The T2P research group carries out research in the area of the relationship between theory and the practice of design in the field of Architecture. The group’s object of study does not have a rigid geographic delimitation, but it will privilege research in the area of so-called Portuguese Architecture (in Portugal and around the world), without excluding foreign architecture and architects with architectural affinities with our particular design methods. Furthermore, the object of study does not have a rigid chronological delimitation but will always privilege Contemporary Architecture (in the sense of what is done today and now) or, in the case of studies on architectural practices of the past, in their (historical) relation to the architecture of today.
José Miguel Rodrigues was born in Porto in 1970. He is an architect and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 1994. He holds a Master’s and Doctorate from the same school (1998 and 2007). He is co-author of the New Aldeia da Luz project (1995-2002) and, since 1998, he has been a professor at FAUP. In 2013 he published his PhD thesis “The Ordered and Accessible World of the Forms of Architecture” and since 2011 he has been developing a post-doctoral project entitled “The relationship between theory and practice in Giorgio Grassi: affinities and oppositions”, a project for the translation into Portuguese of the author’s written work. He has translated, as part of the editorial project Giorgio Grassi, opera omnia, sic (Afrontamento, FIMS): “Leon Batista Alberti and Roman Architecture” (2015), Selected Writings 1965-2015″ (2018) and “A Life of an Architect” (2021). He was a member of the Board of Directors of FIMS and Director of the Integrated Master’s Degree course in Architecture at FAUP (2009-2018). Currently he is the president of the FAUP Pedagogical Council and coordinator of the research group T2P, researcher responsible (with Joana Couceiro) for the research project SIZA, baroque (funded by FCT), Director of the research centre of FAUP (the CEAU-FAUP) and Full Professor at the same school, teaching: History of Modern Architecture (in the Integrated Master) and Thesis Project, option [and] project theory and practices (in the PDA). He is the author of the book “Palladio and the Modern” (Circo de Ideias, 2020) distinguished with the FAD prize, thought and criticism (2021).
Nuno Brandão Costa (Oporto, 1970) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 1994, where he finished his PhD in 2013 and has been teaching since 1999. He was assistant to Professor Domingos Tavares, to Professor Bernardo Ferrão and Professor Pedro Ramalho, and is currently associate professor, co-executive lecturer with professor João Pedro Serôdio of Projecto 4, a curricular unit he has been teaching since 2001. He was coordinator and professor of the Course of Advance Studies in Architectural Design (EAPA 2014/2015) at FAUP, under the conduct of the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Jointly with professor José Miguel Rodrigues, he coordinates study option E Project Theory and Practices from FAUP’s PhD programme, chair the respective seminar 2E and is a researcher of CEAU FAUP from the group T2P.
He did a curricular internship with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, from 1992 to 1993; from 1993 to 1997 he colaborated with José Fernando Gonçalves & Paulo Providência in Oporto and in 1998 he began his own project practice following having won 1st prize at the public competition for the project of the Library of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon.
His work covers a considerable diversity of scales and programmes. The construction of the Campanhã Bus Terminal (TIC) and the rehabilitation and expansion of the São João de Deus social housing neighbourhood, both in Porto, are more recent worth mentioning.
His work was exhibited at the 8th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2004, at the Architecture Biennale of São Paulo in 2005, Portugal Now at Cornell University, New York in 2007, Tradition is inovation in Tokyo in 2011, at the Milan Architecture Triennale in 2004 and 2014, the 2017 2th Chicago Architecture Biennale and the 17th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2021.
He authored the exhibition projects for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2007 and 2016.
He was nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2008, 2021 and 2023, for the BSI – Swiss Architectural Award in 2012 and he was a runner up of the FAD Award in 2017.
He won the Revelation and Merit Award from Jornal Expresso / SIC in 2004, the Secil Award in 2008, the Vale da Gândara Award in 2011, Construir Public Building Award in 2022, the AICA Award in 2022, the “Expresso” journal award for project in social, economic and enviroment impact and the Gran Premio Enor 2023.
Jointly with Sérgio Mah, he was nominated curator of the Official Portuguese Representation at the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2018.
He was a guest professor at ETSA, University of Navarra, Spain; Estudio Barozzi Universidade de Girona; EHL Campus Lausanne, Porto Academy. He was a guest critic at the School of Architecture, University of Minho (EAUM), at the Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra (DARQ), at the École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (ENAC-EPFL), FAPyD-UNR de Rosário, Università Luav di Venezia (LUAV), Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Cambridge, ETH (GTA) Zurich and TU Wien.
He has been a speaker in seminars and at architecture universities in Germany, Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, France, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Spain and Switzerland.
João Pedro Alves de Guimarães Serôdio (Porto, 1963) graduated in 1991 from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where, in 2006, he passed the teaching aptitude and scientific ability tests, in which he presented the dissertation “Sem Sentidos” and the lesson “Sem Sentidos. A conquista da imagem do Pré-Moderno ao Pós-Moderno, and in 2015, he obtained his doctorate with the thesis “Projecto e Contexto Pensado na Obra de Serôdio, Furtado & Associados.
Between 1997 and 2002 he was a trainee assistant in Project IV of the Architecture course at the Lusíada University of Porto.
At the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto he was assistant to Professor Manuel Correia Fernandes and Professor Pedro Ramalho. He is currently an assistant professor co-taught with Professor Nuno Brandão Costa in Project IV, a subject he has taught since 2002, and since 2020, he has been a doctoral professor in Option E of the Doctoral Program in Architecture at FAUP. He was coordinator and professor of the Advanced Studies Course in Architecture Project (EAPA 2014/2015) at FAUP, under the supervision of architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
He did an internship at Atelier Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, between 1990 and 1991. He has had an office in Porto with Isabel Furtado since 1992. His work over the last few decades, which covers various scales and programs, includes the I3S – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, the Ponte de Lima Secondary School, the Hotel in Castelo de Paiva – Douro 41/ Octant, the Chocapalha Winery, the Houses in Pinheiro Manso and more recently the House in Miramar B.
He was elected President of the Northern Regional Section of the Order of Architects for the three-year period 2004-2007 and President of the National Council of Delegates of the Order of Architects between 2008-2010.
As the author of architectural projects in co-authorship with Isabel Furtado, he was shortlisted for the FAD Arquitectura awards, in 2018 with the work ‘I3S- Instituto de Inovação e Investigação em Saúde’ and in 2003 with the work ‘Dois Blocos de Apartamentos na Rua Sá Albergaria’; in 2017 shortlisted for the BigMat Award with the work ‘I3S’ and in 2016 shortlisted for the BSI Swiss Architectural Awards with the works ‘Casa Xavier’, ‘Casas no Pinheiro Manso’ and ‘Adega Chocapalha’. Nominated for the 2017 Mies Van der Rohe award with the work ‘I3S- Instituto de Inovação e Investigação em Saúde’. Winner in 2011 of the Villégiature award for the best architectural project in the hotel sector in Europe with the project to rebuild and extend the ‘Hotel Douro 41’, in Castelo de Paiva, and in 2016 winner of the German Design Council’s Iconic Awards with the project. ‘I3S- Institute for Innovation and Research in Health’.
His work has been exhibited in Portugal, England, Spain, Brazil, Belgium and Italy, including the Monographic Exhibition at the Singel International Kunstcentrum in 2006, and his participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002, 2004 and 2018, the São Paulo Architecture Biennale in 2013 and the Milan Architecture Triennale in 2013.
He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Navarre, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble, the Politecnico di Milano, the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra (DARQ), the School of Architecture at the University of Minho, the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon, the Ultzama Campus in Pamplona (Arquitectura y Sociedad Foundation) and the Porto Academy.
He has lectured at seminars and architecture faculties in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands.
Sérgio Mah (n. 1970). Has a BA in Sociology and a MA in Communication Sciences. Teaches on Photography and Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University Nova of Lisbon. His researches and writings are mainly focuses on image practices, namely in photography, video and cinema. He has conceived for the Ministry of Education the official programs of Photography for the Specialized Artistic Education; he was the coordinator of the artistic residency “The Site of Arts” (2007) for the cultural forum “The State of World” at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (CGF); He was the coordinator and teacher of the Advanced Courses in Photography (2005, 2008) at the CGF. As curator he was responsible for a significant number of solo and group shows, and has worked with artists such as Jeff Wall, Thomas Demand, David Claerbout, Pedro Costa, Paulo Nozolino, Victor Burgin, Julião Sarmento, Joel Sternfeld, Roman Signer, Tacita Dean and Walid Raad. He was the Artistic Director of the LisboaPhoto Biennial (2003-2005) and of PhotoEspaña (2008-2010). He was the curator of the Portuguese Pavilion at 54ª Venice Art Bienniale.