MANUEL VICENTE
It’s been over 50 years. I must have joined Fine Arts in 53 or 54, I don’t remember well. I always went to schools, we lived in Parede, so I always walked in Parede …
JOSÉ ADRIÃO
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 …
INÊS LOBO
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…
NUNO MATEUS
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 …
MANUEL AIRES MATEUS + FRANCISCO AIRES MATEUS
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 …
JOÃO GOMES DA SILVA
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 …
JOÃO CARRILHO DA GRAÇA
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…
MARUSA ZOREC
I studied at Ljubljana’s Faculty of Architecture in the eighties. The school was still quite academic and severe, although it was considered more an “academia” than a technical school…
GIORGIO SANTAGOSTINO
We are very pleased to have architect Giorgio Santagostino as our guest. Welcome. We would like to start by telling…
RICARDO BAK GORDON
“Projects are made to communicate, they communicate on their own, we will not be there to defend them, to talk about them, they will have their own life.”