I joined the university in 1984, for the course at the Technical University of Lisbon. I remember perfectly the first day I entered the Escola de Belas Artes, left the metro at Rossio and went up Rua Garrett. Studying in Chiado was a privilege …
I joined the Escola do Porto and this starts to be the most remarkable thing of my academic path. Unfortunately, I had to leave after a year, for family reasons. But I was lucky to get a group of teachers that I am still friends with…
I attended the Faculty of Architecture but my course was a course in Fine Arts, taken at the old school at the Convent of São Francisco. It was a remarkable space, very interesting in the long and wide corridors and not so interesting in the classrooms …
I entered a school completely adrift where there was an absolute lack of debate about the themes of architecture (or any other). This meant that my colleagues and I had to look, outside of school, for what it meant to learn to think and do Architecture …
I am still part of the group formed at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon, of the first expressive group in Lisbon, which at the end of the seventies, started the course at the School of Porto …
We graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at a difficult time in college, at that moment of the great wave of postmodernists in Portugal. At the time, I was working in the studio of architect Gonçalo Byrne …
I grew up in a very large house, which was a very beautiful house, in Silves, in the Algarve. It had been designed by an architect, clearly influenced by Raul Lino, it was a very beautiful house, a special house …
Since I can remember, I always wanted to be an architect. I come from a small land, Seia, and the first memory I have is of being in my room – we had a small television and I was going to see Channel 2 there …
I studied landscape architecture. I graduated from the University of Évora. During high school I was very interested in studying the forest, I was in the science field …
The first day I attended classes while in my fourth year was the 25th of April 1974, the day of the revolution! From that day onwards, things changed, a student committee was formed and we made a list of those professors we would like to have…