Aires Mateus - Architectural Terrains: Five Investigations

About Delfim SardoFrancisco Aires MateusManuel Aires MateusNuno CrespoPaulo Pires Do ValeRicardo CarvalhoSofia Pinto Basto

Manuel Aires Mateus (Lisbon 1963) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture U.T.L. in 1986. 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. Nuno Crespo (PhD New University of Lisbon) is Senior Researcher at the Art History Institute of the New University of Lisbon. His work includes the  coordination of  the research group Art. Criticism. Politics. teaching Aesthetics and Art Theories and coordinating graduate studies in Art Curatorship. His research activities have been concentrated on the intersection between art architecture and philosophy and devoted to the possibilities of critical thinking within curatorship. Recent publications include articles on Adriana Molder Aires Mateus Axel Hütte Bernd and Hilla Becher Candida Höffer Carrilho da Graça Daniel Blaufuks Fassbinder Gerhard Richter Luísa Cunha Miguel Ângelo Rocha Nuno Cera Paulo David Pedro Costa Rui Chafes Vasco Araújo and books Wittgenstein e a Estética Julião Sarmento. Olhar Animal. Arte.Crítica. Política. He is also an art critic and an independent curator. Sofia Pinto Basto graduated in 1993 from the Faculdade de Arquitectura Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. She completed further studies in the field of Philosophy at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1995 while already working  in the studio Oliveira Sousa Arquitectura e Urbanismo where she gained twenty years of experience. As project coordinator projects she worked on include the campus of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa campus of the Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave and the Stone Block housing building in Lisbon. Since 2000 Sofia Pinto Basto has been working together with Ana Cravinho and Inês Cordovil. They founded SIA arquitectura studio in 2007 with the aim of defining a language that reflects their distinctive perspective on architecture. Paulo Pires do Vale is a pProfessor essayist and curator graduate and master in Philosophy from FCSH Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He teaches at the Portuguese Catholic University at the Department of Architecture at UAL and at Maria Ulrich School of Early Childhood Educators where he coordinates the Postgraduate Degree in Artistic Practices and Pedagogical Processes. The many essays and articles he has written include  Everything is something else. Desire in Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit . His writing has been published in books magazines and catalogs of collective and individual exhibitions and focuses primarily on the relationship between art education and society. Ricardo Carvalho graduated in architecture in 1995 at FAUTL at the Universidade Tecnica in Lisbon.  He established the studio RCJV Arquitectos in 1999 which has been known as Ricardo Carvalho Associados since 2018. In 2012 he earned a PhD in Architecture from the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon. He has taught as a professor since  2005 and became Dean of the Department of Architecture of the Universidad Autónoma Lisbon in 2013. His teaching positions include a professorship from 2009 to 2013  in the Architektur Studium Generale International Master at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus Germany and visiting professorships at the Escuela de Arquitectura Universidad de Navarra in 2013 and Carleton University Ottawa from 2016 to 2017. He is a regular guest critic in several universities in Portugal and abroad.  From 2005 to 2008 Ricardo Carvalho worked as  editor in chief of JA-Jornal dos Arquitectos. He writes regularly for international publications and has curated various architectural exhibitions. His book The Social City was published in 2016. The many awards he has been nominated for include the Mies van der Rohe Award of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture which he was first nominated for in 2015 and currently again for the 2022 cycle. Delfim Sardo is a professor at the University of Coimbra and responsible for the visual arts program at Culturgest Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos. He also works as  consultant of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and director of the Center of Exhibitions of the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. His curatorial work includes the curatorship of the Portuguese Representation at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and co-curatorship of the same in 2010. He was also chief curator of the Architecture Triennale of Lisbon 2010 and of the Biennial Anozero in 2017. Further pursuits include his  founding and directing  the Pangloss contemporary art magazine and working as president of the Portuguese section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). He writes regularly on art and architecture and is the author of several books including A Visão em Apneia published by Babel in 2013  and O Exercício Experimental da Liberdade by Black Orpheus in 2017.