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

Bêka & Lemoine

Bêka & Lemoine have stood out on the international architectural scene for almost 20 years through a cinematographic work known for its innovative nature and its tender and biting humour, which has disrupted the usual representation of contemporary architecture by putting people and uses at the forefront. A project which defeats the question of genre, by placing itself at the edges of the documentary and video art, through a singular and highly subjective style.
Thanks to an authentic artistic perspective on architecture, Bêka & Lemoine open new horizons to the relationship between architecture and cinema. Bêka & Lemoine are regularly invited to lecture and teach in some of the most important universities: GSD / Harvard University (USA), GSAPP Columbia University (New-York, USA), Mendrisio (Switzerland) and HEAD (Switzerland). They thaught the design Studio Diploma 16 (M.Arch.) at the Architectural Association School in London from 2019 until 2021. In 2018 they have been laureates of Villa Kujoyama, French residency program for artists in Japan, and Ila Bêka has been laureate Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Clancy Moore

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

David Kohn

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

DF_DC

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

Diogo Aguiar Studio

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

Jo Taillieu

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

M-AO

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

Salottobuono

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

Selgas Cano

Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano established SelgasCano in Madrid, Spain, in 1998. Both born in Madrid in 1965, Selgas and Cano studied Architecture at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and graduated in 1992.
Selgas worked with Francesco Venecia in Naples, winning the Rome Prize from the Academia Española de Bellas Artes de Roma in 1997-1998. Cano worked with renowned Spanish architect Julio Cano Lasso and was a member of the studio until 2001.
SelgasCano studio has completed the majority of its buildings in Spain through a diverse range of commissions, including Silicon House, Madrid; El ‘B’ Cartagena Auditorium and Congress Centre, Cartagena; Office in the Woods, Madrid; Merida Factory Youth Movement, Merida; and Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Centre, Caceres. The architects’ international work includes the City Administration Building, Stockholm, and they are currently working on a number of projects worldwide, including ‘Pip’ House, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles; the Renovation of Texas Square in Oranjestad, Aruba, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea; and ‘La Canaria’ House, Mount Washington, Los Angeles. SelgasCano’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; GA Gallery, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Design Museum, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. In 2012 the architects exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, as part of SPAINLab. In 2013 they won the Kunstpreis (Art prize) awarded by the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin and were pronounced ‘Architects of the Year’ by the German Design Council in Munich. In 2015, they designed the 15th annual Serpentine Pavilion in London.

Walder Nickisch

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

WOJR

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

Andrew Clancy

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

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

Colm Moore

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

Dario Franchini

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

David Kohn

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

Diego Calderon

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

Diogo Aguiar

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

Georg Nickisch

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

Ila Bêka

Bêka & Lemoine have stood out on the international architectural scene for almost 20 years through a cinematographic work known for its innovative nature and its tender and biting humour, which has disrupted the usual representation of contemporary architecture by putting people and uses at the forefront. A project which defeats the question of genre, by placing itself at the edges of the documentary and video art, through a singular and highly subjective style. Thanks to an authentic artistic perspective on architecture, Bêka & Lemoine open new horizons to the relationship between architecture and cinema.
Bêka & Lemoine are regularly invited to lecture and teach in some of the most important universities: GSD / Harvard University (USA), GSAPP Columbia University (New-York, USA), Mendrisio (Switzerland) and HEAD (Switzerland). They thaught the design Studio Diploma 16 (M.Arch.) at the Architectural Association School in London from 2019 until 2021. In 2018 they have been laureates of Villa Kujoyama, French residency program for artists in Japan, and Ila Bêka has been laureate Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Jo Taillieu

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

Jose Selgas

Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano established SelgasCano in Madrid, Spain, in 1998. Both born in Madrid in 1965, Selgas and Cano studied Architecture at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and graduated in 1992. Selgas worked with Francesco Venecia in Naples, winning the Rome Prize from the Academia Española de Bellas Artes de Roma in 1997-1998. Cano worked with renowned Spanish architect Julio Cano Lasso and was a member of the studio until 2001.
SelgasCano studio has completed the majority of its buildings in Spain through a diverse range of commissions, including Silicon House, Madrid; El ‘B’ Cartagena Auditorium and Congress Centre, Cartagena; Office in the Woods, Madrid; Merida Factory Youth Movement, Merida; and Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Centre, Caceres. The architects’ international work includes the City Administration Building, Stockholm, and they are currently working on a number of projects worldwide, including ‘Pip’ House, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles; the Renovation of Texas Square in Oranjestad, Aruba, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea; and ‘La Canaria’ House, Mount Washington, Los Angeles. SelgasCano’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; GA Gallery, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Design Museum, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. In 2012 the architects exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, as part of SPAINLab. In 2013 they won the Kunstpreis (Art prize) awarded by the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin and were pronounced ‘Architects of the Year’ by the German Design Council in Munich. In 2015, they designed the 15th annual Serpentine Pavilion in London.

José Martins

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

Louise Lemoine

Bêka & Lemoine have stood out on the international architectural scene for almost 20 years through a cinematographic work known for its innovative nature and its tender and biting humour, which has disrupted the usual representation of contemporary architecture by putting people and uses at the forefront. A project which defeats the question of genre, by placing itself at the edges of the documentary and video art, through a singular and highly subjective style. Thanks to an authentic artistic perspective on architecture, Bêka & Lemoine open new horizons to the relationship between architecture and cinema.
Bêka & Lemoine are regularly invited to lecture and teach in some of the most important universities: GSD / Harvard University (USA), GSAPP Columbia University (New-York, USA), Mendrisio (Switzerland) and HEAD (Switzerland). They thaught the design Studio Diploma 16 (M.Arch.) at the Architectural Association School in London from 2019 until 2021. In 2018 they have been laureates of Villa Kujoyama, French residency program for artists in Japan, and Ila Bêka has been laureate Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Lucía Cano

Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano established SelgasCano in Madrid, Spain, in 1998. Both born in Madrid in 1965, Selgas and Cano studied Architecture at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and graduated in 1992. Selgas worked with Francesco Venecia in Naples, winning the Rome Prize from the Academia Española de Bellas Artes de Roma in 1997-1998. Cano worked with renowned Spanish architect Julio Cano Lasso and was a member of the studio until 2001. SelgasCano studio has completed the majority of its buildings in Spain through a diverse range of commissions, including Silicon House, Madrid; El ‘B’ Cartagena Auditorium and Congress Centre, Cartagena; Office in the Woods, Madrid; Merida Factory Youth Movement, Merida; and Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Centre, Caceres. The architects’ international work includes the City Administration Building, Stockholm, and they are currently working on a number of projects worldwide, including ‘Pip’ House, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles; the Renovation of Texas Square in Oranjestad, Aruba, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea; and ‘La Canaria’ House, Mount Washington, Los Angeles. SelgasCano’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; GA Gallery, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Design Museum, London; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. In 2012 the architects exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, as part of SPAINLab. In 2013 they won the Kunstpreis (Art prize) awarded by the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin and were pronounced ‘Architects of the Year’ by the German Design Council in Munich. In 2015, they designed the 15th annual Serpentine Pavilion in London.

Matteo Ghidoni

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

Selina Walder

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

William O’Brien

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

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.

António Mesquita

Antonio Mesquita has always been curious, a curiosity that has led him to join established international practices such as EM2N (2015) and ATP (2021), while at the same time exploring the freedom and agility of smaller studios such as DAM, which he co-founded in 2020, and EXPERIMENTAL, which he joined alongside Elói Gonçalves in 2024, after several years of partial collaboration.

The academic environment has naturally been part of this ongoing exploration. In 2024, he led a studio at ISCTE with Elói Gonçalves and Filipe Magalhães, and has delivered lectures and/or critiques at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (FAUL), and ETH Zürich. He also participated in several editions of Porto Academy between 2022 and 2024.

Alongside his architectural practice, he has been developing a photographic research project titled SUPERMODELS/SUPERNORMALS. Part of it was exhibited for the first time at Schallfenster in Zürich in 2024.

Carolina Catarino Gomes

David Wasel

Diana Santos

Duarte Nuno Miranda

Francisca Alexandre

Hanna Albrecht 

João Manarte

Julia Berger

Ludwig Müller

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.

Maribel Sengewald

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.

Onur Özman

Onur Özman (b. 1988, Antalya) is a Swiss-Turkish architect and electronic music producer based in Zürich, leading his own architecture practice 0101 since 2014.His practice 0101 treats regulations with a spirit of hacker – reinterpreting and bending legal frameworks to unlock new spatial, social, and cultural possibilities. His method embraces instability and transformation, positioning architecture as a continuous negotiation between order and chaos, structure and freedom.He studied architecture at YTU Istanbul and ZHAW Winterthur, later expanding into sound and perception with a degree in Electroacoustic Composition at ZHdK Zürich. Educated in these diverse contexts, and having collaborated with Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris, Özman’s projects range from cultural and educational buildings to visionary urban studies, many of which have been recognized in competitions.
Parallel to practice, he contributes to academia and discourse, lecturing at ISCTE Lisbon and teaching at Porto Academy with Studio BAST and Studio DF–DC. His reflections on architecture as a negotiation between form, material, and meaning have been published in TEC21 and Hochparterre.

Ottavia Sigristo

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.

Samuele Bertoni 

Samuele Bertoni is a Zurich-based architect, he obtained an MAS from the University of Ferrara and studied at Faup in Porto.

After working for Nuno Brandão Costa Arquitectos in Porto and Arquitectura G in Barcelona he’s currently working at E2A in Zurich.

He collaborated as an assistant in several academic workshops at the Porto Academy with studios including Salottobuono, Fondamenta and Daryan Knoblauch. In 2024, his project “Gypsotechno” (in collaboration with HPO Collective) was selected for the Swiss Biennale of Territory in Lugano.

Simone Fagini

Thomas Goldschmidt

Thomas Goldschmidt is an architect and teacher based in Paris. He studied at the School of Paris-la-Villette and the Department of Architecture (DARQ) at the University of Coimbra. After several collaborations with architectural practices in Paris and Porto, he founded GHAR with Thibaud Herent in 2024. The studio explores the diversity of ordinary forms, the richness of domestic spaces and the potential of new ways of building. He taught at the School of Architecture of Normandie from 2019 to 2024 and is currently teaching at the School of Paris-la-Villette.

Actar

The publishing house ACTAR was founded in 1993 in Barcelona with the objective of publishing titles that are a representative demonstration of the most influential practice and theory of established and emerging architects, designers and thinkers of contemporary culture. Consequently, ACTAR’S publishing program has become known internationally for disseminating the most innovative and risky works in the ambit of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism.

In 2015 ACTAR founded and launched URBANNEXT.NET, a digital platform that allows for the creation and diffusion of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and related technologies linked to the urbanized environment content. For this purpose, URBANNEXT uses digital media tools such as audiovisuals, hypertext, animations, and interactive platforms, enlarging its audience globally. All these tools have enabled URBANNEXT to become a recognized platform which is accessible to disciplines other than only architecture and building. URBANNEXT thus emerges as the logical evolution of publishers who are committed to the challenges that the urbanized environment needs to address on a global scale.

The URBANNEXT project arises as the logical evolution of the classical publishing business accomplished to date by the company ACTAR D, Inc. — a publishing house and distributor of architecture and design books in New York and Barcelona. Besides the website urbanNext.net, part of URBANNEXT’s business consists on the organization of public events such as cycles of conferences, congresses, expositions, documentaries and the edition of printed and digital publications.

Archdaily

ArchDaily is the world’s most-visited architecture platform, founded by architects in 2008 to provide inspiration, knowledge, and tools for architects, designers, and the public to create better built environments. The platform features a vast collection of project showcases, architectural news, product information, interviews, competitions, and opinion pieces, aiming to empower the global architecture community and help shape more sustainable and human-centric cities.

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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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.