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

Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky was born to the family of artist Savva Brodsky in 1955 in Moscow.
Studied in Moscow Arts School in 1968-69
Entered Moscow Architectural Institute in 1972, graduated 1978
Between 1978-1993 worked together with Ilya Utkin on numerous interiors, projects and installations for international competitions and exhibitions.
Between 1993-2000 he was doing graphics, sculpture and installations. His works are held in many museums and private collections.
In 2000 founded his own architectural practice Bureau “Alexander Brodsky”, which he runs to present date.
Taught in Moscow architectural school MARCH 2013, 2017
Teaches in ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2017-present
Lives and works in Moscow.

André Tavares

André Tavares (Porto, 1976) is an architect and holds a doctorate from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto. Since 2006 has been founding director of Dafne Editora, an independent publishing house based in Porto. With Diogo Seixas Lopes he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Jornal Arquitectos (2013-2015) and in 2016 chief cocurator of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Form of Form. His book The Anatomy of the Architectural Book (Lars Müller/Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2016) addresses the crossovers between book culture and building culture. He was a research fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture of the ETH Zurich, where he wrote his last book Vitruvius Without Text (gta Verlag, 2022). Currently he is a researcher at Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto, visiting Professor at EAVT Marne-la-Vallée Université Paris-Est, and consultant for architecture exhibitions at Garagem Sul of Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon. He is the principal investigator of the project Fishing Architecture funded through a European Research Council consolidator grant.

Buchner Bründler

Architecture by Buchner Bründler is distinguished by a dialogue with the place. Buildings respond to context and extend it by developing existing structures further. The Volta Zentrum – a residential and commercial building – for instance revitalised a part of the city through its polymorphism induced by the urban environment. The Hotel Nomad endows an historic facade with an imposing presence. Respect for an ancient farmhouse in Linescio resulted in a house within a house. In the case of the extension of the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, an assertive construction actually softens its impact on the existing building stock by commencing below ground.
Buchner Bründler architecture is not subject to a recurrent formalism, because every project develops its own identity. This also applies to the numerous smaller residential buildings. These works are an area of experimentation: exploring the suspenseful relation between intimacy and opening of the facade, while incorporating the needs of the client in the design – as in the Lörrach House or the Bläsiring House.
What unites the architecture created is the method or approach to building. This includes conceptual work on spatial programmes, clearly articulated craftsmanship and a conscious implementation of materiality. The quest for honesty with regard to material often leads to utilisation of archaic-looking raw concrete, which creates a feeling of security through its atmospheric density and intensity.

Didier Fiuza Faustino

Didier Fiúza Faustino is an architect and artist working on body and space through subversion of systems.
Established in Paris since 2001 and Lisbon since 2016, he is developing a multi-faceted approach, tanging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture and buildings.

Flores Prats

Established in 1998 by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats, Flores & Prats combine design and constructive practice with intense academic activity. After their experience at Enric Miralles’ studio, Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats developed a career where research is always linked to the responsibility to make and build, giving importance to the possibilities of public interpretations and critical views that the built work reveals as part of this research process.
Their projects, most of which are the result of open competitions, have investigated fields such as rehabilitation and reuse of abandoned or ruined constructions, social housing and its capacity to build community, or urban public spaces with neighbourhood participation. The office has also developed mobile or portable projects, has experimented with the use of film to document architecture, and with menus of edible architecture such as those developed for the exhibitions of its work in Barcelona and Copenhagen.

Jan Kinsbergen

After studying architecture at ETH Zurich, Jan Kinsbergen worked first with Hans Kollhoff. In 1993, he moved to New York City for work. He worked at Steven Holl’s architecture firm until 1999. Then he founded his own architecture firm, also in New York. During this period, Jan Kinsbergen taught architecture as a visiting lecturer at Columbia GSAPP University in New York. From 2002 to 2008 he was a faculty member at ETH Zurich. Since 2002 he has been managing the Jan Kinsbergen Architekt in Zurich, Switzerland.

Kosmos

KOSMOS is an architectural practice with offices in Zürich and Graz, which collaborates virtually across the borders. The office realizes projects of diverse scales: from a door handle to a city plan; and of different types: from art installations and pavilions to big public, residential, cultural and infrastructural buildings. KOSMOS combines art and technology; experience learned at the best international practices with attention to local specificities and resources; professionalism with drive.
The diversity of geographical contexts, collaborations, and building typologies on which the office works allows KOSMOS to rethink the conventional approach to design and propose novel, non-typical solutions in both practical work and research activities.

LCLA

LCLA OFFICE works with architecture and landscape architecture. The studio is based in Oslo led by architects Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson.
LCLA office’s director Luis Callejas is a professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and visiting professor at Harvard University Graduate School of design
In 2020 they were the Louis Kahn visiting assistant professors at the Yale school of architecture.
Completed works include the aquatic centre for the XI South American games, an open air complex of competition swimming pools in Medellin, and the renovation of “El Campin”, the main futbol stadium in Colombia
Currently the studio develops the landscape for the restoration of the former US embassy designed by Eero Saarinen in Oslo. In 2022 LCLA office was chosen among 81 studios to develop future projects for the Norwegian Scenic Routes. Recently the office has developed different public and private projects Norway, France and Colombia.
Since 2008 LCLA office has received diverse recognitions in twenty design competitions and their works exhibited recently at the first Chicago Architecture biennial, 2018 and 2021 Venice biennials, the 2016 Lisbon triennial and the 2016 Oslo Architecture triennial. Recently some the studio’s works were acquired by the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Callejas is the author of Pamphlet Architecture 33 (Princeton Architectural Press, NY). The competition for PA33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design and research in the field today.

Leopold Banchini

Leopold Banchini Architects produces works ranging from small self-built installations to large scale public space projects. It has built for a multitude of cultural institutions such as the Musée du quai Branly, the Centre Pompidou, MOT Tokyo, the Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, Swissnex San Francisco, the Ministry of Culture of Bahrain, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Recyclart Bruxelles, BIG biennale Geneva or the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa. Recently completed projects include public buildings (House of Architectural Heritage in Muharaq, with Noura Al Sayeh), private houses (Villa CCFF in Geneva, Panorama Suburbia in Hermance, Casa Terras do Monte and Casa Terreirinho in Lisbon) and interiors (Shelter inflatable bar, Centre Pompidou 3-8 project).
Leopold Banchini Architects has gained a wide recognition through a number of prices and publications. Amongst other, it was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Architectural Biennale (with Harry Gugger), the Swiss Art Awards and the first price for the CEVA Champel public space competition. Its work has been presented at the Swiss Architecture Museum, Art Basel Design at Large, CCB Lisbon, Victoria and Albert Museum, MUDAC Lausanne, etc. Its projects have been published in the most renowned design blogs and a wide number of international paper publications.
Leopold Banchini Architects invests widely in research, cultural exchanges and knowledge transmission. It has conducted numerous workshops, debates and lectures worldwide. Leopold Banchini has been teaching at the HEAD Geneva and the Swiss federal institute of technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and is currently the head of the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
Leopold Banchini and Daniel Zamarbide worked together under the name BUREAU A until 2016.

Mary Duggan

Mary Duggan BA(Hons) Dip Arch RIBA RIAI, founding director of Mary Duggan Architects, graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 1997 and was a founding director of
Duggan Morris Architects from 2004-2017.
During her directorship at Duggan Morris Architects the practice attained numerous industry awards for design excellence, including ten RIBA National and Regional Awards, three Civic Trust Awards, three nominations for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Award), The Stephen Lawrence Prize, The Manser Medal, and achieved consideration for the RIBA Stirling Prize on three separate occasions. The work of Duggan Morris Architects has been published in many international journals including The Architectural Review, Domus, Detail and Baumeister; and nationally, The Architects’ Journal, Architecture Today, and The RIBA Journal.
Mary is currently on the London Borough of Camden’s Design Review Panel and has served on many other design review panels for governing authorities including the RIBA Education Committee, the RIBA International, National and Regional Awards Panel and has judged the Stephen Lawrence Prize, the Manser Medal, the RIBA Bronze Medal.
Mary is currently teaching at Kingston Univesity and has been involved in teaching and examining at numerous universities including Brighton University, Oxford Brookes University, Bartlett School of Architecture and Univesitat de Girona and has lectured widely on the work of the practice.
Mary Duggan Architects is concerned with the experiential and material qualities of architecture, constantly reaching out for new motivations to change the field of influence; to invigorate and give spirit to the studio dynamics working methods and expression.
Mary has had work published in numerous architectural journals including The Architectural Review, the Architects’ Journal, Architecture Today and OASE Journal.

Norell Rodhe

Norell/Rodhe is an architecture studio founded by Daniel Norell and Einar Rodhe. The studio views architecture as a cultural practice, and each project seeks to unfold narratives and enter into conversations with the city and its inhabitants. Their work ranges from competition winning schemes for cultural buildings and landscapes, to interiors and installations.
Completed projects include a conversion of an historical navy building for the Royal Institute of Art on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. The studio frequently participates in publications and exhibitions and their work has been included in group shows at Aedes Architecture Forum, ArkDes, Bildmuseet, the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, the 2018 and 2023 Venice Architecture Biennales, and at Yale University School of Architecture. Norell/Rodhe teaches, lectures and pursues research in Sweden as well as internationally.

Nuno Melo Sousa

Nuno Melo Sousa, 1988. Studied at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto. Erasmus at TUdelft -bouwkunde, The Netherlands. Exchange program at Balkrishna Doshi’s International Studio in Sangath, Ahmedabad, India. Collaborated at atelier [A] ainda arquitectura and with Nuno Brandão Costa.
Adjunct professor at INDA – Faculty of Architecture of the Chulalongkorn University- Bangkok, Thailand, between 2015 and 2017, teaching studios from year one to year four. Has conducted his year 4 studio, with field trips to Tokyo, Japan and Sydney, Australia.
Teaching year one design – Projecto I as an invited professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto – FAUP, from 2020.
Since 2012, his practice focuses on a local exchange between craftsmanship and peculiar and close relationships with clients, aiming to be as site specific as disruptive in the act of (un)building. Published in Casabella, A10, on diseño, among other online publications such as Dezeen, Archello, Archdaily and Designboom. Casa no Tâmega was awarded with a special mention from the jury for the 2021’s FAD architecture prize and the Proposal for the expansion of Sverre Fehn’s Domkirkeodden competition in Hamar, Norway, was shortlisted.
Has lectured and guest critique in schools as Mendrisio School of Architecture’s Atelier Olgiati – Patrícia Silva studio, Toronto School of Architecture, UNAB Santiago do Chile, DARQ Coimbra, FAUP and ISCTE Lisbon. Was Tutor at the international Porto Academy 2021 architecture workshop and the ESAD Porto Design Biennale Petite Follies 2021 building workshop.
His drawings have been exhibited in galleries in Penafiel, Porto, Lisbon and is currently preparing an exhibition in Faro.

Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky was born to the family of artist Savva Brodsky in 1955 in Moscow.
Studied in Moscow Arts School in 1968-69
Entered Moscow Architectural Institute in 1972, graduated 1978
Between 1978-1993 worked together with Ilya Utkin on numerous interiors, projects and installations for international competitions and exhibitions.
Between 1993-2000 he was doing graphics, sculpture and installations. His works are held in many museums and private collections.
In 2000 founded his own architectural practice Bureau “Alexander Brodsky”, which he runs to present date.
Taught in Moscow architectural school MARCH 2013, 2017
Teaches in ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2017-present
Lives and works in Moscow.

Andreas Bründler

The architect Andreas Bründler studied architecture at the Basel School of Engineering from 1989 to 1993 after completing an apprenticeship as a structural draftsman. After first years of working in the architectural office Miller & Maranta, he founded the office Buchner Bründler Architekten together with Daniel Buchner in 1997. In 2003 he was admitted to the Swiss Architects Association, and in 2005 and 2006 he was a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). From 2010 to 2012 he held a guest lectureship in the field of design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). The work of Buchner Bründler Architects has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Beton 13 architecture prize and the Arc Award 18 for the Stadterle residential building in Basel. Andreas Bründler has been a member of the urban development advisory board of the city of Basel since 2018. He has just taken up a guest professorship at the Master’s program of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.

André Tavares

André Tavares (Porto, 1976) is an architect and holds a doctorate from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto. Since 2006 has been founding director of Dafne Editora, an independent publishing house based in Porto. With Diogo Seixas Lopes he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Jornal Arquitectos (2013-2015) and in 2016 chief cocurator of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Form of Form. His book The Anatomy of the Architectural Book (Lars Müller/Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2016) addresses the crossovers between book culture and building culture. He was a research fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture of the ETH Zurich, where he wrote his last book Vitruvius Without Text (gta Verlag, 2022). Currently he is a researcher at Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto, visiting Professor at EAVT Marne-la-Vallée Université Paris-Est, and consultant for architecture exhibitions at Garagem Sul of Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon. He is the principal investigator of the project Fishing Architecture funded through a European Research Council consolidator grant.

Artem Kitaev

Artem Kitaev, born in 1985 is an architect, architectural researcher and academic. He received architectural education in Moscow Architectural Institute and Moscow Academic Art Lyceum at the Academy of Arts. For more than 6 years Leonid has been a colaborator of Meganom Architects in Moscow and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel.
Artem is a founding partner of an award-winning office “KOSMOS Architects”. Among other prizes KOSMOS won “Prix de Genève” – Prize of Geneva in experimental architecture, got nominated to Swiss Art and Design Awards, received “Milano Archmarathon” award, Pro Helvetia prize for Swiss Pavilion for Prague Quadrennial and “Archiwood” Awards for the best public building in wood. Work of KOSMOS has been widely published
and exhibited, including Venice Biennale, American Institute of Architects and Swiss Architecture Museum.
KOSMOS designs and builds projects of diverse scales and types: from art installations and temporary pavilions to big public buildings such as sport centers, museums and airports, as well as masterplans and big
urban parks.
Besides practice, Artem is a professor, leading a design studio in TU Wien (Vienna Technological University), HEAD Genève (Geneva University of art and design), and MARCH (Moscow Architectural School). Artem has been invited as a workshop leader to Porto Academy, Strelka Institute of Architecture and Design, KarlsruheInstitute of Architecture, Kotor APSS, Hello Wood Hungary, University of Antwerpen, and previously led a design studio at Bangkok’s Royal Chulalongkorn University, INDA faculty.
Artem has been invited lecturer and critic at various institutions, including: ETH Zurich; Royal College of Arts, London; ETSAM Madrid; Mendrisio Academy of Architecture; Swiss Architecture Museum SAM Basel;
Strelka Institute; Lausanne forum of Architecture; CCA Canadian Center of Architecture, Montreal; Moscow Architecture Instititute (MARKHI); Milano Triennale; Venice Biennale and more.
Currently Artem lives in Graz.

Charlotte Hansson

LCLA OFFICE works with architecture and landscape architecture. The studio is based in Oslo led by Colombian architect Luis Callejas and Swedish / Norwegian architect Charlotte Hansson.
Charlotte Hansson’s experience in Scandinavia includes working at Space group, White Arkitekter and Alab.
In 2020 they were the Louis Kahn visiting assistant professors at the Yale school of architecture.
Completed works include the aquatic centre for the XI South American games, an open air complex of competition swimming pools in Medellin, and the renovation of “El Campin”, the main futbol stadium in Colombia
Currently the studio develops the landscape for the restoration of the former US embassy designed by Eero Saarien in Oslo. In 2022 LCLA office was chosen among 81 studios to develop future projects for the Norwegian Scenic Routes. Recently the office has developed different public and private projects Norway, France and Colombia.
The studio has been nominated to the EU Mies award for European architecture in 2021 and the Mies crown hall for architecture in the Americas in 2022 and 2014. LCLA office was awarded with the Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects in 2013 and selected as one of the world’s ten best young practices by the Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation in 2010. LCLA office was nominated again in 2012 and 2014.
Since 2008 LCLA office has received diverse recognitions in twenty design competitions and their works exhibited recently at the first Chicago Architecture biennial, 2018 and 2021 Venice biennials, the 2016 Lisbon triennial and the 2016 Oslo Architecture triennial. Recently some the studio’s works were acquired by the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Callejas is the author of Pamphlet Architecture 33 (Princeton Architectural Press, NY). The competition for PA33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design and research in the field today.

Daniel Norell

Norell/Rodhe is an architecture studio founded by Daniel Norell and Einar Rodhe. The studio views architecture as a cultural practice, and each project seeks to unfold narratives and enter into conversations with the city and its inhabitants. Their work ranges from competition winning schemes for cultural buildings and landscapes, to interiors and installations. Recently completed projects include a conversion of an historical navy building for the Royal Institute of Art on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. The studio frequently participates in publications and exhibitions and their work has recently been included in group shows at Bildmuseet, the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, Yale University School of Architecture, the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, and at ArkDes – Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design. Norell/Rodhe teaches, lectures and pursues research in Sweden as well as internationally.

Didier Fiuza Faustino

Didier Fiúza Faustino is an architect and artist working on body and space through subversion of systems.
Established in Paris since 2001 and Lisbon since 2016, he is developing a multi-faceted approach, tanging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture and buildings.

Einar Rodhe

Norell/Rodhe is an architecture studio founded by Daniel Norell and Einar Rodhe. The studio views architecture as a cultural practice, and each project seeks to unfold narratives and enter into conversations with the city and its inhabitants. Their work ranges from competition winning schemes for cultural buildings and landscapes, to interiors and installations. Recently completed projects include a conversion of an historical navy building for the Royal Institute of Art on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. The studio frequently participates in publications and exhibitions and their work has recently been included in group shows at Bildmuseet, the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, Yale University School of Architecture, the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, and at ArkDes – Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design. Norell/Rodhe teaches, lectures and pursues research in Sweden as well as internationally.

Jan Kinsbergen

After studying architecture at ETH Zurich, Jan Kinsbergen worked first with Hans Kollhoff. In 1993, he moved to New York City for work. He worked at Steven Holl’s architecture firm until 1999. Then he founded his own architecture firm, also in New York. During this period, Jan Kinsbergen taught architecture as a visiting lecturer at Columbia GSAPP University in New York. From 2002 to 2008 he was a faculty member at ETH Zurich. Since 2002 he has been managing the Jan Kinsbergen Architekt in Zurich, Switzerland.

Leonid Slonimskiy

Leonid Slonimskiy, born in 1987, is an architect, architectural researcher and academic. He received architectural education in Moscow Architectural Institute and Columbia University GSAPP in New York. For more than 6 years Leonid has been a colaborator of OMA*AMO in New York and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel.
Leonid is a founding partner of an award-winning office “KOSMOS Architects”. Among other prizes KOSMOS won “Prix de Genève” – Prize of Geneva in experimental architecture, got nominated to Swiss Art and Design Awards, received “Milano Archmarathon” award, Pro Helvetia prize for Swiss Pavilion for Prague Quadrennial and “Archiwood” Awards for the best public building in wood. Work of KOSMOS has been widely published and exhibited, including Venice Biennale, American Institute of Architects and Swiss Architecture Museum.
KOSMOS designs and builds projects of diverse scales and types: from art installations and temporary pavilions to big public buildings such as sport centers, museums and airports, as well as masterplans and big urban parks.
Besides practice, Leonid is a professor, leading a design studio in HEAD Genève (Geneva University of art and design), TU Wien (Vienna Technological University) and MARCH (Moscow Architectural School). Leonid has been invited as a workshop leader to Porto Academy, AA Visiting School Moscow, Karlsruhe institute of Architecture, Kotor APSS, Hello Wood Hungary, University of Antwerpen, and previously led a design studio at Bangkok’s Royal Chulalongkorn University, INDA faculty.
Leonid has been invited lecturer and critic at various institutions, including: ETH Zurich; Royal College of Arts, London; ETSAM Madrid; Mendrisio Academy of Architecture; Swiss Architecture Museum SAM Basel; Strelka Institute; Lausanne forum of Architecture; CCA Canadian Center of Architecture, Montreal; Moscow Architecture Instititute (MARKHI); Milano Triennale; Venice Biennale and more.
Currently Leonid lives in Zurich.
Built projects include: Nike Sports Center in Moscow; Airport lounge in Yekaterinburg; Airport lounge in Saratov; EMA Space – a renovation of former industrial territory into an Art Center; Pavilion for the Garage Center in Gorky Park; series of pavilions in Arles; a series of installations in Geneva; exhibition for V-A-C Foundation in MMOMA; exhibition in Swiss Architecture Museum; light pavilion in Moscow; street installation in front of New Museum in New York; different pavilions in Russia, Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic.
KOSMOS’ work expands to non-architectural projects as well, often collaborating with artists, photographers, designers, publishers and researchers. Research topics of the office range from the history of Kazimir Malevich grave to architecture of scaffoldings; from regulations of public spaces to relations between architecture and alcohol.
Work of KOSMOS was exhibited at Swiss Architecture Museum, Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo Biennale, Garage Museum of Art, Moscow Architecture Biennale, Swiss Art and Design awards 2017 and other institutions.
KOSMOS gave lectures in ETH Zürich, Mendrisio Academy, House of Architecture in Lugano, HEAD University Geneve, University of Antwerpen, New York New Museum, Museum of Electronic Art in Basel, Tallinn University; led workshops for AA Visiting School, University of Antwerpen, ‘Hello Wood’, Strelka Institute; taught studios in MARCHI, Moscow and INDA Institute, Bangkok. Currently KOSMOS lead a design studio in ‘HEAD University’ in Geneva.
Partners of KOSMOS are originally from Moscow, Russia; they received architectural education in Columbia University GSAPP in New York, Shibaura Institute in Tokyo and Moscow Architectural Institute. For more than 6 years they have been colaborators of OMA*AMO and SOM in New York and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel.

Leopold Banchini

Leopold Banchini Architects produces works ranging from small self-built installations to large scale public space projects. It has built for a multitude of cultural institutions such as the Musée du quai Branly, the Centre Pompidou, MOT Tokyo, the Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, Swissnex San Francisco, the Ministry of Culture of Bahrain, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Recyclart Bruxelles, BIG biennale Geneva or the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa. Recently completed projects include public buildings (House of Architectural Heritage in Muharaq, with Noura Al Sayeh), private houses (Villa CCFF in Geneva, Panorama Suburbia in Hermance, Casa Terras do Monte and Casa Terreirinho in Lisbon) and interiors (Shelter inflatable bar, Centre Pompidou 3-8 project).
Leopold Banchini Architects has gained a wide recognition through a number of prices and publications. Amongst other, it was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Architectural Biennale (with Harry Gugger), the Swiss Art Awards and the first price for the CEVA Champel public space competition. Its work has been presented at the Swiss Architecture Museum, Art Basel Design at Large, CCB Lisbon, Victoria and Albert Museum, MUDAC Lausanne, etc. Its projects have been published in the most renowned design blogs and a wide number of international paper publications.
Leopold Banchini Architects invests widely in research, cultural exchanges and knowledge transmission. It has conducted numerous workshops, debates and lectures worldwide. Leopold Banchini has been teaching at the HEAD Geneva and the Swiss federal institute of technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and is currently the head of the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
Leopold Banchini and Daniel Zamarbide worked together under the name BUREAU A until 2016.

Luis Callejas

LCLA OFFICE works with architecture and landscape architecture. The studio is based in Oslo led by Colombian architect Luis Callejas and Swedish / Norwegian architect Charlotte Hansson.
LCLA office’s director Luis Callejas has been faculty at Harvard University Graduate School of design from 2011 to 2016 and currently full professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and design
Charlotte Hansson’s experience in Scandinavia includes working at Space group, White Arkitekter and Alab.
In 2020 they were the Louis Kahn visiting assistant professors at the Yale school of architecture.
Completed works include the aquatic centre for the XI South American games, an open air complex of competition swimming pools in Medellin, and the renovation of “El Campin”, the main futbol stadium in Colombia
Currently the studio develops the landscape for the restoration of the former US embassy designed by Eero Saarien in Oslo. In 2022 LCLA office was chosen among 81 studios to develop future projects for the Norwegian Scenic Routes. Recently the office has developed different public and private projects Norway, France and Colombia.
The studio has been nominated to the EU Mies award for European architecture in 2021 and the Mies crown hall for architecture in the Americas in 2022 and 2014. LCLA office was awarded with the Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects in 2013 and selected as one of the world’s ten best young practices by the Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation in 2010. LCLA office was nominated again in 2012 and 2014.
In 2016 Callejas was one of the three finalists for the Rolex mentor and protege arts initiative.
Since 2008 LCLA office has received diverse recognitions in twenty design competitions and their works exhibited recently at the first Chicago Architecture biennial, 2018 and 2021 Venice biennials, the 2016 Lisbon triennial and the 2016 Oslo Architecture triennial. Recently some the studio’s works were acquired by the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Callejas is the author of Pamphlet Architecture 33 (Princeton Architectural Press, NY). The competition for PA33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design and research in the field today.

Mary Duggan

Mary Duggan BA(Hons) Dip Arch RIBA RIAI, founding director of Mary Duggan Architects, graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 1997 and was a founding director of
Duggan Morris Architects from 2004-2017.
During her directorship at Duggan Morris Architects the practice attained numerous industry awards for design excellence, including ten RIBA National and Regional Awards, three Civic Trust Awards, three nominations for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Award), The Stephen Lawrence Prize, The Manser Medal, and achieved consideration for the RIBA Stirling Prize on three separate occasions. The work of Duggan Morris Architects has been published in many international journals including The Architectural Review, Domus, Detail and Baumeister; and nationally, The Architects’ Journal, Architecture Today, and The RIBA Journal.
Mary is currently on the London Borough of Camden’s Design Review Panel and has served on many other design review panels for governing authorities including the RIBA Education Committee, the RIBA International, National and Regional Awards Panel and has judged the Stephen Lawrence Prize, the Manser Medal, the RIBA Bronze Medal.
Mary is currently teaching at Kingston Univesity and has been involved in teaching and examining at numerous universities including Brighton University, Oxford Brookes University, Bartlett School of Architecture and Univesitat de Girona and has lectured widely on the work of the practice.
Mary Duggan Architects is concerned with the experiential and material qualities of architecture, constantly reaching out for new motivations to change the field of influence; to invigorate and give spirit to the studio dynamics working methods and expression.
Mary has had work published in numerous architectural journals including The Architectural Review, the Architects’ Journal, Architecture Today and OASE Journal.

Nuno Melo Sousa

Nuno Melo Sousa, 1988.
Non-drummer and Architect.
Graduated from the Oporto School of Architecture – FAUP in 2011.
Also studied at TUdelft – bouwkunde and Balkrishna Doshi’s International Workshop in Ahmedabad, India.
Worked with [A] ainda arquitectura and Nuno Brandão Costa.
Established his own studio in 2012.
Adjunct Professor in Bangkok from 2015 to 2017, teaching his own Year 4 design studio at INDA – Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Currently teaching Projecto I at the Oporto School of Architecture – FAUP.

Ricardo Flores

Flores & Prats is an architectural office dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice with design and construction activity. They have worked in rehabilitation of old structures for new occupations, in the design of public spaces with neighbour’s participation, as well as in social housing and its capacity to create community.
The practice has won among others the Grand Award in Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts of London for the Mills Museum in Mallorca, the City of Barcelona Prize and the Special Mention at the Spanish National Awards for the Sala Beckett International Drama Centre and the City of Palma Prize for the Cultural Centre Casal Balaguer. It has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2005, 2015 and 2016, and exhibited at the last four editions of La Biennale di Venezia.
Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores are Professors at ETH Zurich, at the School of Architecture of Barcelona and the RMIT of Melbourne. They have directed design workshops in universi¬ties of the United States, South America, Europe and Australia.

Alice Clanet

Alice Clanet is an architect based in Porto and a principal at Clanet&Brito. Graduated from ENSA Paris-Malaquais in 2017, has previously worked at Dominique Perrault Architects.

Bene Wahlbrink

Bene Wahlbrink is an architect and researcher based in Berlin and Zürich. He holds a teaching position as Assistant Professor at TU Berlin, co-founded the Panta Rhei Collaborative, and is a member of Zurich International. In 2025, he founded the architectural practice A407 and currently leads the teaching and research program Voices of the City at the Institute of Architecture in Berlin.

Daniel Duarte Pereira

Diana Santos

Diego Inglez de Souza

Duarte Barbosa Pereira

Elói Gonçalves

Federico Farinatti

Federico Farinatti is a Zurich-based photographer with a background in architecture.

After graduating from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and working with various architecture firms, he devoted himself to photography, focusing on the documentation of built and unbuilt spaces. His work is characterised by precise framing, a deliberate process and the pursuit of multilayered visual narration. He collaborates with architects, academic institutions and artists in Switzerland and abroad. His work has been widely published and exhibited at Indievisuals AG, Photo Schweiz 23, F’AR Lausanne and the Rohde Island School of Design. In 2018 won First Prize in SIA’s 2018 Cultural Heritage photographic
competition.

In 2021 was teaching assistant with Jan Kinsbergen at Porto Academy Summer Schoo. Since 2023 he has been a teaching assistant at Maria Conen Chair for Architecture & Housing at ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture.

Jacob Hoeppner

Jacob Höppner is an architect based in Zurich. After graduating in architecture and urban planning from University of Stuttgart, he worked for Carmody Groarke in London and Lütjens Padmanabhan in Zurich. He led housing and cultural projects in Switzerland, Germany and the UK, among them the Grossmarkt Theatre Pavilion and the Wohnsiedlung Im Gut. He has taught at Porto Academy, University of Stuttgart and Yale University. He currently teaches with Visiting Professors Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan at ETH Zurich.

José Peixoto

Luís Pedro de Macedo

Luís Pedro de Macedo is a Portuguese architect and urban planner based in Zürich. He co-founded – ambar in 2023 with Duarte Barbosa Pereira, a practice committed to resource-sensitive and socially engaged projects that explore local craftsmanship, pre-fabrication, and circular approaches to building. Since 2021, he has taught at Porto Academy and has been invited as a guest critic at HFT Stuttgart. He previously worked with Caruso St. John Architects, Miroslav Šik, Knapkiewicz & Fickert, Mathias Klotz, and aNC Architects, and served as an Urban Planner for the United Nations in Africa. He is also a Board Member and European Chapter Director of MaSCA – Mathare Slums Community Association, supporting community-led initiatives in Nairobi’s Mathare slums.

Marcos Veiga

Maria João Cunha

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.

Vicente Nequinha

Vicente Nequinha is an architect based in Zurich. He studied at the EPFL and the University of Coimbra, graduating in 2016 with a master’s thesis entitled ‘Fernand Pouillon: Building and Dwelling in Algiers in the 1950s’. After gaining professional experience working for Caruso St John Architects, Fiechter & Salzmann Architekten, and BS+EMI Architektenpartner, he started his own practice in 2025. He actively contributes to various publications and exhibitions, and currently teaches a design studio at ETH Zurich.

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

Gyptec

Gyptec Ibérica, a portuguese company part of the Preceram Group, has been engaged in the production of laminated gypsum boards (also known as plasterboards), using clean and environmentally sustainable methods, since 2009
The Industrial and Business Cluster of Figueira da Foz, where Gyptec is located, is part of the most complete node of traffic distribution in the central region of Portugal, where the maritime, rail and road networks are all interconnected.
A pioneer in the production of gypsum boards in Portugal, Gyptec develops solutions, for construction and rehabilitation, resistant to fire, impact and humidity, with high thermal and acoustic performance.
Gyptec gypsum boards are rated A+ for indoor air quality. This qualification comes from the French regulations for emissions of volatile pollutants, with Category A+ being the best indoor air quality classification. Gyptec products are certified and internationally recognized for their excellent quality, being an essential presence in the main works of the entire Iberian Peninsula.

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.

Volcalis

Volcalis – Isolamentos Minerais, S.A. a Portuguese company owned by the Preceram Group, is dedicated to the production of mineral wool through an absolutely innovative and unique production process in Portugal.
Volcalis offers a wide range of high quality and ecological solutions to the market, contributing to the comfort and thermal and acoustic efficiency of the buildings, by using the best raw materials and the highest technologies with great efficiency and rigor.
This product of growing demand in the construction sector comes to increase the wide range of solutions offered by the Preceram Group companies and, more directly, to complement the gypsum board systems of Gyptec Ibérica.
The Volcalis factory is located in the center of Portugal and has easy access to maritime, rail and road networks. It is close to the port of Aveiro, which allows the shipment of large quantities of mineral wool all over the world.