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

Arrhov Frick

The office was founded in 2010 in Stockholm by Johan Arrhov (1979) and Henrik Frick (1977). In 2017 Carlos Nieto (1977) became a collaborating partner.
Working with a diversity of projects, the ambition is to create architecture that makes life better for the people. We believe architecture should be simple to construct and easy to maintain. A building should be pleasant to live in and to discover.
The architecture is often reduced to its fundamentals, emphasizing ideological and programmatic simplicity through a focus on function, structural economy and construction logic. Many of the projects support flexible infrastructures that are capable of future iterations and uses, encouraging sustainability and longevity in the building industry.
The office has a collective competence with experience in all phases of the building process – from concept to finished building – including BIM-management on a larger scale.
In parallel to the studio, an involvement in the academic discourse as critics in juries and universities internationally is important. They frequently lecture throughout the world and their work is widely published in international magazines and books. Among other honors, Arrhov Frick has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and has recently been selected to redesign the new Architecture Museum in Stockholm.
Since 2021, Johan Arrhov is appointed as visiting professor at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland, holding a research-based studio addressing questions of necessary changes in behaviors and simplified constructions to achieve relevant and beautiful architectural proposals.

Atelier da Bouça

Dyvik Kahlen

Dyvik Kahlen is an architectural office founded by Christopher Dyvik and Max Kahlen. We collaborate worldwide on projects with public and art institutions, developers, artists, curators and private individuals. Our aspiration is to create good spaces that improve the quality of life of those who inhabit them, be it through a piece of furniture, a building or an urban plan.
Underlying our work is a desire for objects and spaces that are comfortable and versatile to accommodate our ever-changing needs for life, as much as a fascination for a rational and neutral form as basis of a resourceful and sustainable construction.

Estudio Herreros

In 2014, Herreros Arquitectos was transformed into estudio Herreros with the intention of opening up its practice to a partnership based configuration with which an international agenda can be approached while building on a solid national reputation. The first architect to become an associate is Jens Richter in recognition of his career with Herreros Arquitectos which began with its founding and where he has held the post of Director since 2010.
What is specific to the design methodology at estudioHerreros is the application of a work system which adapts the 30 years of experience of its founder Juan Herreros to a new generation of highly complex projects where divergent elements come together to find a happy coincidence: advanced architectural and urban programs and ideas, conflict situations of all kinds, strategic management matters, technical difficulties, sustainable energy resources, etc.
The fundamental idea adheres to the organizational principle of “the elaboration of a project for every project”, the cornerstone of the studio where the customer, specialists and architects come together to construct a situation of permanent dialogue where there are no matters of lesser importance.

Fala

Fala is a naïve architecture practice based in porto, led by filipe magalhães, ana luisa soares and ahmed belkhodja. established in 2013, the atelier works with methodic optimism on a wide range of projects, from territories to birdhouses. fala’s projects are a medley of formal languages, references, quotations, and themes, only regulated by an obsession for clarity; its architecture is both intuitive while rhetorical, hedonic and post-modern.

Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo is an architect and designer based in Mexico City. Her work focuses largely on the reactivation of urban spaces that are considered to be residual or forgotten, through projects that range from housing and community centers, to hotels, galleries, and public art installations. In addition to her practice, Frida Escobedo has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the recipient of the 2016 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award, the 2017 Architectural League Emerging Voices Award, and in 2018 was selected to design the 18th Serpentine Summer Pavilion in London.

Johansen Skovsted

Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is a younger award-winning architectural office. They provide solid, cost-conscious, locally rooted architecture that creates social cohesion and engages in dialogue with its surroundings. Projects are created in close cooperation with the developer, users, stakeholders and authorities, in order to create the best conditions for everyone. The site is evoked with respect for the surroundings regardless whether it is in the transformation of existing buildings or in creating new ones.
As an architectural studio, Johansen Skovsted are concerned with resource awareness – both in material and financial sense. Their focus lies on preserving existing building stock and circularity in recycling and reusability, which is emphasized in the choice and use of both conventional, biogenic and regenerative materials. We process and optimize construction and material handling, in collaboration with locals, professionals and specialists from the construction industry, to ensure that the climatic, economic and maintenance costs are kept down. It is a way of working where we cut to the bone and remove redundant layers, which gives the projects their architectural expression.
Johansen Skovsted works competently with cultural heritage and transformation in complex stakeholder and authority relationships, as well as under physical conditions that place special demands on the design of the building or the landscape. The architectural office sees value in the built cultural heritage, but also in the more unnoticed structures that contain potential to us, as a particularly malleable resource of already existing stories, spaces and materials. The existing, the familiar and the industrial are all celebrated, and with architectural care, proportioning and spatial tools transformed into contemporary, original and characterful projects.
The studio was founded in 2014 by Søren Johansen (b. 1981) and Sebastian Skovsted (b. 1982).

Lopez Rivera

Mónica Rivera and Emiliano López start working together in Barcelona in 2001. Since then they have focused their practice primarily on public works through competitions along with selected private commissions. Working with circumstance and turning constraints into opportunities, they try to find constructive and conceptual responses that are specific to each project and to each site, putting emphasis on ease of use, discreet intervention within the context and clarity of construction. They currently combine our practice with teaching.
Mónica Rivera was born in Puerto Rico in 1972. In 1999 she received a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD Scholarship). She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993 and a Bachelor of Architecture in 1994 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Scholarship). She worked for the firm Architecture Research Office (ARO) in New York for three years. In Barcelona, where she has been living since 1999, she worked for the Editorial Gustavo Gili from 2000 to 2004. She has been a guest Professor of architecture at the ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya from 1999 to 2002, Professor of third year Interior Design Studio focusing on domestic space at Elisava Escola de Disseny, Barcelona from 2001 to 2008, the Eugene McDermott Centennial Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin in 2017 and Visiting Professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis from 2015 to 2017. She is currently the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor and Chair of Graduate Architecture in the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Emiliano López was born in Argentina in 1971 and grew up in Barcelona. In 2012 he received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the Universitat Politèctina de Catalunya, with the thesis titled ‘6107 MSD. Peabody Terrace: Key

Madelon Vriesendorp

Madelon Vriesendorp was born in 1945 in Holland. In 1964 she studied in Amsterdam at the Rietveld Academy and later worked on the restoration of old frescoes and as a designer of stage costumes, books and jewellery. Five years later she enrolled at Central St. Martins School of Art in London. She exhibited her work at the Workshop and the Serpentine Gallery, among others.
In 1972 she moved to Ithaca and then New York with her husband, Rem Koolhaas. While in New York, Vriesendorp cofounded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Koolhaas, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. Paintings she produced at the time were used for book and magazine covers, notably on the cover of Delirious New York in 1978 by Rem Koolhaas. They were exhibited at the New York Guggenheim and Max Protetch galleries, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, Berlin’s Aedes Gallery and Gallery Ma in Tokyo among others.

MOS

Nicolas Dorval-Bory

Nicolas Dorval-Bory (1980) graduated from the ENSA Paris Val de Seine in 2007. Nicolas trained with Andrée Putman and Laurent Deroo before founding his office in Paris in 2008. After collaborations in Chile and Argentina (2009-2010), the office NICOLAS DORVAL-BORY ARCHITECTES operates today in a wide range of scales in France and abroad. In 2016, it has been awarded with the national AJAP prize, from the french Ministère de la Culture, an important biennial recognition for young architects.
Nicolas Dorval-Bory has been teaching, notably alongside Philippe Rahm, at the the ENSA Versailles since 2014 and previously at the ENSA Normandy (2011-2014).

OMMX

OMMX are architects. We promote alternative approaches to building that aren’t just about how a neighbourhood looks and feels, but also who and what it stands for. Our approach is rooted in academia but is above all grounded by practice and dialogue with clients, consultants and communities. We create spaces that we can all relate to and that help us relate to one another.
We have served a broad mix of private, social and public sector clients, working on affordable housing, private residences, galleries, offices, public spaces, festivals, exhibitions and shops. We currently advise Hackney and Brent Councils on their future development and sit on the board of Brighton’s West Pier Trust.
Selected clients include the V&A, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Design Museum, English Heritage, the Wellcome Collection, the British Library, Clerkenwell Design Week, The Youth Hostels Association, Naked House, Lendlease and Marian Goodman Gallery.
We have been nominated for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Lisbon Triennale Début Award and are included on the AJ’s 40 under 40 “a showcase of architecture’s brightest up-and-coming talent”.
Our work has been published widely and we regularly contribute to architectural critique and discourse at institutions across Europe. We recently participated in the Architecture Foundation event Introducing New Housing — “a presentation of the best architects and most progressive developers working in the UK today” — and at the Building Centre panel discussion Rethinking The Way We Live.

Raamwerk

RAAMWERK is a design collective led by Gijs De Cock and Freek Dendooven.
Since its establishment, RAAMWERK works on a portfolio of diverse projects in various sizes. The purpose is to create an empathic architecture that is characterized by critical social, programmatic and economic research.
RAAMWERK wants to achieve a certain generosity within the architectural process – the act of building – finally resulting in spaces that can be claimed by its users.

Scheidegger Keller

Christian Scheidegger studied architecture at ETH Zurich from 1998 to 2004. In 2004 he was awarded the ETH Medal for his diploma thesis “Kongresszentrum Leuk” and in 2002 the Steel Construction Prize for the “Office Tower on the Jelmoli Parking Garage” in Zurich City. He managed the “Schulhaus Leutschenbach” at the Christian Kerez architecture firm from 2004 to 2009, after which he opened his own architecture firm in Zurich-Wipkingen. He also teaches architecture and design at ETH Zurich.
Jürg Keller studied architecture at ETH Zurich from 1997 to 2004. He opened his own office in 2010, after managing the project for the “Haus mit einer Wand” in Zurich-Witikon at Christian Kerez’s office from 2004 to 2006 and the Grünwald “Ringling” residential development in Zurich-Höngg at Schneider Studer Primas from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2016 he taught architecture and design at ETH Zurich.
Atelier Scheidegger Keller was founded in 2012.

Tony Fretton

The practice has an international reputation for design and professionalism. We are highly receptive to our Clients’ views, knowledge and requirements and bring extensive best practice knowledge to their projects in the areas of design, organisation and construction through our international scope.
Our work ranges from embassies, government and commercial offices, high quality residential at all scales, to buildings for arts and culture. We have proven ability in realising buildings that exceed our Clients’ expectations and give long lasting pleasure and social and economic benefits in use.

Ahmed Belkhodja

Fala is a naïve architecture practice based in porto, led by filipe magalhães, ana luisa soares and ahmed belkhodja. established in 2013, the atelier works with methodic optimism on a wide range of projects, from territories to birdhouses. fala’s projects are a medley of formal languages, references, quotations, and themes, only regulated by an obsession for clarity; its architecture is both intuitive while rhetorical, hedonic and post-modern.

Ana Luísa Soares

Fala is a naïve architecture practice based in porto, led by filipe magalhães, ana luisa soares and ahmed belkhodja. established in 2013, the atelier works with methodic optimism on a wide range of projects, from territories to birdhouses. fala’s projects are a medley of formal languages, references, quotations, and themes, only regulated by an obsession for clarity; its architecture is both intuitive while rhetorical, hedonic and post-modern.

Christian Scheidegger

Christian Scheidegger studied architecture at ETH Zürich from 1998 to 2004.
In 2004 he was awarded with the ETH Medal and in 2002 for the diploma thesis project “Leuk Congress Center” and with the Swiss Steel Construction Award (Schweizer Stahlbaupreis “Prix Acier”) for the “Office Tower on the Jelmoli Parking Garage” in Zürich-City.
From 2004 to 2009 he led the “Leutschenbach Schoolhouse” in the architecture firm of Christian Kerez. He then opened his own architectural office in Zürich-Wipkingen.
He has taught architecture and design at the ETH Zürich as a lecturer.

Atelier Scheidegger Keller was founded in 2012.
The most important projects include “House with two Columns” in Wilen (2009-2014), “House on a Slope 1” in Gordola (2011-17) and the “Multi-family Houses Zwyssigstrasse” in Bern (2011-18).
Atelier Scheidegger Keller has received numerous awards for its project, 2015 the “Bauwelt-Award” and 2017 the “Concrete-Award” (Architekturpreis Beton 17) among others.

Christopher Dyvik

Dyvik Kahlen is a London/Porto/Oslo based office established in 2010 by Christopher Dyvik and Max Kahlen operating across various scales and sectors in the UK, Holland, Germany and Norway, collaborating with clients ranging from public institutions and developers to artists, curators and private individuals.
Underlying our work is a desire for objects and spaces that are comfortable and strangely familiar, as much as a fascination for rational and neutral form. Our aspiration is to create good spaces that improve the quality of life of those who inhabit them, be it through a piece of furniture, a building or an urban plan.
We regularly contribute to the academic discourse as critics and lecturers for academic institutions in London and abroad. During the past years we have been running ADS5, a Postgraduate Master Course at The Royal College of Art.

Emiliano López Matas

Emiliano López Matas was born in Argentina in 1971 and grew up in Barcelona. In 2012 he received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the Universitat Politèctina de Catalunya, with the thesis titled ‘6107 MSD. Peabody Terrace: Keys of a design process led by Josep Lluís Sert’. In 1999 he received a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (Real Colegio Complutense de Madrid Scholarship) and in 1997 he received the Master “History: Art, City and Architecture” from the UPC, ETSA Barcelona. He received his degree in Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vallès in 1996.
He has taught at the Univesitat Rovira i Virgili School of Architecture, Reus from 2006 to 2008; at the ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2001-2004); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Calgary University and co-director of the school’s Barcelona Architecture Program from 2004 to 2007, Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vallès from 2001 to 2004 and Adjunct Professor from 2008 to 2014, Visiting Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis from 2015-2017.
He is currently Senior Lecturer in the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Filipa Guerreiro

Filipa Guerreiro and Tiago Correia (1976), architects (FAUP. 2000 + Erasmus IUAVeneza in 98/99). Tiago worked with João Álvaro Rocha (1999-2001) and Filipa with Álvaro Siza (1999-2000). Filipa teachs Projecto in FAUP where he defended his doctoral thesis “Portuguese Agricultural Colonies built by the Internal Colonization Board between 1936 and 1960. The house, the settlement and the territory”.
In 2008 created the Atelier da Bouça, but they’ve been working together since 1998. From their works, most of them the result of a public competition, they highlight EPRAMI Professional School (Young Architect Award, 04/05 CVG) and EBI grammar school (selected to Habitar Portugal 2003-2005) both in Paredes de Coura, the environmental centres of Matosinhos (selected to Habitar Portugal 2000-2002) and of Protected Landscape the Corno de Bico (selected to Habitar Portugal 2006-2008, FAD finalist in 2008 and named Mies Award 2009) and Bouça das Cardosas Houses (selected to Habitar Portugal 2012-2014, named Mies Award 2015.
In 2007 they integrated the selection ‘ 44 Young International Architects ‘ / Architecture Plus (Grupo Via, Barcelona). In 2008, Atelier da Bouça was selected for the nº 128 of the magazine ‘Arquitectura Viva’ under the title ‘ EMERGENT Twenty Emerging Teams ‘.

Filipe Magalhães

fala is a naïve architecture practice based in porto, led by filipe magalhães, ana luisa soares and ahmed belkhodja. established in 2013, the atelier works with methodic optimism on a wide range of projects, from territories to birdhouses. fala’s projects are a medley of formal languages, references, quotations, and themes, only regulated by an obsession for clarity; its architecture is both intuitive while rhetorical, hedonic and post-modern.

Freek Dendooven

RAAMWERK is a design collective led by Gijs De Cock and Freek Dendooven.
Since its establishment, RAAMWERK works on a portfolio of diverse projects in various sizes. The purpose is to create an empathic architecture that is characterized by critical social, programmatic and economic research.
RAAMWERK wants to achieve a certain generosity within the architectural process – the act of building – finally resulting in spaces that can be claimed by its users.

Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo is an architect and designer based in Mexico City. Her work focuses largely on the reactivation of urban spaces that are considered to be residual or forgotten, through projects that range from housing and community centers, to hotels, galleries, and public art installations. In addition to her practice, Frida Escobedo has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the recipient of the 2016 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award, the 2017 Architectural League Emerging Voices Award, and in 2018 was selected to design the 18th Serpentine Summer Pavilion in London.

Gijs De Cock

RAAMWERK is a design collective led by Gijs De Cock and Freek Dendooven.
Since its establishment, RAAMWERK works on a portfolio of diverse projects in various sizes. The purpose is to create an empathic architecture that is characterized by critical social, programmatic and economic research.
RAAMWERK wants to achieve a certain generosity within the architectural process – the act of building – finally resulting in spaces that can be claimed by its users.

Henrik Frick

Johan Arrhov (1979) and Henrik Frick (1977) received their master’s in architecture from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2007. Together they established Arrhov Frick in 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. Carlos Nieto (1977) became a partner in 2017.
Working with a diversity of projects, the ambition is to create architecture that makes life better for the people. We believe architecture should be simple to construct and easy to maintain. It should be understandable and complex. A building should be pleasant to live in and to discover.
The architecture is often reduced to its fundamentals, emphasizing ideological and programmatic simplicity through a focus on function, structural economy and construction logic. Many of the projects support flexible infrastructures that are capable of future iterations and uses, encouraging sustainability and longevity in the building industry.
The office has a collective competence with experience in all phases of the building process – from concept to finished building – including BIM-management on a larger scale.
In 2018 they became the elected ‘Architect of the Year’ by Residence magazine and in the same year a monographic issue was published about Arrhov Frick by 2G International Architectural Magazine – the first Nordic architectural office. The office has been nominated for European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.
Arrhov Frick frequently lectures and teaches throughout the world and their work is widely published and exhibited internationally.

Hilary Sample

MOS is a New York–based architecture studio, founded by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2005. The studio has built projects internationally, with a focus on educational facilities, the arts, campus planning, housing, and private houses. MOS is committed to realizing architecture that is as innovative as it is pragmatic and responsible. Projects typically begin researching generic building types and vernacular construction along with the fundamental requirements of a project. Sensitive to materials and performance, work integrates building form and function.
MOS was the recipient of the 2020 USA Artist Fellowship, the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, and the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award. Individual works have similarly received numerous awards and distinctions. Recent work includes: House No. 10, a private residence in Upstate New York; an all-aluminum open-air school for children in Versailles, France; the Laboratorio de Vivienda, a 9-acre master plan and welcome center in Apan, Mexico; House No. 15 (House with Two Chimneys), part of a collaborative master plan for the Pulitzer Foundation; and ongoing affordable housing in Washington, D.C.
Recent and forthcoming publications, both products of and surveys on MOS’s work, include Selected Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016); El Croquis No. 184 (2016); An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture (MIT Press, 2019); Houses for Sale (CCA/Corraini, 2020); and 2G (2021).

Johan Arrhov

Johan Arrhov (1979) and Henrik Frick (1977) received their master’s in architecture from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2007. Together they established Arrhov Frick in 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden. Carlos Nieto (1977) became a partner in 2017.
Working with a diversity of projects, the ambition is to create architecture that makes life better for the people. We believe architecture should be simple to construct and easy to maintain. It should be understandable and complex. A building should be pleasant to live in and to discover.
The architecture is often reduced to its fundamentals, emphasizing ideological and programmatic simplicity through a focus on function, structural economy and construction logic. Many of the projects support flexible infrastructures that are capable of future iterations and uses, encouraging sustainability and longevity in the building industry.
The office has a collective competence with experience in all phases of the building process – from concept to finished building – including BIM-management on a larger scale.
In 2018 they became the elected ‘Architect of the Year’ by Residence magazine and in the same year a monographic issue was published about Arrhov Frick by 2G International Architectural Magazine – the first Nordic architectural office. The office has been nominated for European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.
Arrhov Frick frequently lectures and teaches throughout the world and their work is widely published and exhibited internationally.

Jon Lopez

OMMX build, draw and write about architecture. We believe that architecture gives form to our collective desire to understand and express who we all are. It can construct intimate portraits of different communities, from individuals and families, to companies, landscapes, cities and nations. OMMX is committed to this biographical process, to creating spaces that we can relate to and that help us relate to one another.
The directors, Hikaru Nissanke and Jon Lopez, studied at Cambridge University and the Architectural Association and have taught at Cambridge, UCL and Central St Martins. Their teaching has focussed on how technology is disrupting the status quo and shaping our lives. They examine the common misconceptions, aspirational hangovers, accepted norms and prevailing orthodoxies that render individuals and societies impotent to enact meaningful change.

Juan Herreros

Juan Herreros, PhD M.Arch, Chair Professor of Architectural Desig at the Madrid School of Architecture and Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia GSAPP. He has previously taught at Princeton University, Architectural Association-London, EPF-Lausanne, IIT-Chicago and Other schools in Slovenia, Finland and Spain. Throughout the years he has held numerous lectures, courses and international seminars as well as research workshops and published a significant number of books, texts and interviews. His office estudioHerreros is conceived as a collective platform through which he pursues his professional, pedagogical and research activity. His theoretical work is focused in the re-definition of the contemporary architectural practice and its dialogue with other disciplines. His professional work has been displayed in individual and collective exhibitions from MoMA to Venice Biennial and widely published and awarded. estudioHerreros is currently working in Spain, Norway, France, Morocco, Mexico, Uruguay and Switzerland and has completed more than fifty projects in Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, South Korea and Argentina. Juan Herreros holds the International Fellowship of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) among other distinctions.

Jürg Keller

Jürg Keller studied architecture at the ETH Zürich from 1997 to 2004.
In 2010 he opened his own office, after leading the project “House with one Wall” in Zurich-Witikon in the office of Christian Kerez from 2004 to 2006 and the “Residential Complex Grünwald (Ringling)” in Zurich-Höngg in the office Schneider Studer Primas from 2006 to 2009.
From 2009 to 2016 he taught architecture and design at the ETH Zürich.

Atelier Scheidegger Keller was founded in 2012.
The most important projects include “House with two Columns” in Wilen (2009-2014), “House on a Slope 1” in Gordola (2011-17) and the “Multi-family Houses Zwyssigstrasse” in Bern (2011-18).
Atelier Scheidegger Keller has received numerous awards for its project, 2015 the “Bauwelt-Award” and 2017 the “Concrete-Award” (Architekturpreis Beton 17) among others.

Madelon Vriesendorp

Madelon Vriesendorp was born in 1945 in Holland. In 1964 she studied in Amsterdam at the Rietveld Academy and later worked on the restoration of old frescoes and as a designer of stage costumes, books and jewellery. Five years later she enrolled at Central St. Martins School of Art in London. She exhibited her work at the Workshop and the Serpentine Gallery, among others.
In 1972 she moved to Ithaca and then New York with her husband, Rem Koolhaas. While in New York, Vriesendorp cofounded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Koolhaas, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. Paintings she produced at the time were used for book and magazine covers, notably on the cover of Delirious New York in 1978 by Rem Koolhaas. They were exhibited at the New York Guggenheim and Max Protetch galleries, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, Berlin’s Aedes Gallery and Gallery Ma in Tokyo among others.

Max Kahlen

Dyvik Kahlen is a London/Porto/Oslo based office established in 2010 by Christopher Dyvik and Max Kahlen operating across various scales and sectors in the UK, Holland, Germany and Norway, collaborating with clients ranging from public institutions and developers to artists, curators and private individuals.
Underlying our work is a desire for objects and spaces that are comfortable and strangely familiar, as much as a fascination for rational and neutral form. Our aspiration is to create good spaces that improve the quality of life of those who inhabit them, be it through a piece of furniture, a building or an urban plan.
We regularly contribute to the academic discourse as critics and lecturers for academic institutions in London and abroad. During the past years we have been running ADS5, a Postgraduate Master Course at The Royal College of Art.

Michael Meredith

MOS is a New York–based architecture studio, founded by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2005. The studio has built projects internationally, with a focus on educational facilities, the arts, campus planning, housing, and private houses. MOS is committed to realizing architecture that is as innovative as it is pragmatic and responsible. Projects typically begin researching generic building types and vernacular construction along with the fundamental requirements of a project. Sensitive to materials and performance, work integrates building form and function.
MOS was the recipient of the 2020 USA Artist Fellowship, the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, and the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award. Individual works have similarly received numerous awards and distinctions. Recent work includes: House No. 10, a private residence in Upstate New York; an all-aluminum open-air school for children in Versailles, France; the Laboratorio de Vivienda, a 9-acre master plan and welcome center in Apan, Mexico; House No. 15 (House with Two Chimneys), part of a collaborative master plan for the Pulitzer Foundation; and ongoing affordable housing in Washington, D.C.
Recent and forthcoming publications, both products of and surveys on MOS’s work, include Selected Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016); El Croquis No. 184 (2016); An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture (MIT Press, 2019); Houses for Sale (CCA/Corraini, 2020); and 2G (2021).

Mónica Rivera

Mónica Rivera was born in Puerto Rico in 1972. In 1999 she received a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD Scholarship). She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993 and a Bachelor of Architecture in 1994 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Scholarship). She worked for the firm Architecture Research Office (ARO) in New York for three years.
In Barcelona, where she has been living since 1999, she worked for the Editorial Gustavo Gili from 2000 to 2004. She has been a guest Professor of architecture at the ESARQ, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya from 1999 to 2002, Professor of third year Interior Design Studio focusing on domestic space at Elisava Escola de Disseny, Barcelona from 2001 to 2008, the Eugene McDermott Centennial Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin in 2017 and Visiting Professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis from 2015 to 2017.
She is currently Professor and Chair of Graduate Architecture in the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nicolas Dorval-Bory

Nicolas Dorval-Bory (1980) graduated from the ENSA Paris Val de Seine in 2007. Nicolas trained with Andrée Putman and Laurent Deroo before founding his office in Paris in 2008. After collaborations in Chile and Argentina (2009-2010), the office NICOLAS DORVAL-BORY ARCHITECTES operates today in a wide range of scales in France and abroad. In 2016, it has been awarded with the national AJAP prize, from the french Ministère de la Culture, an important biennial recognition for young architects.
Nicolas Dorval-Bory has been teaching, notably alongside Philippe Rahm, at the the ENSA Versailles since 2014 and previously at the ENSA Normandy (2011-2014).

Sebastian Skovsted

Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is founded by the two architects, Søren Johansen (b.1981) and Sebastian Skovsted (b.1982).
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is experienced in developing projects from the first sketch to the completed construction.
The office seeks to bridge the gap between contemporary building processes and materials, and basic architectural values, through a synthesis of ideas, techniques and manufacturing methods. The office sees structure as a lively part of the space it makes by placing and connecting components which are both readable and relatable and which strongly contribute to a particular spatial character.
The office works competently with building heritage as well as in protected natural environments and physical contexts that require delicate responses in both architecture and landscape.
Both Søren Johansen and Sebastian Skovsted have studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK). Sebastian Skovsted has furthermore conducted parts of his studies at TU Delft. In addition to their practice they teach at KADK at the Institute of Architecture and Technology.

Stéphanie Bru

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.

Søren Johansen

Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is founded by the two architects, Søren Johansen (b.1981) and Sebastian Skovsted (b.1982).
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is experienced in developing projects from the first sketch to the completed construction.
The office seeks to bridge the gap between contemporary building processes and materials, and basic architectural values, through a synthesis of ideas, techniques and manufacturing methods. The office sees structure as a lively part of the space it makes by placing and connecting components which are both readable and relatable and which strongly contribute to a particular spatial character.
The office works competently with building heritage as well as in protected natural environments and physical contexts that require delicate responses in both architecture and landscape.
Both Søren Johansen and Sebastian Skovsted have studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK). Sebastian Skovsted has furthermore conducted parts of his studies at TU Delft. In addition to their practice they teach at KADK at the Institute of Architecture and Technology.

Tiago Correia

Filipa Guerreiro and Tiago Correia (1976), architects (FAUP. 2000 + Erasmus IUAVeneza in 98/99). Tiago worked with João Álvaro Rocha (1999-2001) and Filipa with Álvaro Siza (1999-2000). Filipa teachs Projecto in FAUP where he defended his doctoral thesis “Portuguese Agricultural Colonies built by the Internal Colonization Board between 1936 and 1960. The house, the settlement and the territory”.
In 2008 created the Atelier da Bouça, but they’ve been working together since 1998. From their works, most of them the result of a public competition, they highlight EPRAMI Professional School (Young Architect Award, 04/05 CVG) and EBI grammar school (selected to Habitar Portugal 2003-2005) both in Paredes de Coura, the environmental centres of Matosinhos (selected to Habitar Portugal 2000-2002) and of Protected Landscape the Corno de Bico (selected to Habitar Portugal 2006-2008, FAD finalist in 2008 and named Mies Award 2009) and Bouça das Cardosas Houses (selected to Habitar Portugal 2012-2014, named Mies Award 2015.
In 2007 they integrated the selection ‘ 44 Young International Architects ‘ / Architecture Plus (Grupo Via, Barcelona). In 2008, Atelier da Bouça was selected for the nº 128 of the magazine ‘Arquitectura Viva’ under the title ‘ EMERGENT Twenty Emerging Teams ‘.

Tony Fretton

Tony Fretton is a principal of Tony Fretton Architects with James McKinney and David Owen. Buildings designed and realised by the practice include the Lisson Gallery London, Red House Chelsea, Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in Denmark, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize and the new British Embassy in Warsaw, Solid 11, a multi-purpose building in Amsterdam and most recently two apartment towers in Antwerp Harbour and the City Hall of Deinze in Belgium.
Fretton was Chair of Architectural Design-Interiors at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands (1999-2013) and visiting professor at the following institutions: Graduate School of Design, Harvard (2005-2006),
ETH Zurich in (2011-2012), Oslo School of Architecture (2015-16), University of Navarre Spain (2016), ETSAB Barcelona( 2017-2018).
Currently, he is Master of Diploma Unit 2 at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Met and visiting professor at the University of East London. Tony Fretton is a trustee of Docomomo London. His sketch books are in the archive of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and project models and drawings by the practice are in the Drawing Matter Trust collection.

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

Elói Gonçalves

Fanny Noël

(Since 2023) Teaching assistant at Studio Clancy Moore, Aam Mendrisio; (2019–20) Teaching assistant at Studio Conen Sigl, Epf Lausanne; (2019) Founded Cabinet, Geneva; (2017–19) Associate at Jaccaud + Associés, Geneva; (2010–16) Architect at Jaccaud+Associés, London and Geneva; (2009–10) Intern at Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, Chile; (2009) Master in architecture, Eavt Paris-Est, France

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

Lera Samovich

Marcos Veiga

Margarida Marques

Nuno Reis Pereira

Nuno Reis Pereira (1992) is an architect based in Porto. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in 2017 and has worked with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and with Paulo Providência in Porto. Since 2020 he runs his own practice, developing projects that range from housing to temporary installations.

Pedro Stattmiller

Architect graduated from FAUP (Porto) in 2015, including an exchange program at PUC in Santiago, Chile. He began his career at Alejandro Aravena’s ELEMENTAL and later contributed to landmark projects in Porto, including the renovation of Cinema Batalha (ATELIER 15) and the Ventura Terra Student Residence (Barata Arquitectos). As part of his involvement with Porto Academy, he was workshop assistant to Frida Escobedo, Leopold Banchini and Clancy Moore. Since 2022, he has been based in Lausanne (Switzerland), where he is part of the team leading the expansion and modernization of the city’s main railway station (Rivier architectes + AREP Suisse). Beyond practice, he is deeply engaged in the intersections between architecture and all other forms of art, with a particular focus on writing as a central part of his creative vision.

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.

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.

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