News

Phase II of 'How to Build an Island – Úterus Azorica' involving the building of Low Cost Sustainable Housing with local materials goes ahead with the signing of contract for three developments in several Azorean Islands. 8-2020.

Sculptor Atelier 'Under the Compression of Light' in Rabo-de-Peixe started building, breaking ground in 7-2020.

Chapel of Eternal Light published in Italian Magazine The Plan. Article by Yehuda Safran and photos by Iwan Baan. 6-2020.

Chapel of Eternal Light nominated for the International Sacred Architecture Prize of Fondazione Frate Sole, in Pavia, Italy. 6-2020.

Building work on 'The Sudden Stillness of Light' artistic residences in S. Miguel, Azores continues after the concrete and stone work done, the enclosure with window frames started, prompting the interior finishing. 6-2020.

Domus Impluvium and Flight of Birds Houses in the Exhibition 'Radical House – Redefining Domestic Architecture For The 21st-Century'' to premiere in Rio de Janeiro, then Athens and closing in Chicago in 2021. Organized by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum and the European Centre for Architecture in Athens.

New project for a house at the side of Pópulo's praia grande in S. Miguel 'The Fragmentary Nature of Truth' submitted in PDL council. 4-2020.

New project for a house in Lake Furnas, The Echo & the Circle of Time' submitted in Povoação council in 1-2020.

Invitation to curate the exhibition on Azorean materials 'How to Build an Island – Úterus Azorica' organized by Regional Laboratory of Civil Engineer LREC and Azores government at the Arquipélago Centre of Contemporary Arts, in S. Miguel, Azores, involving a great number of designers and producers of stone, wood, natural fibres and pozolana, opened to acclaim in 18-1-2020.

Episode 18 of tv program Atelier d'Arquitectura on Singular houses featured Flight of Birds house and office interview aired in 12-2019.

Book launch of Yehuda Safran Essays on Portuguese Architecture and Art featuring Flight of Birds house at Souto de Moura Exhibition in Casa da Arquitectura, in a talk with the author, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Cristina Guedes and others. 20.10.2019

New project for an old seafront house refurbishment, 'The Interior Garden of Memory' in Francelos approved by VN Gaia council. 9-2019.

Chapel of Eternal Light nominated for the EU Mies Award 2019.

Chapel of Eternal Light inaugurated in November 2018, after 16 years work.

Filming at Flight of Birds house and office interview for the RTP2 documentary series on Portuguese architects, Atelier d'Arquitectura. August 2018.

Sushi restaurant "From the Bottom of the Sea to Heaven's Mouth" included in the Open House Lisbon event, June 2018.

Visitor's viewpoint center project for the top of Sete Cidades volcano crater approved by Azores government, 2017.

Eternal Light Chapel and Flight of Birds House included in inaugural Exhibition and catalogue, Casa da Arquitectura. Matosinhos, November 2017.

Lecture on recent work "the origin of architecture" at Lisbon Architecture Trienal. October 2016.

Flight of Birds house exhibited at Milan Architecture Triennale, on emerging Portuguese practices, 2016.

Project 'Gravity Grace is My Lightness', Cafeteria and Museum addition to a Watermill in S. Miguel, approved by Ribeira Grande council in 5-2015 and all building details, engineering and tender delivered in 1-2016.

Studio teacher at Spain-Portugal Fronteiras Summer Seminar. July 2014.

Invited to jury and lecture in Russia at Yekaterinburg Eurasian Prize, May 2014.

House on the Flight of Birds exhibited at S. Paulo Bienal, Brasil in a collective of Portuguese architecture, October 2013.

Lecture in Porto in the Iberian encounter of young Spanish and Portuguese architects, November 2013.

Two houses (Creation of Opacity and Theory of Winds) exhibited in Prague architectural week in November 2012.

Flight of Birds House nominated for the Secil Award 2012.

Lecture in Prague Castle and The myth and the mountain house exhibited at Prague architectural week in October 2011.

Exhibition at Museu do Oriente Lisbon, Europe-Asia new trends, November 2010.

House on the Flight of Birds completed November 2010.

Lecture in Istanbul and work exhibited at Mili Gallery May 2010.

Lecture in London at the Building Centre, February 2009.

Two lectures in Tokyo, at the Europe-Asia New trends on Architecture exhibition, and at Meiji University, December 2008 invited by Peter Cook and Toyo Ito.

Exhibited at Cornell University in NY in 2007 included in Portuguese Representation.

Flight of Birds House model and drawing part of Metaflux exhibited in Bienal de S. Paulo, Brasil 2005.

Exhibited at Experimenta Design Bienal in Lisbon in 2005.

Exhibited at the Venice Biennale and Milano Triennale in 2004.