r:arqa - 15 Architects

Inês Moreira Porto, 1977 Is an architect, researcher and curator. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Porto University in 2001. She completed a master degree in Theory of Architecture and Urban Culture from UPC-Barcelona in 2003. She obtained her PhD degree from the Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2013. Her curatorial projects approach specific spaces (as post-industrial hangars, burnt historical buildings, minor architectures, or abandoned museums) exploring knowledge oriented research/production in the intersection of art, architecture, techno-science and the humanities.

Miguel Marcelino Ponta Delgada, 1981 Is graduated in Architecture from the Autónoma University of Lisbon in 2005. He also studied music at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, from 1993 to 1998. Currently lives and works in Lisbon. Worked with Herzog & de Meuron (Basel, Switzerland, 2003/04) and Bonell & Gil (Barcelona, Spain, 2005/07). In 2008, back to Lisbon, establishes his own office and wins his first open competition. In 2014, he makes part of the official Portuguese representation at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. www.marcelino.pt

Filipe Afonso Porto, 1975 Graduated in architecture at Escola Superior Artística do Porto in 2001. MArch in Genetic Architecture, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona. 

From 2006 founding partner of Arquitectos Anónimos®, extending his previous backgrounds and digital-computational knowledge on projects to the practice of architecture. From 2010 he is assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias and from 2011 at Escola Superior de Artes e Design. From 2014 he is visiting professor at University Innsbruck and assistant professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Architecture.

Lucinda Correia Lagos, 1975 Is an architect and pedagogue. Co-founder and director of Artéria, she is responsible for the design and project coordination and the supervision of educational programmes under the concepts of space and architecture. She graduated at the FA-UTL, Lisbon and received her Postgraduate’s degree in Emerging Cultures and Speeches: from Criticism to Artistic Expressions, at the FCSH-UNL/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She is currently preparing her PhD research on the implications of the legal conceptual framework in architectural practice. www.arteria.pt

Paulo Albuquerque Goinhas Beja,1977 Is M.Psy. in Community Psychology at ISPA-IU in 2013 and graduated in Architecture at the Lusíada University of Lisbon in 2001. Founding partner of EMBAIXADA Arquitectura, an award-winning Lisbon based architectural studio established in 2002.

Susana Ventura Coimbra, 1978 Is currently developing a post-doc research project untitled Towards an intensive architecture at FAUP, where is also member of the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU-FAUP). Awarded, in 2014, with the Fernando Távora’s Prize with the proposal Expedition to an intensive architecture, an expedition journey to Japan, Center and North Europe. PhD in Philosophy – Aesthetics at FCSH-UNL, 2013, with the thesis Architecture’s Body without Organs, supervised by the renown Philosopher and Professor José Gil, which included research residences at the architecture studios of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York), Lacaton & Vassal (Paris) and Peter Zumthor (Haldenstein). Architecture Graduate from darq - FCTUC, 2003, with the final graduation thesis I have a Crow in my head when I lay down among the garden grass about the concept of happiness in the thought of Le Corbusier.

Sérgio Antunes Lisboa, 1977Is an architect graduated at Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa and at Universitá della Svizzera Italiana - Accademia di Architettura, Mendrizio (2003). He was one of the founders of the collective Kaputt! in 2003. In 2010 founded, together with Luca Martinucci the collective 18:25 Empreiteiros Digitais. Also in 2010 he founded the studio Aurora Arquitectos with Sofia Reis Couto. He has been spokesman of the different organizations he has been part of in conferences, seminars and workshops.

Pedro Jordão Aveiro, 1977Is a Portuguese architect. He holds a degree in architecture from the University of Coimbra and has since divided his activity between architecture and cultural programming. He was the founder and first director of NU magazine and has since contributed to several publications and conferences. He has experience as a college professor and as a curator, in initiatives like HabitarPortugal or Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. Besides architecture, he was artistic director in Teatro Aveirense and in other cultural venues, specially related to music and film.

Kirill de Lancastre Jedenov Rio de Janeiro, 1976Current research is Nature as Process. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia and practices architecture at Jedenov Arquitectura. He has studied and/or worked at Kaputt! Arquitectos, ISCTE-IUL, Universität Innsbruck, Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa and Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, among others.

Mariana Pestana Viseu, 1982Is an architect and curator. She has a degree in architecture from the University of Porto (FAUP) and a MA in Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. She lives and works in London, where she co-directs the collective The Decorators, with whom she develops curatorial projects and interventions in the public realm. She is doing a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture and is a lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Mariana recently curated the exhibition “The Real and Other Fictions” for Close, Closer, 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale and integrated the Official Portuguese Representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014.

Pedro Clarke Cambridge, 1983Was born in the UK and grew up in Lisbon, Portugal. Studied architecture at FAUP- Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, where he graduated in 2007, and AHO- Arkitektur Høgskollen i Oslo. Currently completing a Masters Degree on Development and Emergency Practice at CENDEP- Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University, UK. After working in both emerging and developed countries established A+Architecture in 2014, in order to focus on making architecture more accessible to all.
www.a-architecture.org

Pedro Levi Bismarck Porto, 1983Architect graduated in FAUP. Editor of Punkto Magazine (www.revistapunkto.com). Researcher in CEAU and FCT fellow. Is currently developing is PhD thesis. His research inhabits a thematic field placed between architecture, space, politics and vocation, with the aim of (re)thinking a certain political condition and artistic vocation of the making of architecture.

António Louro Lisboa, 1978Architect graduated by the Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He was one of the founders of the art and architecture studio MOOV where he worked between 2003 and 2013. In the beginning of 2014, he founded the architecture office FURO. He lives and works in Lisbon.

Diogo Aguiar Porto, 1983Architect, holds a degree by Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto since 2008. He has worked with UNStudio in Amsterdam. Since 2010 he is a co-founder of LIKEarchitects, a collective based in Porto and awarded with the Archdaily Building of the Year 2010, International Space Design Award (China) and Minsk International Biennale of Young Architects (Belarus) and nominated to Detail Prize 2011 (Germany) and Prémis FAD 2013 (Spain), among others. In an individual basis, he is co-author of Eco-Resort Pedras Salgadas, built in 2012 and awarded with Archdaily Building of the Year 2012. Recently, he joined the Portuguese official representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014.