Eduardo Souto de Moura was born in Porto (Portugal) on 25 July 1952.
He graduated with a degree in architecture from the Higher School of Fine Arts of Porto in 1980.
He collaborated with the architect Noé Dinis in 1974.
He collaborated with the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira from 1975 to 1979.
He collaborated with the architect Fernandes de Sá from 1979 to 1980.
From 1981 to 1991, he worked as an Assistant Professor on the architecture course at the FAUP.
He began working as an independent professional in 1980.
Visiting Professor at Paris-Belleville, Harvard, Dublin, Zurich, Lausanne and Mantova.
He received several awards and participated in several seminars and conferences in Portugal and abroad. He received the Pritzker Prize in 2011, the Wolf Prize in 2013 and the Piranesi Prize in 2017.
João Luís Carrilho da Graça (Portalegre, 1952) He graduated in Architecture from the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 1977 and since then has run his own workshop. He was an assistant in the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon between 1977 and 1992, where he was also the professor teaching the projects subject during his first and last year as a professor.
On 9 July 1999, he was made Grand Officer of the Order of Merit.
He has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Architecture of the Autonomous University of Lisbon since 2001 and in the Department of Architecture of the University of Évora since 2005. He was also a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarre between 2007 and 2010.
He was a Visiting Professor for seminars and conferences on his work at various universities, especially in Barcelona, Seville, Lisbon, Rome, Milan, Turin, Verona, Mexico City, Vienna, Aachen (Germany) and Porto.
Ponte Visconteo. Valeggio Sul Mincio, Italy
Programme:
A few weeks ago, I went to a very interesting architecture exhibition in Paris on the work of the young Japanese architect, Junya Ishigami. In a video interview accompanying the exhibition, he states (quote from memory) that the architect is a "tour guide". This statement shocked me at first. Then, thinking about it, I thought it was an interesting idea: Imagine if architects were to travel and get to know the world that little by little they reveal!
We want you to show us a constructed or natural site where, with a minimum level of intervention, a discreet house can be constructed.
“...el El viejo gesto del speculum platónico, el de dividir lo real, no entre lo falso y lo verdadero, sino entre lo que efectivamente es, y las virtualidades que contiene, invisibles. Un árbol, este árbol, si no es fotografiado, sigue enviando sus imágenes; como afirma Bergson: "¿cómo no ver que la fotografía, si ella existe, ya está tomada, sacada en el interior mismo de las cosas y para todos los puntos del espacio? Ninguna metafísica, ninguna física incluso, puede sustraerse a esta conclusión." (Henri Bergson, Matière et mémoire, París, PUF, 1939, p. 22)”
José Bragança de Miranda, ph.01 – Jorge Molder: A fotografia como incisão. Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2017, p.9
