MANUEL GRAÇA DIAS
At the Lyceum I had a very interesting, very strong, very striking teacher, the Painter António Quadros, who ended up in Mozambique, where I was at that time, and was our Drawing Teacher…
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…