In 2009 received the FAD ARCHITECTURE AWARD – Barcelona, Spain, with the project for the Garducho Biological Station, its first built public project. Was also prized in the VII BIENAL IBEROAMERICANA DE ARQUITECTURA 2010, Medellin, Colombia, finalist in the AR AWARDS 2009 granted in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects, prized in the 2010 SECIL PRIZE of Architecture, Portugal, and i
n the 2011 PREMIO DI ARCHITETTURA SOSTENIBILE of the Ferrara University, Italy. Recently was also nominated for the 2010 IAKOV CHERNIKHOV PRIZE for young architects, granted by the Iakov Chernikhov Foundation in Moscow, Russia, and the 2011 MIES VAN DER ROHE European Architecture Award, Barcelona, Spain. Among the projects of the studio are outstanding the Garducho Biological Station, in Mourão, Portugal, the Renovation of the ‘Leões’ old Factory for the University of Évora’s School of Architecture and Visual Arts (partnership with Inês Lobo), the Moura Municipal Museum, and the Hotel ‘Liesma’ in Riga, Latvia. The work of the studio was presented in exhibitions, lectures or published in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Holland, Germany, England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Latvia, Russia, United States of America, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, South Korea, China and Japan. Recently it was part of the selection of eight Portuguese studios that represented Portugal in the scope of the UIA2011 Tokyo – 24th World Congress of Architecture and in the 9th International Biennial of Architecture of São Paulo, Brazil, in the exhibition and lectures program named “Tradition is Innovation”.
