architecture.

Ricardo Bak Gordon

Ricardo Bak Gordon was born in Lisbon in 1967. He graduated in 1990 at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. During his studies he also attended Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto and Politecnico di Milano.
He is currently a visiting professor in the Integrated Master Degree (MSc) in Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon. He has also lectured and/or attended as visiting professor at several universities and institutions such as the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Universidade Lusíada, the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca, Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Politecnico di Milano, Universitá Cá Foscari, Venice, Universitá degli Studi di Sassari, Academmia di Architettura di Mendrizio, Hochschule Luzern, Universität Liechtenstein, Trinity College, Dublin, Universidade de Brasília, Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, the Ozone Foundation in Tokyo, the Universitá IUAV di Venezia and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona.
His activity as an architect has been developed since 1990, and in the year 2002 he created the studio Bak Gordon Arquitectos, where currently works.
He was the author of the Portugal Pavilion in ExpoZaragoza 2008, of the Portugal Pavilion in São Paulo Biennial 2007 and of the exhibition project in the first edition of Lisbon International Architecture Trienal 2007.
His work as an architect was presented in different exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Macau, South Korea and Japan; and published on prestigious editions of the specialty.
He was a nominee for the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2009 and 2011; winner of the FAD Prize 2011 (Barcelona, Spain) and BIAU Prize 2012 (Cádiz, Spain). He was one of Portugal’s representatives at the Venice Biennale in 2010 and 2012

Sofia von Ellrichshausen

Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepcion, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Mauricio Pezo completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica de Chile (Santiago, 1998) and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio (Concepcion, 1999). He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association (Santiago, 2006) and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall (Concepcion, 2013). Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2002) where she was distinguished with the FADU-UBA Honors Diploma. Pezo and von Ellrichshausen have been the curators of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. They teach regularly in Chile and have been Visiting Professors at The University of Texas (Austin, 2011-2014) and at Cornell University (New York, 2009). Their work has been distinguished with the MCHAP Emerge Prize by the IIT (Chicago, 2014), the Rice Design Alliance Prize (Houston, 2012), the V Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (Montevideo, 2006) and the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial Award (Santiago, 2006). The work of the studio has been edited in monographic issues of A+U (Tokyo, 2013), 2G (Barcelona, 2012) and ARQ (Santiago, 2007) and exhibited at the International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2010), at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2014) and as part of the Permanent Architecture Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York, 2014-).

Solano Benitez

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the National University of Asunción in 1986; he was awarded the national prize for architecture 1989-1999 by the college of Paraguayan architects; he reached the finals of the second “premio Mies van der Rohe de arquitectura latinoamericana”; he represented Paraguay at the Biennali in Venice, São Paolo and Lisbon, the capital of Ibero-American culture.
He has been invited to speak at the following universities: in Argentina, at the National Universities of Rosario, Mar del Plata, Santa Fe, Oberà, La Plata, Tucuman, Resistencia and Buenos Aires; at the Catholic Universities of Cordoba and Posadas, Torcuato University in Tella and Palermo University in Buenos Aires; in Brazil, in San Pãolo, at the Mackenzie University, the Escola da Cidade, the Federal University of São Carlos, Umuarama and Belo Horizonte; in Chile, at the Catholic University of Santiago, the Andrés Bello National University and the University Diego Portales; in Ecuador, at the Catholic University of Quito; in Panama, at the Isthmus School of Architecture; in Peru, at the Ricardo Palma University and at the Catholic University in Lima; in Spain, at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid; in the United States, at Arizona State University, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco University and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
He founded the “Gabinete de Arquitectura”, a professional architectural studio, which he currently shares with his partners Alberto Marinoni and Gloria Cabral.
His recent works include: leisure facilities in Ytú (Paraguay), 1997-1998 (this work reached the finals of the second Mies van der Rohe Latin-American architecture prize”); a tomb in Priribebuy (Paraguay), 2000-2001; the Unilever office in Villa Elisa (Paraguay), 2000-2001; Casa Esmeraldina, Asunción (Paraguay), 2002; Casa Fanego, Asunción (Paraguay), 2003 (with Sergio Fanego); Casa Abu & Font, Asunción (Paraguay), 2005-2006; Casa Las Anitas, San Pedro (Paraguay) 2007-2008; Alambra building, San Lorenzo (Paraguay).

Sonja Nagel

AMUNT started in 2009 as a collaboration between Björn Martenson, Sonja Nagel and Jan Theissen in Aachen and Stuttgart.
The diverse and wide-ranging work consists of idiosyncratic houses, extensions and striking interior fittings, special adaptations and spatial interventions.
These buildings are the result of an intensive examination of the individual needs of our clients and clients, with everything that can be described as context in the broadest sense and an unconditional desire to rethink and plan every task with curiosity and joy.

Wonne Ickx

Wonne Ickx (1974) studied civil engineering and architecture at the University of Ghent, Belgium and the ETSAM in Madrid, Spain. He continued his studies with a Masters degree in Urban Studies form the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEMET) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
He worked several years as a project director at Neutelings Riedijk in Rotterdam. In 2006 he established PRODUCTORA in Mexico City, together with Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya and Victor Jaime. PRODUCTORA has received numerous national and international prizes and recognitions. Amonst others the studio has been awarded by the Architectural League of New York with the Young Architects Forum in 2007 and the Emerging Voices in 2013.
Wonne Ickx has been teaching architecture and urbanism at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad La Salle and Centro de Diseño in Mexico City and is currently teaching at UCLA, Los Angeles.
He is co-founding director of LIGA, Space for Architecture, Mexico City, an independent platform that since 2011 stimulates interchange of ideas and investigation on contemporary Latin American architecture in Mexico City.

Xavier Ros Majó

Xavier Ros Majó was born in 1972 in Sabadell (Barcelona), architect for ETSA Vallès in 1998. Professor for Architecture Projects in ETSA Barcelona since 2010 and Guest Professor in ESARQ-UIC (International University of Catalonia, Barcelona). On 2010 creates the blog arquitectures234.blogspot.com
With David Lorente, Josep Ricart and Roger Tudó on 2000 he founded HARQUITECTES.
Their works have received many awards for built projects and also in architectural ideas competitions and it have been published in national and international Medias. They’ve invited to give lectures nationally and abroad.

António do Fundo Ferreira

António do Fundo Ferreira founded Adoff, Arquitectos in 2011. A graduate in Architecture from the Universidade Lusíada do Porto (2006), his studies included an Erasmus exchange at the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Faculty of Architecture, Italy. Early professional experience was gained at Menos é Mais Arquitectos Associados in Porto, collaborating with Cristina Guedes and Francisco Vieira de Campos (2006/2007).

Further academic training includes a Postgraduate degree in Architecture and Sustainable Living at ESAD – Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Matosinhos (2010/2011) and a Postgraduate degree in Advanced Studies in Architectural Design (EAPA) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (FAUP), directed by Pritzker Prize laureate Eduardo Souto Moura (2014/2015). In 2016, studies continued with the first year of the Doctoral Program in Architecture (PDA) at FAUP.

Antonio’s work has been recognized both nationally and internationally. Participation in the exhibition “Time – Space – Existence” (Global Art Affairs, 15th Venice Architecture Biennale) marked an early milestone. Awards include an Honorable Mention in the Concreta Under 40 Award (2019) for Apartment 6th Right in the Costa Cabral Block by Viana de Lima; the Young Architects Award (2022) for the rehabilitation project Quinta Vale do Conde in Mirandela; and the João Álvaro Rocha Municipal Architecture Award (2024) for the rehabilitation of Casa TT in Maia, organized by the João Álvaro Rocha Pro-Architecture Association and the Maia City Council.

David Ottosson

David Palussière

Elena Aleksandrov

Elena holds a Masters in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano University. After working for architects in Italy and Portugal, Elena joined Jonathan Tuckey Design Studio in 2017. She has a passion for remodelling existing buildings in historical contexts and a keen interest in the interpretation of vernaculars in modern architecture.

Francisca Marques

Gisela Lameira

Gisela Lameira is an architect and an Assistant Researcher of the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU), Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto (FAUP). She teaches on the Doctoral Programme in Architecture (PDA/FAUP) and is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Integrated Master’s in Architecture (MIARQ/ FAUP). Her PhD in Architecture (FAUP, 2017) focused on multi-family housing models in Portugal.

João Paupério

João Paupério (Valongo, 1992) studied architecture at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) and co-founded atelier local (Valongo, 2019), together with Maria Rebelo. He has previously worked as an architect for Baukunst, in Brussels, and is currently a researcher and PhD candidate at CEAU-FAUP. With atelier local, he has mostly designed and written in and about the periphery, with very little means and a particular interest in the intersection of architecture, economy, ecology, and politics. In 2017-18, he was a teaching assistant to Prof. Adrien Verschuere, at UC Louvain (LOCI Tournai). He co-edited the book “Ceci n’est pas un Portrait” (Circo de Ideias, 2024) and co-authored the book “After five years of living” (exemplo books, 2024). In 2023, the issue of AMAG PT #04 was dedicated to the first works of atelier local, which have also been recognized in several national and international awards, such as Prémios Forma (winner, 2024), the Arquia Foundation Awards (finalist, 2024) or the Lisbon Triennale Début Award (shortlisted, 2025).

João Salsa

Leonardo Remuzzi

Leonardo holds a Master in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano. After working for architects in Italy and Portugal, Leo joined Sandy Rendel Architects in 2017. Since joining SRA he has been responsible for a number of projects including a new build house in Sussex, a wholesale renovation in South London and the Tower at Sussex Prairies.

Luís Sousa

Luísa Souto Moura

Madalena Vidigal

Madalena Vidigal is an architect (FAUP, 2016) and independent researcher based in Portugal. Exploring legacy, communality and sufficiency through collaborative projects, exhibitions and ecological building. Her projects include the revitalisation of Porto Santo School, awarded an Honorable Mention at the Madeira Architecture Prize (2022), and the curatorial research on the legacy of Raul Chorão Ramalho, Rui Goes Ferreira and Suzanne Daveau. Currently she is curating the exhibition Raw Earth, opening at MAC/CCB in 2026.

Margarida Quintã

Margarida Quintã (Porto, 1981) holds a degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (2007), and a doctorate with Distinction and Honors from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2019).
Margarida’s doctoral thesis, Modern Schools in Angola, 1961–1975: Design with Climate and Heritage, examines the climatic performance of Angolan architecture during the last years of Portuguese colonial rule. Through a detailed critical analysis of the passive systems of environmental control developed for the most intrinsically tropical of modern architectures, Margarida’s work demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between the problematics of climate responsiveness and environmental comfort.

Maria Rebelo

Maria Rebelo (Porto, 1991) studied architecture at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) and co-founded atelier local (Valongo, 2019), together with João Paupério. She has previously worked as an architect for Baukunst, in Brussels, and Atelier da Bouça – Filipa Guerreiro e Tiago Correia, arquitectos, in Porto. With atelier local, she has mostly designed and written in and about the periphery, with very little means and a particular interest in the intersection of architecture, economy, ecology, and politics. She co-edited the book “Ceci n’est pas un Portrait” (Circo de Ideias, 2024) and co-authored the book “After five years of living” (exemplo books, 2024). In 2023, the issue of AMAG PT #04 was dedicated to the first works of atelier local, which have also been recognized in several national and international awards, such as Prémios Forma (winner, 2024), the Arquia Foundation Awards (finalist, 2024) or the Lisbon Triennale Début Award (shortlisted, 2025).

Maria Souto de Moura

Maria Souto de Moura (b. 1990, Portugal) is an architect and visual artist based in Porto. She graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 2014, where she was awarded the Viana de Lima Prize – Architecture. Since 2022, she has been teaching as a guest assistant in the Project 4 course at FAUP. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). Between 2014 and 2023, she collaborated with Álvaro Siza’s studio, where she was responsible for significant projects including the Fundação Gramaxo, Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis, and the Álvaro Siza Wing of the Serralves Museum. Her independent architectural work includes the 1st Prize-winning project for Affordable Housing in Lordelo do Ouro, Porto (2021), in co-authorship. Since 2017, Maria has also developed a parallel visual art practice through her studio – maria souto de moura studio – exhibiting in group shows such as Arte na Leira (Caminha, since 2018), Nó at Galeria Cisterna (Lisbon, 2019), JustMad Art Fair (Madrid, 2020), I think I made you up at Plato (Évora, 2022), and 30 anos depois… at Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, 2023). In 2017, she was selected for the national showcase Jovens Criadores with the pavilion Contemplação Particular, a collaboration with painter António Gonçalves, presented at the CCB, Lisbon. Maria is a co-founder of fr-ia, where she currently develops her professional practice, integrating architecture and visual art.

Rita Leite

Indexnewspaper

Indexnewspaper is a magazine of architecture printed in newspaper paper.
The editorial contains an interview, a visit to an office, projects and works, and essays. The front cover has an ” artwork ” designed by an invited artist.
Since 2012 Indexnewspaper has been part of several worldwide events related to publishing and editorial design.
Indexnewspaper was awarded with the prize Clube de Criativos de Portugal 2012 for editorial design and selected for the collection of the library of MOMA in New York.
Alongside with the regular edition, Indexnewspaper published special editions and the edition of books. Indexnewspaper has also organized conferences, exhibitions, and workshops.
For us, Index is “the finest newspaper”.

Indexshop

Indexshop presents you an ongoing independent selection of books and objects of architects, artists and designers. It is also the Indexnewspaper and Porto Academy official store.

Beyond its curatorial vocation, Indexshop is increasingly committed to supporting architectural practice by supplying studios with a carefully selected range of architectural hardware and project-specific solutions.

Ivo Tavares Studio

Ivo Tavares Studio is a photography studio specialized in architecture, dedicated to creating images that capture the essence of spaces.

With an approach that combines documentary rigor and artistic sensitivity, the studio works closely with architects, designers, and institutions, contributing to the communication and appreciation of their projects.

The practice of the studio is built on two main pillars: the observation of light as a structuring element of the image and the pursuit of visual narratives that go beyond mere documentation. Each photograph seeks not only to record a building but also to convey the atmosphere, the experience, and the impact of the space on its urban or natural surroundings.

Over the years, Ivo Tavares Studio has consolidated its presence in the national scene, with projects widely published in leading international magazines and platforms. Its work aims not only to promote contemporary architecture but also to expand its cultural reach, strengthening the visibility of Portuguese architectural production worldwide.

Porto City

Amorim

Amorim Cork Insulation is integrated in Corticeira Amorim and has a strong foothold in the world market, arising from a rigorous commitment to compliance with the quality standards and demands required primarily by the sustainable construction sector.
Its history dates back to 1963, having appeared this year as a test tube for the agglomerates industry, proving it is an industry that survives per se.
In 1987 Corticeira Amorim SA, as part of a strategic plan for the Group about insulation cork products, created Expocor, a company of Portuguese-British capital devoted to the production and marketing of expanded insulation cork whose goal was to promote and disseminate a product from which new markets and applications would arise, by customizing the expanded insulation cork, a natural product of unmatched features.
Amorim Cork Insulation appears in 1997 as a business unit Amorim Group, to produce expanded insulation cork and is market leader with brands Amorim (corporate brand), Corkpan (Italian market), Corktherm 040 (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), Corkisol (France) and Thermacork (USA).
In order to achieve certification and total quality, Amorim Cork Insulation is a company seeking high levels of quality and productivity, where the protection of the environment and the preservation of natural resources are a constant, clearly demonstrating its position in the community in which it operates.

PANORAMAH!

With surfaces above 98% structural glass, minimalist windows are all about glazing. From an industrial point of view, more significant glass dimensions require larger tempering furnaces, smooth operability and technical performances impose precision and higher quality standards, often more demanding than defined by international glass processing norms.
To keep up with new challenges, panoramah! verticalized its industrial activity and integrated glass transformation in 2011. Continuously investing in its transformation capacity ever since, it became one of the largest glass transformers in Europe with a 9-metre furnace and the ability to process double- and triple-glazed units up to 29 sqm. This capacity has proved critical in different processes, mainly as glass progressively absorbs new functions, admits irregular and curved shapes or assumes various aesthetic requirements.
panoramah! is currently the only manufacturer of minimalist windows in the world that processes and manufactures the main components of its systems, having full control and accountability over the entire process. From design to manufacture and installation, we answer for the complete system, both glass and aluminium. We streamlined glass transformation, adaptation to the system and transportation to the job site, rendering an apparently risky and complex procedure into an everyday job.
Furthermore, with built experience in over 60 different countries and a strong network of more than 50 certified specialized partners, panoramah! is effectively present throughout the globe. Supported by our team, this network is composed by fully experienced technicians that ensure a constant presence at all stages, from glazing consulting to installation and long-term maintenance.