Architecture School La Salle

La Salle Campus Barcelona, a founding member of the Ramon Llull University, is a university center of international prestige with more than a century of history that offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, Postgraduate, Doctorate and Specialization Courses in the areas of knowledge of Engineering, ICT and Computer Science; Architecture and Construction; Business and Management; Animation & VFX; Digital Arts; Health Engineering and Philosophy, with technology and humanism as essential elements of our DNA.
La Salle Campus Barcelona fosters the entrepreneurial spirit and innovation, betting on applied research and favoring constant interaction between students and companies. Faithful to our mission of training professionals with values capable of transforming society, we foster the development of students’ social and humanistic sensitivity and transversal collaborative work between areas of knowledge.

Adamo Faiden

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

Arquitectura-G

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

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.

Fondamenta

Milan-based FONDAMENTA was founded by Francesca Gagliardi and Federico Rossi. Strong is the belief in research and experimentation applied to construction where building is the end to which architecture must strive to become itself and technology the tool used to reach this result.
FONDAMENTA questions conventions and supports contradictions. Fascination for structure and freedom from dogma represent the premises for the research; Structure traces space, organizes the program and generates the building.
Governance of architecture through technology is believed to be the key to the creation of an organism.Technology drives efficiency, precision and control through the entire process. In 2019 the studio completed its first new building, the Winery of Monforte d’Alba, and is currently dealing with different scale projects, starting from a domestic infrastructure masterplan in Val di Noto, Sicily. Surrealism reigns supreme. FONDAMENTA believes in synergies between professional and academic worlds.
Invited to lecture and publish on several international institutions and platforms, starting from September 2022 FONDAMENTA will be teaching as academic guest at ETH – Zürich.

Harquitectes

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

Lopez Rivera

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

Maio

MAIO is an architectural office based in Barcelona that works on spatial systems that allow variation and change through time. MAIO’s projects embrace the changing complexity of everyday-life while providing a resilient, compromised and clear architectural response.
MAIO’s members combine professional activities with academic, research and editorial ones. They have been in charge of the magazine Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme (2011-16), and currently teach at ETH Zurich, the ETSAB/ETSAV (Barcelona), and Elisava – Escola de Disseny i Enginyeria.
MAIO has lectured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barbican Center, GSAPP-Columbia University, RIBA, UC Berkeley, Yale School of Architecture and Piet Zwart Institute among other places. MAIO’s work has been published in magazines such as Domus, AIT, Volume, Blueprint, A10 and Detail, and exhibited at the MOMA of New York, the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Art Institute of Chicago and Storefront for Art and Architecture. MAIO has participated at Venice Biennial 2016 in the Spanish Pavillion, awarded with the golden Lion, at Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015 & 2017 editions) and co-curated a Weekend Special at the Biennale di Venezia 2014 together with SPACE CAVIAR and DPR-Barcelona.
MAIO is run by Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López and Anna Puigjaner, who recently has been nominated finalist of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Initiative 2016 and awarded with the Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize.

Plan Común

Founded in 2012, Plan Común provides strategies to maximize and reinforce public and collective space -understood as a key aspect of architecture, regardless of its scale or program- by means of simple architecture tools, through a critical discourse, research, design and building. We are convinced that radical, basic -even silent- forms are more likely to be relevant and universal, and serve as a support for collective use and imagination.
We use a critical and strategic approach towards briefs and commissions, in order to question and transform spatial hierarchy and uses. We intend to work within an ethic of the collective aiming at relevance and usefulness for the many.

Point Supreme

Konstantinos Pantazis and Marianna Rentzou founded Point Supreme in Rotterdam in 2008 after living and working in Athens, London, Brussels, Tokyo and Rotterdam.
They often work with collaborators and have won 1st prize in various international competitions such as for a Social Housing in Trondheim, a Pier on the coast of Athens, a sheltered public space in Tel Aviv (built), a Firestation in Belgium (built), the New Architecture school in Marseille (built) and an Artists Centre in Genk (C-mine Atelier, built). They regularly publish self-initiated projects for Athens.
Their work has been exhibited at the Venice and Chigaco Biennale and the Lisbon Triennale and has been published in three books: ‘Athens Projects’, (Graham Foundation, 2015), ‘Radical Realities’ (Divisare, 2017) and a dedicated issue of a+u magazine (May 2023).
They have taught at architecture schools such as Columbia University in New York and EPFL in Lausanne. They were included among the 20 most influential personalities in Greece by popular Greek newspaper ‘LIFO’.

Waldrap

WALDRAP is a collaboration between Renate Walter and Sebastian Lippok. Its work is understood as an interpretation within the circumstances of the contemporary world manipulating with all its complexity and contradiction, its relationship between program and context as never before.
WALDRAP attempts to bring these tense relationships into a stable, resistant but also beautiful state. From its point of view, no ideal aesthetic itself exists. Rather, the attempt to produce beauty is a social aspect in the context of the interacting human.

Aitor Fuentes

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

Anna Puigjaner

MAIO is an architectural office based in Barcelona that works on spatial systems that allow variation and change through time. MAIO’s projects embrace the changing complexity of everyday-life while providing a resilient, compromised and clear architectural response.
MAIO’s members combine professional activities with academic, research and editorial ones. They have been in charge of the magazine Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme (2011-16), and currently teach at Columbia GSAPP (New York), the Architectural Association (London), the Escola d’Arquitectura de Barcelona ETSAB/ETSAV, and Elisava – Escola de Disseny i Enginyeria.
MAIO has lectured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barbican Center, GSAPP-Columbia University, RIBA, UC Berkeley, Yale School of Architecture and Piet Zwart Institute among other places. MAIO’s work has been published in magazines such as Domus, AIT, Volume, Blueprint, A10 and Detail, and exhibited at the MOMA of New York, the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Art Institute of Chicago and Storefront for Art and Architecture. Lately MAIO has participated at Venice Biennial 2016 in the Spanish Pavillion, awarded with the golden Lion, at Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015 & 2017 editions) and co-curated a Weekend Special at the Biennale di Venezia 2014 together with SPACE CAVIAR and DPR-Barcelona.
MAIO is run by Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López and Anna Puigjaner, who recently has been nominated finalist of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Initiative 2016 and awarded with the Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize.

Federico Rossi

Federico Rossi was born in 1987 Como, Italy.
He studied Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland and at KTH Stockholm, Sweden gaining his diploma in 2012. In 2012 co-founded OSA, Associazione Studenti Accademia Mendrisio and in 2013 he co-published the research ATLAS How we Learn to stop Worrying and Love the Tradition.
From 2013 to 2015 worked at Christian Kerez office, Zurich, CH being responsible of international Project. From 2015 to 2019 he has been Assistent for Christian Kerez Chair, at the first year and Master at ETH, Zurich, CH. In 2016 he co-founded FONDAMENTA.
In 2018 together with H.Killer he has been responsable for the Studio PROJECT BERLIN 200.000 Housing Units for Berlin, at ETH, Zurich and based in Berlin, Germany.
In 2019, together with J.Kacani, H. Killer, G. Ledermann he has been responsible of the Chair of Christian Kerez running his personal Studio STUDIO PANORAMA: 14 Views on Contemporary Architecture at ETH, Zurich, CH.
In 2022 it has been appointed Academic Guest at the ETH Zurich invited by Christian Kerez, running the Master design course: Studio Fondamenta: The Economomy of the project.

Felipe De Ferrari

Co-founder & partner of Plan Común.
Architect graduated from Universidad Católica de Chile in 2010. Co-editor of ‘CMNcasos’, a digital and printed publication by Chilean National Heritage Council, between 2011 and 2013. Co-founder of OnArchitecture, an online audiovisual on architecture and the built environment in 2012. He gave lectures at Barcelona Institute of Architecture (2009), Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (2011), X Sao Paulo Biennial (2014), Mendrisio Academy of Architecture (2014), Universidad de Talca (2014), Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016), Haus der Architektur Graz (2016), Universidad Mayor (2016), Centro de Estudios Públicos (2016), Swiss Architecture Museum (2016,2017), Universidad Católica de Chile (2018, 2021), University of Zagreb (2019), Bauhaus-Weimar University (2019), Universidad de Buenos Aires (2020), University of Newcastle (AU), Canadian Centre for Architecture (2020), KU Leuven (2021), TU Wien (2021-2022), Architectural Association (2022), to name a few.
He teached at PUC Architecture School (2014-2018) and at Universidad Mayor (2017). Coordinator of PUC Architecture School Public Program (2017-2018) and co-curator of Conference Program 2020-2022 by Lisbon Architecture Trienal and Garagem Sul | Exposições de Arquitetura, do Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB). Teaching at MARQ UC since 2020.

Francesca Gagliardi

Francesca Gagliardi was born in 1987 Milan, Italy. She studied Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland gaining her diploma in 2012. She worked for Aires Mateus in Lisbon – Portugal, Ensamble Studio – Anton Garcia Abril in Madrid – Spain, and Christian Kerez, Zurich – Switzerland. In 2016 she co-founded FONDAMENTA.
In 2022 it has been appointed Academic Guest at the ETH Zurich invited by Christian Kerez, running the Master design course: Studio Fondamenta: The Economomy of the project.

Kim Courrèges

Architect graduated from Marne-la-Vallée Architecture School (France) in 2010, Maitrise Mathematics and Computer Science, Paris 7 University (2005). She worked with Eric Lapierre (2010-2011) in Paris, Estudio America (2012) in Sao Paulo, Pezo von Ellrichshausen (2012-2013), Roberto Gutierrez (2013-2014) and Elemental (2014-2015) in Chile. She gave lectures at the Swiss Architecture Museum (2016), UC Architecture School (2018), REA Summer School in Ghent, Kolektiv Gallery in Belgrade (2019) and Canadian Centre for Architecture (2020) to name a few. Teaching at Universidad Mayor (2017-2018) and at Marne la Vallée Architecture School since 2018.

Marcelo Faiden

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) with an Honor Diploma, and postgraduate studies at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-UPC). He earned his PhD (ETSAB-UPC) with his thesis “The Lower Parts of High-Rise Buildings.” He is the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Torcuato Di Tella University. He was a visiting professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture, FADU-UBA, the University of Palermo, and Torcuato Di Tella University. He was invited to teach courses and give lectures at numerous institutions such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valencia, the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo, the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism of the University of Montevideo, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Mónica Rivera

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

Renate Walter

Renate Walter (* 1983) studied at ETH Zurich and at the Southeast University of Nanjing, China. She graduated from ETH in 2009 with Prof. M. Sik. Renate Walter worked for Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten Zürich, E2A Architekten Zürich and for the Office for Building Buildings Zurich. She has been an independent architect since 2015 and founded WALDRAP in 2017 with Sebastian Lippok. From 2022 – 2023 she was a full professor at HFT Stuttgart. Since 2023 she has been a visiting professor at the USI – Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio.

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.

Sebastian Lippok

Sebastian Lippok (* 1981) studied architecture at the Technical University of Delft and at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where he graduated in 2008 with the Max Taut Prize. From 2008 – 2014 he worked for E2A Architects in Zurich. From 2015 – 2018 he was an assistant at the EAST chair at the EPF Lausanne. Together with Renate Walter, he founded WALDRAP in 2017. Since 2023 he has been teaching in the WALDRAP studio at the USI – Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio.

Xavier Ros Majó

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

António 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 Gomes

Felipe Buigues

Felipe Buigues (born 1991) is an Argentine architect and artist based in France.

Born and raised in Argentina, he studied Architecture at the University of Buenos Aires. Before relocating to France in 2016, he worked professionally with Adamo Faiden and IR Arquitectura, contributing to architectural projects across different scales.

Since moving to France, he has expanded his practice, developing parallel work as an artist and tattoo artist while maintaining a strong architectural sensibility and a minimalist approach in his work.

Giulio Tamma

Luciano Intile

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.

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.

AMAG

AMAG PUBLISHER is an international publishing house based in Portugal, that conceptualizes, develops and carefully publishes books and products related to architecture and design.

With a deeply conceptual approach, each project represents a challenge and a new opportunity to produce unique and meaningful work that meets the highest standards of quality and features a distinctive graphic design, away from industry trends, representing meaningful values and content in order to challenge, satisfy and most of all, inspire each and every reader and client.

As an architectural publisher, we acknowledge that our work has the obligation to divulge and promote architecture not only through our magazine and books, but also, and simultaneously, through complementary activities and initiatives that are associated with it.

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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.

OnArchitecture

OnArchitecture offers a deep and detailed panorama of the world’s main authors, works, experiences, and issues related to the field of architecture, urban design and the built environment. A collection of building portraits and interviews with architects, artists, curators, researchers, landscape architects, and urban designers from around the world since 2008. This database is available as a subscription service for architecture schools, libraries, and cultural institutions at www.onarchitecture.com.

OnArchitecture displays the oral and built history of architecture of the late XX century and early XXI century, with a strong emphasis on contemporary architecture in (South and North) America, Europe, and Asia. A direct contribution to academics, updating their knowledge, and boosting their educative practice -both online and in classes- dynamizing their methodological and pedagogical resources.
Librarians have found OnArchitecture to be a collection, which can be accessed from any location and device -simultaneously and unlimitedly, something fundamental since pandemics-, in which users can be administrated into various types of groups with real-time usage statistics.
Students have found OnArchitecture to be a catalyst for their initiative, self-learning, critical thinking, and global perspective of the discipline; thus contributing to form better architects -who will eventually make better architecture.

What is a house for

Our first experience with architecture starts at home. Besides giving shelter, a house can also invite us to think about ways of living and seeing the world, both physically and philosophically.
A house has the potential to trigger emotions, awaken curiosity and nourish our creative attitudes towards life.
We ask practicing architects and theoreticians to speak about a house they know. The choice is free, it can be by another architect, or a memory from long ago but it must be a house that has influenced them.
We believe that observation and creation happen simultaneously and are attentive to this.
We are searching for inspiring ideals; examples that enrich and invite us all to go further.
We hope to grasp the many diverse ways of relating to the world through the spaces we inhabit and answer the question: what else, beyond sheer utility, can a house be for?

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.