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  • Since 2012, Nuno has been working at his atelier where he draws and sometimes paints too, but he mostly draws: on walls, on papers and on tables as the slowness of the act of building leaves him yearning for the immediate. 

    Besides living and working in Penafiel, in the same neighbourhood where he grew up, he has studied at the Porto School of Architecture, TUDelft and Sangath Ahmedabad, taught at INDA Bangkok, Accademia di Mendrisio and is now teaching at the Porto School of Architecture. Never misses a chance to travel to discover and learn from what he sees, eats and listens to, while lecturing or tutoring workshops here and there, nearby or far away. 

    Writing and playing music is a therapy and Nuno plays drums and synth with Muay, a non-stop feeling of relentless sleeping-bag tours and half-empty shows. 
    He likes listening to albums (or live sessions) from beginning to end. 

    Nuno likes to sit alone at the building site and prefers to draw on-site rather than in CAD. 



team:

Ana Dias
Beatriz Medina
Diogo Veiga
Inês Montez

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Eliza Cassar
Hilal Kobrosly
I-Hsuan Chu
João Taveira
Luís Formiga
Paula San Nicolás
Ricardo Ferreira
Tristan Leduc


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Nuno M. Sousa, 1988


TEACHING

  1. Professor Projecto IV - FAUP (2025-)
    Docente Atelier Melo Sousa - Studio Olgiati, USI A.A.Mendrisio (2023-2024)

  1. Professor Projecto I - FAUP (2020-2023)

  2. Visiting Professor INDA - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (2015-2017)


EDUCATION

  1. PhD candidate, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (2021-)

  2. Exchange program at the International Workshop Ahmedabad – Vastu Shilpa Foundation, Sangath with Balkhrishna Doshi. Ahmedabad, India (2010)

  3. Erasmus Program at TUDelft , Bouwkunde, The Netherlands (2009-2010)

  4. Master in Architecture, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (2005–2011)


AWARDS

  1. FAD Award, Corcet Headquarters - Finalist (2026)
    EUMies Van der Rohe Award - Nominee (2026)

  2. ENOR Young Architecture Prize – Corcet Headquarters (2025)


  3. FORMA Award - Corcet - Finalist (2025)                  

  4. BSI Swiss Architecture Award - Nominee (2024)
    FAD Award - Casa de Quintela - Selected (2024)

    Young Architecture Award - Casa no Tâmega (2024)

    BIGMAT international architecture award - small scale, Casa no Tâmega (2023)

    FORMA Award - Casa no Tâmega - Finalist (2023)

  5. FAD Award - Finalist and Jury’s special mention award for Casa no Tâmega (2021)

    FAD Award - Room in Pala, Selected (2015)


PUBLICATIONS

  1. MAM 24 - Mês da Arquitectura da Maia, with Ana Resende, exhibition catalog, Porto (2024)

    n’est pas un portrait, collective monography, Porto (2024)

    AMAG PT07 Nuno Melo Sousa, monography, Porto (2024)

  2. PLATFORM 39 Silvosa, Italy (2023)

  3. ON AUTHORITY - reflections for Drawing Matter (2023)
    EN BLANCO#32 Nuno Melo Sousa, monography, General de Ediciones de Arquitectura, S.L., Valencia (2022)
    Casa no Tâmega, FAD Awards 2021 On Diseño 403-404 (2021)
    CASABELLA, no 880, December: Outros arquitectos no Porto. Oh!Porto Apartments (2017)
    Boutique Homes - Oh!Porto apartments (2017)
    A10 magazine, Sala em Pala (2015)
    Performance Architecture - Púlpito, Guimarães (2013)

  4. Um Delicado Sentido de Equilíbrio - A book based on the indian odissey. Juicy Records (2011)






EXHIBITIONS AND INTERVIEWS


  1. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona (2026)
    Bread and Heart Festival, Tirana, Albania (2025)
    Venice Bienal, Albanian Pavilion, Venice (2025)

    Venice Bienal, Portuguese Pavilion, Venice (2025)

    CONCRETA 2024 - AMAG DRAWING EXHIBITION with Tomoaki Uno (2024)

  2. MAM 24 - Mês da Arquitectura da Maia, co-curator with Ana Resende. Maia (2024)

    MAC XI Edizione Premio Lissone 2024, Exhibition and in-situ artwork, Lissone (2024)

    Interview #171 for Archivo de Ideas Recibidas, youtube, Chile (2024)

    Drawing For Food, Auction of architectural drawings to benefit those experiencing food insecurity. Toronto, Canada (2024)

    Marcujália Beyond Architecture Exhibition and Talk, Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos (2023)

    Junge Portugiesische Architektur, Exhibition, Stadtmuseum Dusseldorf (2023)

    Diskusiv.xys nº2 Colors, Exhibition. Graz, Austria (2023)

    No To War. Fundraising Auction of ARchitectural Drawings exhibition and auction, Zurich (2023)

    “TELA HABITADA” s01e10, a conversation about three artists with Soraia Fernandes, Rádio Antecâmara (2022)

    “CAIU II”, collective exhibition at Gama Rama Gallery, Faro (2022)

    Geo.Graphias, collective exhibition at Galeria Mad, Lisboa (2021)

    FAD award, Finalist and Selected projects exhibition - Casa no Tâmega, Barcelona (2021)

    FAD award, Cosentino Finalist round table (2021)

    “Fpoetics - CUMPLICITIES”, Collective exhibition, Casa das Artes, Porto (2021)

    Arquitetura entre vistas ep09, interview, Porto (2020)

    “Quantos aquatros cabem no a4”, collective exhibition, Barreiro (2020)

    “CAIU”, exhibition at Instituto, Porto (2020)

    “O Edifício de Arquitectura”, interview and report on Casa no Tâmega, Porto Canal (2019)

    “20x20 - ideias em confronto”, collective exhibition, Porto Canal (2019)

    ARQ.3 - casa report, interview and report on oh!porto apartments, RTP3 (2019)

    FAD award, Finalist and Selected projects exhibition - Sala em Pala, Barcelona (2015)


LECTURES, CRITIQUES AND WORKSHOPS



  2. PORTO ACADEMY, workshop leader, Porto (2026)
    UIA Barcelona, International Architecture Congress, workshop leader (2026)
    FADU lecture, Buenos Aires (2026)
    Oslo Arkitektforening, lecture, Oslo (2026)
    ETH Zurich, lecture (2026)
    Jámon Jámon Conference, COAC Barcelona (2026)
    Rooftalks, MIT (online lecture)
    (2025)
    Sarasar Institute of Architecture, Tehran (2025)
    Beautiful Mistakes, Dropcity, Milan (2025)
    UDG Girona Workshop – 22 Bridges for 22 Verbs, Girona, Spain (2025)
    ETSAM & ETSAV Cátedra Blanca lectures (Madrid & Valencia) (2025)
    UCC Architecture Society, Cork, Ireland (2024)
    Southeast University, online lecture, China (2024)

  3. Ghidoni studio - lecture at Polimi Leonardo, Milano (2024)

    (2024)

  4. Atelier Pedro Campos Costa, Politécnico de Milano - Piacenza, Final Reviews (2024)

    +concreta In Action, lecture, Porto (2023)

    USI Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, lecture at Mendrisio (2023)

    ARCHISUMMIT PORTO, lecture (2023)

    PORTO ACADEMY SWEEDEN, lecture at Vaxho (2023)

    MOVIMENT.A 22, lecture, School of Architecture of UBI, Covilhã, Portugal (2022)

    ISCTE, lecture for the 5th year design studio, Lisbon, Portugal (2022)

    ELA - Escola Livre de Arquitectura, online lecture, Brasil (2021)

    FAUP, Msc conception and structural experimentation, lecture “sobre a inconsciência do fazer”, Porto, Portugal (2021)

    PORTO ACADEMY 2021, lecture “O desenho e as coisas do fazer”, Porto, Portugal (2021)

    PORTO ACADEMY 2021, workshop leader, Porto, Portugal (2021)

    Porto Design Biennale Petite Follies, ESAD+FAUP, workshop leader, Porto, Portugal (2021)

    Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Bsc 1 Olgiati Design Studio final reviews, atelier Patricia da Silva, Mendrisio, Switzerland (2021)

    Geo.graphias, collective exhibition at Cabana MAD, Lisbon, Portugal (2021)

    Construção III, critique, Coimbra, Portugal (2021)

    UNAB Campus Creativo, lecture “concreto chão”, Santiago do Chile, Chile (2020)

    “usual suspects” midterm review, Fala atelier studio, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Toronto, Canada (2019)

    ISCTE, lecture for the 1st year design studio, Lisbon, Portugal (2019)



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