Casa da Arquitectura

Casa da Arquitectura – Portuguese Centre for Architecture, created in 2007, is an non-profit cultural association, dedicated to the affirmation and divulgation of architecture in Portugal and abroad.
Casa da Arquitectura (CA) intends to fill in the need, in Portugal, of an institution that may treat, receive and make accessible to all the documental collections of different architects, promoting reflection on architecture and taking architecture to the knowledgement and understanding of the general public.
The activity of Casa da Arquitectura has received from the Portuguese State, year after year, the recognition of Cultural Interest.

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

Teatro Rivoli

It was inaugurated in 1913 as a National Theatre. In the following years, changes in the urban centre forced a reconsideration and update of the building and thus Teatro Rivoli came to be, in 1923 – refurbished, adapted as a movie theatre, with a programme of opera, dance, theatre and concerts. Architect and engineer Júlio Brito signed the project. In 1994 it was closed for a complete refurbishment, with a project by architect Pedro Ramalho. In October 1997, Rivoli reopened its doors. Presently, Rivoli hosts the national and international programme of Teatro Municipal do Porto with a particular focus on dance, theatre, music, puppetry, contemporary circus and film, along with some of the city’s main events.

Adamo Faiden

Adamo-Faiden is an architecture studio established in Buenos Aires in 2005 by Sebastian Adamo and Marcelo Faiden.
Their practice extends to the field of teaching and research, and has been internationally recognized by different media and institutions. Their works were exhibited at the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the LIGA Architecture gallery in Mexico, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, the Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York, and at Princeton University School of Architecture.
Four monographic publications compiled the work of adamo-faiden, the last of them published by TC Cuadernos in Spain, one published by Casa Editrice Libria in Italy, another by the magazine 2G of Gustavo Gili in Spain and the first of them by Editorial ARQ from the Pontificial Catholic University of Chile. In 2019 Agustín Fiorito becomes an associate architect in the firm, inaugurating at the same time adamo-faiden headquarters in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Arquitectura-G

Arquitectura-G is a young architectural studio based in Barcelona run by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta that began its professional career in the midst of the economic crisis, when public architecture competitions in Spain were paralyzed and the private initiative for housing construction was frozen.
Their first works were apartment renovations in Barcelona, the few opportunities that the market offered at the time, but for a few years they have begun to build new buildings, such as the Luz house, for which they received the Mies van der Rohe Award for Emerging Architecture in 2015. His work moves between references to the local architecture of the 1970s and 80s and a new version of hedonistic Mediterranean architecture. ~
In addition to their works around Barcelona, they have also built four stores for the fashion brand Acne (Nagoya, Stockholm, New York and Paris) and are currently working on a residential project in Portugal.

Atelier Bow-Wow

Fran Silvestre

Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is an architecture and design studio in search of the Efficient Beauty. It was founded in 2005 by Fran Silvestre and is formed by a multidisciplinary group of professionals who carry out residential, cultural, corporate and public projects on an international level.
We work as a team from the start of each assignment, delving into the initial concepts and ideas, which to us are the soul of the project, including the structure and interior design. For each project, we prepare at least 3 different design proposals, all addressing the wish list from the clients, the plot, and all the regulations. For us, it is a conceptual challenge that drives us to improve and pushes us to always go a little further to step out of our comfort zone. For our clients, knowing that their choices will become a part of the design process, establishing a foundation of trust.
Regarding the projects scale, we work from masterplans, groups of buildings or residences, down to small-scale projects, attending to the smallest detail. In development projects, we take charge of brand branding, corporate design, graphic design, web, promotional images and/or videos, plans, and construction, trying to cover everything with the same perspective to thus generate a comprehensive project. Every project is as important as the others and we value each one as if it were the first, the last, and the only one.

Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge

Meyer-Grohbruegge is an architecture and design office based in Berlin. The office looks for simple spatial answers to complex questions.
We want to create relationships, between people but also to our environment as a whole. This involves the spatialization of content and the development of new beliefs in exchange with our clients. With a variety of projects ranging from art galleries and collections, residential buildings, exhibition and furniture design, the office explores the possibilities of creating different ways of living together and generating new identities.
After graduating from the ETH Zürich Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge worked for SANAA in Tokyo for 5 years before setting up her office June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff in 2010 and Meyer-Grohbruegge in 2015. Johanna has taught at several institutions, such as the Columbia GSAPP, the Northeastern University Boston and the Washington University St. Louis and the DIA Dessau. Since 2021 she holds the chair for architecture and spatial design at the TU Darmstadt.

Ling Hao

Born in 1968 in Sarawak, Malaysia. Graduated from University of New South Wales, Australia in 1992, he established Linghao Architects in Singapore in 2000. Awarded Singapore President’s Design Award in 2013 and 2014, his work has been exhibited at TOTO Gallery-MA, Tokyo, in 2015. Visiting Associate Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2015 and 2017.

Luís Urbano

Luis Urbano (1972) graduated in Architecture from the University of Coimbra, from where he later concluded a post-graduation in ‘Architecture, Territory and Memory’. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at University of Porto (2015), where he began teaching in 1999. Since then he has been lecturing in architecture schools, museums and conferences, chiefly focusing on the intersections between architecture and cinema. On this theme he has contributed with essays and reviews to academic journals and professional magazines. He has coordinated the international seminar ‘Designing Light’ (2007); the workshop ‘Cinemarchitecture’ (2008-2010); the summer course ‘Architecture and Film’ (2010-2012), and the research project ‘Silent Rupture. Intersections between architecture and film. Portugal, 1960-1974’ (2010-2013). He has edited the books ‘Designing Light’ (2007); ‘Mundo Perfeito: Fernando Guerra Photography’ (2008) and ‘Revoluções, Arquitectura e Cinema nos Anos 60/70’ (2013). He is the editor of ‘JACK- Journal on Architecture and Cinema’. He authored the book ‘Histórias Simples. Textos sobre arquitectura e cinema’ (2013) and directed the short films on architecture ‘Sizígia’ (2012), ‘The house next door’ (2012) and ‘How to draw a house’ (2014).

Manuel Cervantes

Mexico City 1977. Graduated as an architect by the Anahuac University and member of the National System of art creators from 2016, founded MANUEL CERVANTES CESPEDES / CC ARQUITECTOS in 2004. In 2006 one of the firm’s departments began to focus on urban projects and mass transport, leading to research around Multimodal Transfer Centers (CETRAM) and Transit Oriented Development (TOD).
He has done works for dependencies such as INFONAVIT and different Mexican Republic governments, as well as urban and architectural projects in several countries of the American Continent, in the same way he has given workshops and conferences in several Universities in countries such as Mexico, United
States, Spain and Portugal. He has also been honored with national and international awards, including: Luis Barragan Lifetime Achievement from Mexico’s College of Architects (CAM-SAM), the Architectural League of New York 2015
Emerging Voices, the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award 2014 and the first prize in the architectural design category at the XIX Pan-American Biennial of architecture of Quito-BAQ 2014.
As well as several silver medals in Mexico’s National Architecture Biennial.

Not Vital

Not Vital (b.1948) is from the mountain village of Sent, located in the Engadin valley (Switzerland). He currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, and Sent. Vital studied art in Paris and Rome before moving to New York in 1976. He is an unconventional sculptor in many ways, not least because he also produces extraordinary prints, drawings and, (since 2009) paintings.
Vital leads a nomadic life, and this directly influences his work, as he often engages with local materials and craftsmanship. For example: in Murano (Italy) he worked with glassblowers; in Niger with the Tuareg silversmiths; in Bhutan with papermakers, and in Beijing with steel-welders and woodworkers. The subject matter often revolves around animals and nature, yet Vital presents these familiar sights to us in wholly unexpected ways. Since 2000, his practice has expanded to include buildings such as houses, schools, towers, bridges and tunnels, which blur the boundaries between art and architectures. These constructions are permanent structures, many of which can be seen in his sculpture park in Sent – as well as in Belgium, Brazil, Indonesia, Niger and Patagonia.

NP2F

P2F is an architectural agency created in 2009 by François Chas, Nicolas Guérin, Fabrice Long and Paul Maitre Devallon. Today, it has around twenty people spread across Nice and Paris and operates in various cities in France and abroad.
The projects, on which NP2F is working, are both architectural and urban, and its areas of expertise are sport, housing, cultural and educational buildings, places of relaxation and restoration, public space. The agency acquired a strong knowledge of sports spaces in the Paris metropolitan area by being scientific commissioner of the exhibition « Sports, portrait of a metropolis » for the arsenal pavilion in 2014. Whatever name is given, architecture, town planning, design,we believe that all the spatial complexities of the territory are emerging and that it’ is from the drawing that the first act of construction is born. Drawing is the tool of the understanding of pre-existing logics and the prefiguration of future potentials.
A form must have intelligence. We therefore attach major and permanent importance to it, we believe that it is the quality of the design that will be born the solidity,’utility and elegance of the spaces produced. The project tends to geometrize hypotheses, to create a culture of the subject, while necessarily establishing an order and a prioritization of the actions to be carried out. Thus, it is often necessary to focus our efforts and the economy of the operation on a few specific points: a hierarchy of gesture to allow us to focus on the essential.
One element,as trivial as it is, can alone change the global image and quality of use of a place. This amounts to being a fake in front of any determinism; the size or the constraints of an intervention cannot justify a minimum posture, quite the contrary. Like Urban Villas, housing can engage a powerful territorial reflection and conversely we are convinced that’a public square can convey notions of precise domesticity.

Sam Chermayeff

Sam Chermayeff Office has an extended interest in how we live alone and together.
Sam Chermayeff is an architect, designer and teacher undertaking projects worldwide. Trained in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and the Architectural Association, London, Sam is a founding partner and director in the architecture firm June 14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff and Sam Chermayeff Office. With offices in New York and Berlin, the studios work on a wide range of design driven projects ranging from larger multiunit residential buildings in Berlin, several small houses in New York and furniture all over. Sam began his architectural career at SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa where he worked for more than five years on an array of projects across built and curatorial work including the 2009 Serpentine Pavilion and the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. He has taught at Columbia GSAAP, MSA Münster, The Royal College of Art, DIA, Dessau, Cornell University and the Architectural Association.
Both June 14 and his personal office are engaging in a wide range of projects including furniture and multiunit housing projects.

Sauter Von Moos

Sauter von Moos is an architecture studio established in Basel by Florian Sauter and Charlotte von Moos, and as of late based in Miami.
The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice.
We like places of authenticity. Fine-tuned environmental, urban, and programmatic differentiation enhances spatial identity. We value the expressive powers of architecture, but also its need to answer the subtleties of the pragmatic. Fostering social interaction, our work should respond to both a communal and human scale. Shaped by earth, water, air, and light, it aims to intimately embrace and bring the world to presence, amazed by its complexity and beauty. Advocating for experimentation and exploration, freeness in architecture, for us, primarily means continually challenging one’s own convictions. As a joyful act of poetic imagination, we hope to create spaces and places of serenity, simplicity, and magical enchantment which, no matter how sumptuous or how humble, contribute to a dignified life.

SO-IL

SO–IL was born in New York in 2008.
Diverse in origin, our team of collaborators speaks a dozen languages and is informed by global narratives and perspectives. We are both locally-rooted and nationless, coming together as a mid-size, well-recognized company. With our ambitious private and public clients, we explore how the creation of environments and objects inspires lasting positive intellectual and societal engagement.
We have completed projects in Leon, Seoul, and Lisbon, as well as our hometown, Brooklyn, New York.
In a digitized world that increasingly draws one inward, our architecture is outward-looking, engendering meaningful dialogue with what is materially and psychologically outside of ourselves. Our concept home for nomadic living in Milan encourages an active awareness of life beyond routine. At the University of California, Davis campus, we designed a museum that cultivates an intentionally open-ended relationship between the visitor and the site at the outset.
We design with time in mind. Whether working with existing structures or building from the ground, we carefully investigate physical properties and history. In Meisenthal, France, we transformed an industrial heritage site into a thriving cultural campus in this way. Our interventions are both respectful of their pasts and adaptable to a dynamic future.
We have been featured in the New York Times, CNN, and Frankfurter Allgemeine. Our work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Our team has received numerous accolades, including the Vilcek Award, the Curbed Groundbreakers Award, and the MoMAPS1 Young Architects Program Award.
Our New York practice is led by Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg.

Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor Architects are an award winning practice that work both domestically and internationally to produce high quality contemporary buildings and urbanism. Stephen Taylor has led an office in Shoreditch, East London since 1993, as well as a studio in Paris since 2021. The practice was named AYA Architect of the Year in 2009 and again in 2010 for our work in housing and masterplanning.
With a continuing commitment to architecture’s social dimension, as well as its capacity for artistic and cultural expression, we recognise the collective process by which buildings and cities are made as part of an ongoing economic, social and cultural continuum. Amongst our interests lie a strong concern for the direct emotional effect that architecture can have through its physical and pictorial presence, material association and constructional directness. An architecture that can be consensual whilst catalytic, mundane yet dramatic. We are committed to the craft of sustainable construction and the research of new technologies in pursuit of making buildings that fulfil not only our clients’ expectations of space, light and air, but also economic and efficient procurement and environmental responsibility.

Steven Holl

Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and in 1977 established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America’s most important architects, Steven Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance. Steven Holl has been recognized with architecture’s most prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, Steven Holl received the 2014 Praemium Imperiale, the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award, and the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2009). In 2012, Steven Holl received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus Award from the University of Washington, and has received honorary degrees from Seattle University and Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest. In 2003 he was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2002 the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institute, awarded him their prestigious National Design Award in Architecture. In 2001 France bestowed the Grande Médaille d’Or upon him, for Best Architect of the Academy of Architecture; and in the same year Time Magazine declared him “America’s Best Architect” for his ‘buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye’. Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He has lectured and exhibited widely and has published numerous texts including Anchoring (1989), Intertwining (1996), Parallax (2000), Idea and Phenomena (2002), Luminosity/Porosity (2006), House: black swan theory (2007), Architecture Spoken (2007), Urbanisms: Workin

Studio Muoto

Studio Muoto is an architectural office based in Paris since 2003. Its activities cover the fields of architecture, urban planning, design, teaching and scientific research. Muoto’s work features minimal structures that can combine different activities, evolve in time, and merge economical and aesthetic issues. Muoto means form in Finnish.

Aitor Fuentes

ARQUITECTURA-G is a Barcelona-based architectural practice founded in 2006. They work applying the best custom-made solutions in search of a humane architecture. They have a broad experience in renovation of historical architecture and their current work combines international projects of unique renovations and new constructions.
Their work has been widely published in national and international media, and has received several awards, most notably the Emerging Architect Prize of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. In addition to their architectural practice, they are in charge of the architecture section of Apartamento Magazine, and they established the furniture company Indoors in 2012.

Charlotte von Moos

Sauter von Moos is an architecture studio established in Basel, Switzerland, in 2010, by Florian Sauter and Charlotte von Moos. The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice. Amongst their best-known projects are the House with a Tree (Basel, 2013), the competition entry for a Natural History Museum and City Archive (Basel, 2014), and the exhibition contribution Sonsbeek Ready-made for the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2017. Besides their practical activities, both partners have been engaged in teaching and research at different universities like ETH Zurich, the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Harvard GSD and TU Munich. As co-editors and authors they have published a series of books including Earth Water Air Fire (Actar, 2014), achtung: die Landschaft (Lars Müller Publishers, 2015) and Painting the Sky Black (de Gruyter Open, 2017).
“We like places of authenticity. Fine tuned environmental, urban and programmatic differentiation enhances spatial identity. We value a building’s expressive powers, but also its need to answer the subtleties of the pragmatic. Fostering social exchange and interaction, our architecture of the in-between should respond to both a communal and human scale. In each project, a specific assembly of rooms aims to create discrete backgrounds for life. Shaped by earth, water, air and light, our buildings seek to architecturalize nature. With the ease of a ruin we hope to bring the world to presence.”

Florian Idenburg

SO – IL builds culture. We envision spaces for the arts, innovation, living and learning. We design with strong direction and clarity to engage our evolving world.
We work together with clients and consultants to realize the vision for each project. Synthesizing digital technology and traditional craft, we design to re-engage people with the physical realm. Our projects serve as
platforms of exchange that welcome interpretation and transformation.
Our efforts have been recognized with a variety of professional awards for architecture as well as design and innovation, including an AIA San Francisco Merit Award, the Curbed Groundbreakers Award, the Progressive Architecture Award, the Architectural League Emerging Voices Award, the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Award and the AIA Young Architects Award.
Publications such as The New York Times, Wired, BOMB, Domus, and Architectural Record have featured our work. According to the Los Angeles Times, our design for the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, suggests “fresh directions for American architecture.”
SO – IL was founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in 2008.

Florian Sauter

Sauter von Moos is an architecture studio established in Basel, Switzerland, in 2010, by Florian Sauter and Charlotte von Moos. The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice. Amongst their best-known projects are the House with a Tree (Basel, 2013), the competition entry for a Natural History Museum and City Archive (Basel, 2014), and the exhibition contribution Sonsbeek Ready-made for the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2017. Besides their practical activities, both partners have been engaged in teaching and research at different universities like ETH Zurich, the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Harvard GSD and TU Munich. As co-editors and authors they have published a series of books including Earth Water Air Fire (Actar, 2014), achtung: die Landschaft (Lars Müller Publishers, 2015) and Painting the Sky Black (de Gruyter Open, 2017).
“We like places of authenticity. Fine tuned environmental, urban and programmatic differentiation enhances spatial identity. We value a building’s expressive powers, but also its need to answer the subtleties of the pragmatic. Fostering social exchange and interaction, our architecture of the in-between should respond to both a communal and human scale. In each project, a specific assembly of rooms aims to create discrete backgrounds for life. Shaped by earth, water, air and light, our buildings seek to architecturalize nature. With the ease of a ruin we hope to bring the world to presence.”

Fran Silvestre

Fran Silvestre, architect in the specialty of building (Honors) by the ETSA of Valencia and in the specialty of Town Planning (Honors) by the TU/e (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), Phd at the Polytechnic University of Valencia within the program project from the territory a modern look 2012-2016 (Magna Cum Laude), is a professor in the Department of Projects of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and assistant director of the School of Architecture in the period 2010-2012. He is currently Professor of Projects at the European University of Valencia and director of the Master’s MArch | In Architecture, design and innovation of the European University of Valencia.
Their study with the collaboration and the usual support in the projects of other studies such as Alfaro Hofmann in Interior Design or David Gallardo in Design and calculation of structures.
Fran Silvestre has collaborated with the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, Pritzker Prize and Doctor Honoris Causa by several universities.
He has received the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2013, 2015 dArchitecture Buil Award prize, prize WIN Architecture Award and other first prizes in the Contest of the peninsula for the remodeling of the Colonia Güell crypt_Antoni Gaudí – Barcelona, National Competition Fundación Caja de Arquitectos – Barcelona, competition for the remodeling of the axle Prado Recollects – Madrid (as a collaborator of Álvaro Siza Vieira), the College of Architects of Granada_Building Zaida exposed in the MOMA_On Site – New York (as a collaborator of Álvaro Siza Vieira), National Competition of Contemporary Art Gallery and Auditorium Edgar Neville – Valencia, and restricted competition for Shopping Center, Public Garden and building of houses in Bétera – Valencia.
In addition, he has received the first prize for the work “MHK Casa del Atrio” – Berlin; and the play “House in the slope of the castle” has been selected by the Fundación Caja de architects to form part of the catalog that contains the best works of Spanish architecture 2008-2009.
He has participated in numerous seminars and conferences in universities and institutions from Europe and the US to explain his work. The projects of the study have been exposed in various museums and galleries of contemporary art and have been published in international journals of architecture and design, among which are: Architectural Record, Wallpaper, TC Cuadernos, Pencil, GG, GA Houses, On-Site, AV, Igloo, Interni, Architecture and Design.

François Chas

NP2F is an architecture practice created in 2009 by Nicolas Guérin, Paul Maitre Devallon, Fabrice Long and François Chas. Together, 12 people work between Nice and Paris and intervene in many cities in France and abroad. The projects on which the NP2F practice work are architectural as well as and urban. Its fields of competence are sports, housing, cultural and educational buildings, relaxation and catering spaces, and public spaces.
The practice has acquired a strong knowledge in spaces for sports in the Parisian metropolis whilst being a scientific curator to the exhibition “Sports, portrait of a metropolis” for the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in 2014.
Today, the practice is developing 127 housing units for the mutation of the Caserne de Reuilly (Paris 12th) and the Sports Cathedral of Bordeaux Brazza.

Gilles Delalex

Is a French architect. He studied architecture in Grenoble and Montreal. He holds a Master in urban planning and a Doctorate of Arts from Alvar Aalto University, Helsinki. He is currently a professor at the School of Paris-Malaquais, where he heads the department “Theory, History and Project”. Since 1998, he has been a research fellow at the Liat Lab focusing on modernity and infrastructures.
Studio Muoto is an architectural office based in Paris since 2003. Its activities cover the fields of architecture, urban planning, design, teaching and scientific research. Muoto’s work features minimal structures that can combine different activities, evolve in time, and merge economical and aesthetic issues. Muoto means form in Finnish.

Igor Urdampilleta

ARQUITECTURA-G is a Barcelona-based architectural practice founded in 2006. They work applying the best custom-made solutions in search of a humane architecture. They have a broad experience in renovation of historical architecture and their current work combines international projects of unique renovations and new constructions.
Their work has been widely published in national and international media, and has received several awards, most notably the Emerging Architect Prize of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. In addition to their architectural practice, they are in charge of the architecture section of Apartamento Magazine, and they established the furniture company Indoors in 2012.

Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge

Meyer-grohbruegge is an architecture and design office based in berlin. The office looks for simple spatial answers to complex questions.
We want to create relationships, between people but also to our environment as a whole. This involves the spatialization of content and the development of new beliefs in exchange with our clients. With a variety of projects ranging from art galleries and collections, residential buildings, exhibition and furniture design, the office explores the possibilities of creating different ways of living together and generating new identities.
After graduating from the eth zürich johanna meyer-grohbrügge worked for sanaa in tokyo for 5 years before setting up her office june14 meyer-grohbrügge & chermayeff in 2010 and meyer-grohbruegge in 2015. Johanna has taught at several institutions, such as the columbia gsapp, the northeastern university boston and the washington university st. Louis and the dia dessau. Since 2021 she holds the chair for architecture and spatial design at the tu darmstadt.

Ling Hao

Born in 1968 in Sarawak, Malaysia. Graduated from University of New South Wales, Australia in 1992, he established Linghao Architects in Singapore in 2000. Awarded Singapore President’s Design Award in 2013 and 2014, his work has been exhibited at TOTO Gallery-MA, Tokyo, in 2015. Visiting Associate Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2015 and 2017.

Luís Urbano

Luis Urbano (1972) graduated in Architecture from the University of Coimbra, from where he later concluded a post-graduation in ‘Architecture, Territory and Memory’. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at University of Porto (2015), where he began teaching in 1999. Since then he has been lecturing in architecture schools, museums and conferences, chiefly focusing on the intersections between architecture and cinema. On this theme he has contributed with essays and reviews to academic journals and professional magazines. He has coordinated the international seminar ‘Designing Light’ (2007); the workshop ‘Cinemarchitecture’ (2008-2010); the summer course ‘Architecture and Film’ (2010-2012), and the research project ‘Silent Rupture. Intersections between architecture and film. Portugal, 1960-1974’ (2010-2013). He has edited the books ‘Designing Light’ (2007); ‘Mundo Perfeito: Fernando Guerra Photography’ (2008) and ‘Revoluções, Arquitectura e Cinema nos Anos 60/70’ (2013). He is the editor of ‘JACK- Journal on Architecture and Cinema’. He authored the book ‘Histórias Simples. Textos sobre arquitectura e cinema’ (2013) and directed the short films on architecture ‘Sizígia’ (2012), ‘The house next door’ (2012) and ‘How to draw a house’ (2014).

Manuel Cervantes

Mexico City 1977. Graduated as an architect by the Anahuac University and member of the National System of art creators from 2016, founded MANUEL CERVANTES CESPEDES / CC ARQUITECTOS in 2004. In 2006 one of the firm’s departments began to focus on urban projects and mass transport, leading to research around Multimodal Transfer Centers (CETRAM) and Transit Oriented Development (TOD).
He has done works for dependencies such as INFONAVIT and different Mexican Republic governments, as well as urban and architectural projects in several countries of the American Continent, in the same way he has given workshops and conferences in several Universities in countries such as Mexico, United
States, Spain and Portugal. He has also been honored with national and international awards, including: Luis Barragan Lifetime Achievement from Mexico’s College of Architects (CAM-SAM), the Architectural League of New York 2015
Emerging Voices, the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award 2014 and the first prize in the architectural design category at the XIX Pan-American Biennial of architecture of Quito-BAQ 2014.
As well as several silver medals in Mexico’s National Architecture Biennial.

Not Vital

Not Vital (b.1948) is from the mountain village of Sent, located in the Engadin valley (Switzerland). He currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, and Sent. Vital studied art in Paris and Rome before moving to New York in 1976. He is an unconventional sculptor in many ways, not least because he also produces extraordinary prints, drawings and, (since 2009) paintings.
Vital leads a nomadic life, and this directly influences his work, as he often engages with local materials and craftsmanship. For example: in Murano (Italy) he worked with glassblowers; in Niger with the Tuareg silversmiths; in Bhutan with papermakers, and in Beijing with steel-welders and woodworkers. The subject matter often revolves around animals and nature, yet Vital presents these familiar sights to us in wholly unexpected ways. Since 2000, his practice has expanded to include buildings such as houses, schools, towers, bridges and tunnels, which blur the boundaries between art and architectures. These constructions are permanent structures, many of which can be seen in his sculpture park in Sent – as well as in Belgium, Brazil, Indonesia, Niger and Patagonia.

Paul Maitre Devallon

NP2F is an architecture practice created in 2009 by Nicolas Guérin, Paul Maitre Devallon, Fabrice Long and François Chas. Together, 12 people work between Nice and Paris and intervene in many cities in France and abroad. The projects on which the NP2F practice work are architectural as well as and urban. Its fields of competence are sports, housing, cultural and educational buildings, relaxation and catering spaces, and public spaces.
The practice has acquired a strong knowledge in spaces for sports in the Parisian metropolis whilst being a scientific curator to the exhibition “Sports, portrait of a metropolis” for the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in 2014.
Today, the practice is developing 127 housing units for the mutation of the Caserne de Reuilly (Paris 12th) and the Sports Cathedral of Bordeaux Brazza.

Sam Chermayeff

Sam Chermayeff is an architect, designer and teacher undertaking projects worldwide. Trained in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and the Architectural Association, London, Sam is a founding partner and director in the architecture firm June 14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff and Sam Chermayeff Office. With offices in New York and Berlin, the studios work on a wide range of design driven projects ranging from larger multiunit residential buildings in Berlin, several small houses in New York and furniture all over. Sam began his architectural career at SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa where he worked for more than five years on an array of projects across built and curatorial work including the 2009 Serpentine Pavilion and the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. He has taught at Columbia GSAAP, MSA Münster, The Royal College of Art, DIA, Dessau, Cornell University and the Architectural Association.
Sam Chermayeff Office has an extended interest in how we live alone and together.

Sebastian Adamo

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) and postgraduate studies at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-UPC). He was a visiting professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture, the Polytechnic University of Milan, FADU-UBA, and the Torcuato Di Tella University. He was invited to teach and give lectures at numerous institutions, including the Princeton School of Architecture, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Porto School of Architecture, the Polytechnic University of Milan, the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Madrid, the University of Talca, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor Architects are an award winning practice that work both domestically and internationally to produce high quality contemporary buildings and urbanism. Stephen Taylor has led an office in Shoreditch, East London since 1993, as well as a studio in Paris since 2021. The practice was named AYA Architect of the Year in 2009 and again in 2010 for our work in housing and masterplanning.
With a continuing commitment to architecture’s social dimension, as well as its capacity for artistic and cultural expression, we recognise the collective process by which buildings and cities are made as part of an ongoing economic, social and cultural continuum. Amongst our interests lie a strong concern for the direct emotional effect that architecture can have through its physical and pictorial presence, material association and constructional directness. An architecture that can be consensual whilst catalytic, mundane yet dramatic. We are committed to the craft of sustainable construction and the research of new technologies in pursuit of making buildings that fulfil not only our clients’ expectations of space, light and air, but also economic and efficient procurement and environmental responsibility.
Stephen was appointed as a CABE enabler as part of CABE’s Enabling programme and has also previously worked as a consultant to the London Development Agency as a member of their Design Advisors Panel and as a member of the Newham Design Review Panel. He has lectured extensively on architecture and urban design throughout Europe and is currently a postgraduate unit master at the CASS School of Art, Architecture and Design, where he has taught since 2007.

Steven Holl

Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and in 1977 established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America’s most important architects, Steven Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance. Steven Holl has been recognized with architecture’s most prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, Steven Holl received the 2014 Praemium Imperiale, the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award, and the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2009). In 2012, Steven Holl received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus Award from the University of Washington, and has received honorary degrees from Seattle University and Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest. In 2003 he was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2002 the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institute, awarded him their prestigious National Design Award in Architecture. In 2001 France bestowed the Grande Médaille d’Or upon him, for Best Architect of the Academy of Architecture; and in the same year Time Magazine declared him “America’s Best Architect” for his ‘buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye’. Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He has lectured and exhibited widely and has published numerous texts including Anchoring (1989), Intertwining (1996), Parallax (2000), Idea and Phenomena (2002), Luminosity/Porosity (2006), House: black swan theory (2007), Architecture Spoken (2007), Urbanisms: Working with Doubt (2009), Hamsun Holl Hamarøy (2010), Horizontal Skyscraper (2011), Color Light Time (2012), and Scale (2012). Most recently published is Urban Hopes (2013). Steven Holl is a member of the American National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the American Institute of Architects, the American Association of Museums, the Honorary Whitney Circle, the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the International Honorary Committee, Vilpuri Library, of the Alvar Aalto Foundation.

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

Atelier Bow-Wow is a Tokyo-based architecture firm, founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima. The firm is well known for its domestic and cultural architecture and its research exploring the urban conditions of micro, ad-hoc architecture.
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1965. He studied architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology, graduating from his undergraduate degree in 1987. Tsukamoto travelled to Paris to be a guest student at L’Ecole d’Architecture de Belleville (UP 8) from 1987-88 and in 1994 he completed a Doctor of Engineering program at Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2000 Tsukamoto became an Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and in both 2003 and 2007 he was a Kenzo Tange Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD. Also in 2007 and again in 2008 he was a visiting Associate Professor at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Momoyo Kaijima was born in Tokyo in 1969. She received her undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women’s University in 1991 and both her graduate (M.Eng.) and post-graduate degrees were from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994 and 1999. She was also a guest student at Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH) from 1996-1997. In 2000 Kaijima became an Assistant Professor, and in 2009 an Associate Professor, at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba. Like Tsukamoto, in 2003 she was a visiting faculty (as a design critic) in the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD and between 2005 and 2007 she was also a guest professor at ETH Zurich. In 2010 she was the Architect in Residence at the University of Auckland.
They have produced many publications and architectural theories based on urbanism and design:–Pet Architecture-Behaviourology-Micro-Public Space-Da-Me Architecture-Generational Typology-Void Metabolism

Ana Rita Vale

Diogo Fonseca Lopes

(2023-25) Teaching assistant at Studio Texas, Epfl Lausanne; (2018–20) Teaching assistant at Studio Job Floris, Epfl Lausanne; (2019) Founded Cabinet, Geneva; (2018–19) Architect at Christ & Gantenbein, Basel; (2017–18) Teaching assistant at Manslab, Epfl Lausanne; (2012–17) Architect at Jaccaud+Associés, London and Geneva; (2012) Master in architecture, University of Coimbra; (2010–11) Director Nu Magazine

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.

José Pedro Lima

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.

João Francisco Sousa

João Salsa

Marcos Veiga

Marta Machado

Ricardo Leitão

Rita Furtado

Rui Filipe Pinto

Rui Filipe Pinto’s academic engagements are integral to his practice, contributing to a dynamic exchange between theoretical inquiry and architectural production. He taught at EPF Lausanne from 2015 to 2020, and is currently teaching at ETH Zürich, together with Professor Maria Conen. In 2023, he was invited as a guest professor at La Salle in Barcelona, and now serves as a guest assistant professor at the Department of Architecture at FCTUC in Coimbra. His contributions to architectural education also include a long-standing affiliation with the Porto Academy, where he was a regular participant from 2016 to 2022.

Sevak Asatrián

Stefano Passamonti

Taavi Hentonen

Domus

Founded by Gio Ponti in1928, Domus is the Italian brand on architecture, design and contemporary art with the highest international reputation.
Some of the world’s most famous names of architecture have edited the magazine in the past, including Gio Ponti, Alessandro Mendini, Mario Bellini, Dejan Sudjic, Joseph Grima. Steven Hall and Toshiko Mori are the current editors.
Every month, Domus narrates and investigates the architecture and design avant-gardes with a critical mind and special focus on design excellence.
It represents a privileged environment for information and in-depth study for inspired, design-conscious readers. Domus is an inspirational tool and guidance for the evolution of design culture, scientific and aesthetic vision of global design and art communities of architects, designers, enthusiasts and students.

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

Barbot

Barbot was born in Porto in 1920, in the aftermath of the First World War, with a factory located in Santo Ildefonso (Porto), in the hands of Diogo Barbot. This was the start of a family-run company with a traditional image, for which rigor, safety and quality were fundamental characteristics. All the graphic material and packaging of the time was marked with the initials of its founder – DB.
Founded in 1920, Barbot is today a benchmark in the Portuguese interior decoration and renovation market.
In the following years, Barbot would make a name for itself in the market. In 1958, under the responsibility of Carlos Aires Pereira, a new factory was built in Laborim and four years later, in 1962, under the management of Zaida Barbot, the founder’s daughter, the brand’s best-known paint and current sales leader, Barbot Dioplaste, was born.
The violent fire of 1981, which destroyed the entire Santo Ildefonso factory, would undoubtedly mark the brand’s history. It was at this time that a new cycle began, not only in terms of management, which was led by Carlos Barbot, Zaida Barbot’s son, but also in terms of structure. Barbot began its expansion with the transfer in 1982 of its facilities from Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia, and developed a policy of acquisitions and partnerships that helped to strengthen the brand and broaden its offer.
As a result of this strategy, by the mid-1980s the company had a reinforced sales team capable of covering the whole country.

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.