CV Timeline
- 1982 – Born in Lisbon. A fine year.
- 2000 – I started studies in Architecture at FAUP – Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto. (Did you know this school produced two Prtizker laureates?)
- 2004 – I won an Erasmus scholarship and spent an year in Florence at Universitá degli Studi di Firenze.
- 2005 – Academic internship at JBMM Arquitectos, where I had my first contact with the outside world.
- 2006 – I graduated in Architecture with a nice 18 in 20 mark in my final thesis which you can see here.
- 2007 – Spent a year working in Vienna at henke und schreieck Architekten contributing to great architecture and some first prizes.
- 2008 – I worked in New York City for three months, in a super-metropolitan experience with ArchitectureInFormation.
- 2009 – Back to Portugal, I had an enterprise experience while directing a big architecture project in Habiserve SGPS.
- 2010 – I started my own practice as architect, while developing other services as webdesign and visualization.
- 2011 – I founded AZVAvisuals, a company dedicated to communicate architecture through visuals.
- 2012 – CEAAD – Curso de Estudos Avançados em Arquitectura Digital – marks a comeback to academic studies.
- 2012 – I won a scholarship to CEAAD, sponsored by Amorim Isolamentos S.A. Amorim is the largest cork producer in the world.
- 2013 – I enroled in CEAU – Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo -, the research center within the school I graduated in: Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
- 2014 – I won a Research Grant with the purpose of collaborating in the project “Robotic Construction in Architecture” within the DFL – Digital Fabrication Laboratory
- 2014 – Hooray for this one: I was recommended for a PhD Grant in Architecture! That means that this year I should start my great individual journey (hopefully with many interesting collaborations) in research.
- 2016 – Started lecturing in Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto in CAD and BIM (ArchiCAD).
- 2020 – I finished and defended my PhD thesis entitled “Reconstruction of a Stereotomy – for a multi-semantic stereotomic approach”.