Autor/-in: Francisco Aires Mateus

Francisco Aires Mateus (Lisbon, 1964), graduated from the Faculty of Architecture – U.T.L. in 1987. After collaborating with the architect Gonçalo Byrne, they founded AIRES MATEUS studio in 1988. They have been teaching since 1986 in several different universities across the globe including Harvard and Cornell University. AIRES MATEUS has been awarded with several prizes, both national and international, including the Valmor Prize, Secil Prize, Ecola Prize, Enor Prize, FAD Awards, the prize of the Ibero-American Architecture Biennale, and several projects have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Awards. In 2017 they received the Pessoa Prize, the most important prize in the area of Portuguese culture. Many projects have been published in international monographs and magazines.