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Art historian. Works in the field of contemporary art, with a practise in curatorial projects, publications, cataloguing and organisation of artistic archives, documentary movies, juries, conferences and lectures, among others. PhD in Art History (Art Theory) in 2015, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). Research Scholarship (Doctorate) from the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology. Researcher of IHA – Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Guest Assistant Lecturer at Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra, since 2018. Responsible for the development and implementation of curatorial research projects for the Art Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art – Serralves Foundation, Porto, between 2014-2017. Coordinator and co-coordinator of exhibions’ and exhibitions’ catalogues at Casa da Cerca – Contemporary Art Centre, Almada, between 1995-2006. Co-author of the documentary about Portuguese sculptor Alberto Carneiro, “Dificilmente o que habita perto da origem abandona o lugar”/“Hard it is for those who live near the origin to leave the place” (2008, producer: Laranja Azul). Author of books and exhibition catalogues, as well as essays for exhibition catalogues, proceedings and the press. Recipient of the José de Figueiredo Prize (ex-aequo), awarded by Portuguese National Academy of Fine Arts, 2008.

Member of APHA – Portuguese Association of Art Historians; of AICA – International Association of Art Critics; and of IAWIS – International Association of the Word and Image Studies.

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Luísa Especial is the Artistic Director and co-founder of AiR 351. She has collaborated with several institutions such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Serralves Museum, Culturgest, MAAT, Contemporary Photography Collection /Novo Banco, Berardo Museum.

Luísa edited Luísa Jacinto´s book _No One Knows_, (AiR 351, 2022) and wrote the Afterword for Sara Bichão´s publication Antes que Adoeça, Before I Get Sick (Documenta, 2021). She was the Editorial Coordinator and Text Editor for Photography, a User ́s Manual (Documenta, 2015).

Luísa co-curated _Negócios Estrangeiros / Affaires Étrangères_ (2022), a performance and exhibition program conceived by Art by Translation and AiR 351 and presented in Les Laboratoires d´Aubervilliers, YGrec, CAC Torres Vedras and Palácio de Belém. Other exhibitions: Diogo Bolota´s Defeito Desfeito, QuARTel de Abrantes (cat., 2020), Katarina Policikova´s Souvenirs of Fire at Museu de História Natural de Lisboa; Gary Hill´s Linguistic Spill at the Boiler Hall (co-cur.), MAAT and also Second Nature (co-cur.), MAAT and the Kreeger Museum, Washington (cat.).

In the past, she organized projects, implemented partnerships and supported the artists in residence while working in Residency Unlimited, Carpe Diem Art and Research and Atelier Concorde.

Luisa holds a PhD in Art Sociology, a master’s degree in Curating Studies and a degree in Art History and benefited from grants from the Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia for writing both theses.

PhD in Art History (FCSH-UNL/FAU-USP - FCT scholarship), Master in Museology and Heritage (FCSH - FCT scholarship), researcher at the IHA (FCSH), lecturer at ESAD.cr. (Degree in Cultural Programming and Production and Master in Cultural Management) and FCSH-UNL (post-graduation in Art Market and Collecting), member of AICA.

She is an art historian, curator and editor. She is interested in practice and research in the areas of exhibition history; historical narratives and counter-narratives; large-scale artistic phenomena, notably contemporary art biennales and European capitals of culture; cultural policies; mediation, programming and production and management of cultural projects; editorial and experimental curatorship. Her most recent scientific research has been dedicated to the cultural policies of the Estado Novo period in the post-war international context, notably with her PhD thesis "GOING OUT - The SNI and the São Paulo’s Biennial in the genesis of the contemporary internationalization of the Portuguese art (1951-1973)", having received, as part of the APHA/Millennium José-Augusto França Prize 2019, the Honourable Mention for best PhD thesis.

She has published texts and articles and presented papers in scientific and institutional contexts and has been part of juries for awards and the selection of artistic and curatorial projects. She has collaborated with several independent institutions and projects in Portugal (namely the National Arts Plan, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Culturgest, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Museu do Chiado - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Museu do Neo-Realismo, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, EGEAC, Centro Cultural de Belém, Instituto Camões, Fundação Carmona e Costa, A Oficina, CAPC) and in Brazil (namely Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Othake, Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, Laboratório de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, ICCo - Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea/Biennial Foundation). She was assistant curator of the 29th Bienal de São Paulo, co-curator and editorial coordinator of the Laboratório de Curadoria da Guimarães 2012 Capital Europeia da Cultura and adjunct curator of Anozero19 - Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra. She is a member of the team of the Culture 2027 Network's application to become European Capital of Culture.

Maria do Mar Fazenda (Lisbon, 1977) is a freelance Curator and Art Critic.

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Mariana Pinto dos Santos (PhD in History and Theory, Univ. Barcelona) is an art historian and independent curator. She is a researcher at the Art History Institute, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University (Lisbon). She is an invited teacher also at NOVA as well as at the University of Coimbra. Her research and publications are focused on modernity and modernisms, the circulation of the avant-garde, historiography and theory of art, and twentieth-century Portuguese art and politics. She is the director of the Almada Negreiros-Sarah Affonso Documental Archive (NOVA FCSH). She has been co-owner and editor at Edições do Saguão since 2017.

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Paula Parente Pinto graduated in Fine Arts – Sculpture at the Fine Arts School of Porto University and attended the program Metropolis at the Architecture School of Barcelona University (ETSAB), where she completed a Master degree in Urban Culture. She worked as researcher and producer of exhibitions in the Museum of the Fine Arts School of Porto University and the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Serralves (Porto). She found and co-edited In Si(s)tu, an independent publication dedicated to Urban Culture, between 2000 and 2005. She defended the PhD thesis "Condemned to Invisibility? Antonio Canova and the Impact of Photographic Reproduction on the History of Art" at the Program of Visual and Cultural Studies at the UniversityUniversity of Rochester, in August 2016.

Since 2010, she curated several art exhibitions: "Ângelo de Sousa: Still sculpture" (Guarda, 2012); "Ângelo de Sousa: One sculpture, SNBA 1972" (Guimarães: CAAA, 2012); "Albuquerque Mendes: Never made a drawing exhibition" (Guimarães: CAAA, 2015); "Guido Guidi/ Carlo Scarpa - Túmulo Brion" (Lisboa: CCB, 2015); "Ernesto de Sousa: A mão direita não sabe o que a esquerda anda a fazer" (XIX Cerveira Art Biennial, 2017); "João Dixo: Exposição Cancelada" (Vila Real: Museu da Vila Velha, 2018); "Carlos Nogueira: fotografias de trabalho. e outros desenhos" (Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, 2018); “Stefano Serafin: arte em estado de guerra” (Lisboa: Galeria da Avenida da Índia, 2019); "Guido Guido: Caçador de Sombras” (Porto: Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica, 2019); “R2/ Fabrico Suspenso: Itinerários de Trabalho” (S. João da Madeira: Centro de Arte Oliva, 2019); “José Barrias: Escrever com a Luz. Notas para a Biografia de uma Sombra” (Guimarães: C.A.A.A., 2019); “Bárbara Fonte: Neste corpo não há poesia" (Guimarães: C.A.A.A., 2020); “Que horas são que horas? Uma galeria de histórias” (Porto: Galeria Municipal da Biblioteca Almeida Garrett, 2020); “Eu, Albuquerque Mendes” (Vila Nova de Gaia: 4ª Bienal Internacional de Arte Gaia, 2021); “Arquigrafias: Guido Guidi e Álvaro Siza” (Matosinhos: Casa da Arquitectura, 2021); “Albuquerque Mendes: corpo de performance” (Vila Real: Museu da Vila Velha, 2021); “Ursula Zangger: Comunidade de Artistas Portugueses emigrados em Paris nos anos 60-70”, (Guimarães: CAAA, 2021); “Egídio Álvaro (1937-2020). Lembrar o futuro: Arquivo de Performance”, (Porto: RAMPA, 2022); “Grupo Puzzle (1976-1981)”, (Bragança: Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, 2022-23); “Maria José Oliveira: até ao fim do mundo”, Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura (CAAA, Guimarães, 2022-23).

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Sara Antónia Matos is a sculpture graduate, holds a Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies (2005) from the Fine Arts Faculty of Universidade de Lisboa and a Ph.D. (2007-2012) with a thesis untitled “Da Escultura à Espacialidade” (From Sculpture to Spatiality). Sara Matos works with several institutions in the art field, published books and essays in art catalogues as well as in international magazines; develops her activity between artistic work, essays and exhibition’s curatorship.

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Margarida Brito Alves is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at FCSH/ UNL, being coordinator of the PHD in Art History and vice-coordinator of the PHD in Artistic Studies - Art and Mediations. She is a board member of IHA-Instituto de História da Arte (Art History Institute), where she coordinates the Contemporary Art Studies research group, and the Spatial Practices in Contemporary Art research line. She holds a PhD (2011) in History of Contemporary Art from FCSH-UNL. She is the author of _A Revista Colóquio / Artes_ (Lisboa: Colibri, 2007) - a book which awarded the José de Figueiredo Prize 2008 (ex aequo), attributed by the Portuguese Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes (National Academy of Fine Arts) -, and _O Espaço na Criação Artística do Século XX. Heterogeneidade. Tridimensionalidade. Performatividade_. (Lisboa: Colibri, 2012).

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Architect, architecture critic and historian. President of Docomomo International and Editor of the Docomomo Journal (www.docomomo.com). Full Professor at IST-University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the Architectural Area. She has a degree in Architecture (ESBAL, 1982), a master’s degree in History of Art (UNL, 1994), with a thesis entitled Os Verdes Anos na Arquitectura Portuguesa dos Anos 50 (FAUP Edições, 1997) and a holds a PhD (IST-UL, 2003) on culture and technology in Modern Architecture (Idade Maior, FAUP Edições, 2015), awarded with the X Bienal Ibero-Americana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Prize 2016.

She has been invited professor at multiple universities worldwide, her research field is the Critical History and Theory of Modern Movement Architecture, focusing on the relationship between European, Asian, African and American cultures. She has published 15 books and 95 essays, curated 10 exhibitions, participated in juries, scientific committees and gave lectures in universities worldwide. She coordinated the research project _Exchanging World Visions_ focused on the Sub-Sahara African architecture during the Modern Movement period which publication was awarded with the Gulbenkian Prize. As principal researcher for the “Heal and Care” project focused on the study of health equipment built in Portugal in the 20th century, she edited the book _Cure & Care, architecture and health_ (2020).

Évora, 1978. Holds a Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon and is a PhD student in Contemporary Art at the University of Coimbra. Between 2009 and 2013 he was the curator of Chiado 8 - Contemporary Art, in Lisbon. In addition to maintaining regular activity as a curator, he authored a book on the life and work of the artist José de Carvalho (Casa do Sul, 2004) and was the editor of _Robert Rauschenberg: A Crítica e a Obra de 1949 a 1974_ (Público/Serralves, 2008). In 2012, within the scope of Guimarães European Capital of Culture, he conceived and co-edited, with Pedro Faro, _Cadernos de Curadoria _– a set of twelve free newspapers dedicated to reflecting on curatorial practices in Portugal. In 2016 he was assistant director of ProjecteSD gallery, in Barcelona, and, between 2017 and 2019 he was curator at Galeria Zé dos Bois, in Lisboa. Since 2020 he is Head of Visual Arts at Culturgest.

Carlos Machado e Moura (Porto, 1982) is an architect, postgraduate in Architectural Heritage, PhD candidate (PDA-FAUP/FCT), and an integrated researcher at the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP). He is currently an invited assistant at the Porto School of Architecture (FAUP) and the University of Minho (EAAD) and is deputy editor-in-chief of J–A Jornal Arquitectos (2022-24). Carlos is also a working group leader at COST Action 18126, _Writing Urban Places_, a researcher of the project _(EU)ROPA Rise of Portuguese Architecture_ (CES-UC), and author of books like _Building Views_ (Circo de Ideias, 2017) and _Casas Quinhentistas de Castelo Branco_ (CMCB/Argumentum, 2008). Alongside his practice as an architect with MAVAA, Carlos co-organised several initiatives about Drawing and was assistant curator of the "Physics of Portuguese Heritage" exhibition and Open House Porto 2016. His work has received several awards and recognitions, including Premio Architettura Toscana 2022, Prémio Távora 2020, an honourable mention of Premio Architetto Italiano 2020 and the award of merit of AZ Awards 2019.

Chuva Vasco holds a PhD in Art Studies from the University of Aveiro (2009), Specialist in Arts from the Polytechnic Institutes of Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto (2019), and a Degree in Painting from the University School of Arts in Coimbra (2002).

He is an adjunct professor at the Escola Superior de Educação of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, where he teaches in the Degree of Art and Design.

As an integrated researcher at the Instituto de Investigação em Design Media e Cultura (ID+, Aveiro), he has presented several communications at national and international scientific meetings, and published some scientific articles in journals and conference proceedings, focusing his line of research on areas as diverse as the visual arts, cinema, communication, memory and archives.

He has two published books: _Comunicação na arte – o eterno sofisma_ (MinervaCoimbra, 2015); Relatividade Comunicacional da Obra de Arte – O espaço geográfico (MinervaCoimbra, 2019).

He is a visual artist, having exhibited individually and collectively since 1997, in Portugal and abroad (Brazil, Macau, India, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Spain, Paris), having also received some awards and honorable mentions.

Lisbon, 1977. He is a graduate of Faculty of Fine-Arts of the University of Lisbon, in Fine-Arts - Painting (BA, 1998/2004) and in Curatorial Studies (MA, 2005/06), with the cooperation of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

Between 2021 and 2022, he curated the itinerant exhibition “Contra-parede”, at Museu Municipal de Tavira, at Museu do Côa, at Museu Leopoldo de Almeida, in Caldas da Rainha, and at Museu Ibérico de Arqueologia e Arte de Abrantes, financed by República Portuguesa - Cultura | DGARTES - Direção-Geral das Artes. He won the Curatorial Award Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar / EGEAC 2016 with the project “Estranhos dias de um tempo menos feliz”, presented in April 2017. In 2008, he curated the group exhibition The unbuilding of man, at Galeria Municipal Paços do Concelho, Doispaços Galeria Municipal and Transforma in Torres Vedras, Portugal, as part of the itinerant project Antena of Serralves Foundation, Oporto, Portugal.

Between 2008 and 2011 worked as assistant at Galeria 111, in Lisbon. Between 2011 and 2016 worked as assistant Galeria Filomena Soares, in Lisbon. Between 2017 e 2019 collaborated as producer, researcher and curator at Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar/EGEAC, in Lisbon. In nowadays collaboorated with Cultugest in Consultin and Prodution Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection.

PhD in Fine Arts/Sciences of Art (Univ. of Lisbon, 2010) and a Post-Doc in History and Theory of Contemporary Art and Image Theory (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2016). She is a contemporary art historian and art critic, professor and writer. Professor at National Society of Fine Arts, researcher at CIEBA/FBAUL. She directs the academic publication Arte e Cultura Visual. Recent books: L’image dans le cadre du désir : transitivité dans la peinture, la photographie et le cinema (L’Harmattan, 2018); Teorias da arte: do modernismo à actualidade (Book Builders, 2019; 2.ª ed. 2020); Como pode ‘isto’ ser arte? Breve ensaio sobre crítica de arte e juízo de gosto (Edições Húmus, 2020); História da arte em Portugal: do Marcelismo ao final do século XX (Book Builders, 2021); Crítica de arte ou o espaço entre a Obra e o Mundo (Edições Húmus, 2021); Histoire de l’art au Portugal (1968-2000) (L’Harmattan, 2022).

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Caldas da Rainha, 1963.Has been an advisor and curator at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Center for Modern Art since 1999. In this context, she has curated so far around fifty exhibitions or events in contemporary art (including Densidade Relativa, 2005, Respublica, 1910 and 2010 Face a Face, 2010, and retrospective exhibitions by Joaquim Bravo, Rui Sanches, Fernando Azevedo or Charrua, among others).

She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art from the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra (2017). She completed a D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Études Approfondis): La Philosophie et la Cité, Esthétique variant, at the University of Paris X, Nanterre (1997). The equivalence to the Master's degree in Communication Sciences was awarded by Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She graduated in Modern Languages and Literature at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (1985).

She has been an art critic since 1989: she was a permanent contributor to the newspaper Expresso between 1989 and 1997 and occasionally to some national and foreign art magazines. She was a member of the governing body of the Portuguese section of AICA from 2004 to 2012.

She taught at the Autonomous University of Lisbon; at the Camões Institute in Paris; at the Ar.Co school; in the Masters of Painting and Curatorship at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon; in the Master's in Choreography at Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa; at different levels of secondary education.

She has authored several courses and conferences in the field of contemporary art, in a total of around 50 events. She participated in dozens of juries of various competitions in the artistic field.

She has published a hundred texts: catalog texts and texts about artists, three books about artists and interviews and encyclopedic compilations in the field of contemporary art. She has published three literary translations.

Ph.D in Culture Studies by the Humboldt & Viadrina School of Governance, in Berlin, and M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art by the Royal College of Art, in London, Luísa Santos is an Assistant Researcher, in Culture Studies / Artistic Studies, since 2016 at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. An independent curator since 2009, she conducted research in curatorial practices at the Konstfack, in Stockholm, in 2013 and, since 2019, she is a research fellow at The European School of Governance (EUSG), in Berlin. She is the artistic director of the _4Cs: from Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture_, which she has initiated with a consortium of 8 European institutions in 2017. Luísa Santos sits in the editorial and scientific boards of the peer-reviewed magazines Estúdio, Gama, and Croma and of the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS - Research Group Moving Image Kiel), Büchner-Verlag. She has collaborated with various institutions such as Tensta Konsthall, SAVVY Contemporary – Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Fundació Antoni Tápies, Museet for Samtidskunst, P28, Gulbenkian Museum, Carpe Diem Arte & Pesquisa, Anozero Biennial, Frankfurter Kunstvrein, OK-Centrum, and curated numerous exhibitions with artists such as Miguel Palma, Nikolaj Larsen, Yorgos Zois, Ângela Ferreira, Amira Hanafi, Marilá Dardot, Jeppe Hein, Jane Jin Kaisen, and Rouzbeh Akhbari. Having authored various publications in the domains of art and society, Luísa Santos is, since 2021, editing a book series on the politics of immaterial cultures with the Routledge. Since 2018, she is the co-artistic director of the nanogaleria, an independent curatorial project which she co-founded with Ana Fabíola Maurício.

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Architect, researcher, professor, feminist, activist, and mother. Researcher and Project Leader of W@ARCH.PT - Women architects in Portugal, 1942-1986 (Portuguese Government Funding, 2018-2022). Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ISCSP, University of Lisbon). Assistant Professor (University of Beira Interior, Architecture). Co-founder and president of Women in Architecture (Portugal). Member of APEM (Portuguese Association of Women's Studies), DOCOMOMO International and AICA International (Portuguese branch), among others. Degree in Architecture (Technical University of Lisbon, 1997), Master in History of Art (Nova University of Lisbon, 2008), PhD in Architectural Projects (Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain, 2010), and a postgraduate degree in Feminist Studies (University of Coimbra, 2016). Young Researchers in Art Studies Award (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2008). Advisor of several Master's’ dissertations, Doctoral theses and Post-Doc investigations. Primary research and reflection areas, with several books, chapters, and published articles: Architecture, Cities and Gender; Feminist urbanism; History of Architecture (20th Century: Housing and Women Architects). Lectures at events and courses in Portugal, Spain, Argentina, Italy, Brazil, USA, UK, among others.

Pedro Baía is an architect, editor, professor and researcher. Founder and director of Circo de Ideias (www.circodeideias.pt). Architecture critic for Público newspaper since 2017 and O Primeiro de Janeiro newspaper between 2007 and 2008. Member of AICA - International Association of Art Critics since 2017 and member of _Friendly Fire_ since 2010 (www.friendlyfire.info). He was part of the editorial team of Jornal Arquitectos between 2013 and 2015. He was the architecture editor of Artecapital between 2008 and 2015 and he was member of the editorial team of NU magazine between 2002 and 2004.

Author, editor and co-editor of several publications, with emphasis on: Nuances: os lugares da arquitectura (2021); Manuel Correia Fernandes. 18 Obras (2021); A Recepção do Team 10 em Portugal(2020); Porto Brutalista (2019); Nuno Portas. 18 Obras Partilhadas

(2019); Joelho magazine n.10 dedicated to the theme Team 10: Debate and Media in Portugal and Spain (2019); Bartolomeu Costa Cabral. 18 Obras (2016); Koolhaas Tangram (2014) and Berlin: Critical Reconstruction (2008).

Researcher at Lab2PT – Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory from Minho University since 2015. Guest assistant professor at

Minho University School of Architecture between 2014 and 2017, in Project 1, Architectural Theory 2 and Art and Contemporary Architecture Movements, and in 2021, in Radical Thinking in Architecture. PhD in architectural theory and history completed in 2014 at Coimbra University.

Art Critic, Art Historian and Curator. Graduated in Art History at FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and in Business Communication at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social de Lisboa. He collaborated on L+arte magazine (from 2006 to 2011). He was a Visual Arts consultant for the television program Câmara Clara, on RTP2 (from 2010 to 2012). He has developed and collaborated in various activities and projects of research, curatorship, dissemination, criticism, writing and production in the field of Contemporary Art. He works at the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, since its creation in 2013, producing and curating exhibitions and research around the work of Júlio Pomar. From January 2017 to March 2019, he was part of the management of Galerias Municipais de Lisboa (Deputy Director for the artistic part), within which he also curated and organized several exhibitions and editorial projects. He has been a member of the Portuguese section of the AICA-International Association of Art Critics since 2009, having been part of its board between 2012-2015.

Curator and art critic, with a PhD in Art History. Curator of the State Contemporary Art Collection. Research Fellow at Instituto de História da Arte [IHA, NOVA FCSH], her research projects, essays and articles cover topics related to artists-curators, practices of exhibition-making, independent spaces, and cultural and art criticism.

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Manuel Graça dias (Lisbon, 1953-2019) was graduated in Architecture from the Fine Arts College of Lisbon in 1977. He completed an Architecture PhD at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 2009. He began his academic career at the Faculty of Architecture of the Lisbon Técnica University (1985-1996). He has teaching at FAUP, and at the Department of Architecture of the Lisbon Autónoma University, for which he was also the director from 2000 to 2004. He has also been a visiting professor at the Milan Polytechnic since 2003.

He began his career as an architect in Macau, where he collaborated with the architect Manuel Vicente (1978-1981). In lisbon he founded the Contemporânea studio in 1990 with Egas José Vieira. Together they were awarded the AICA/MC Award for their body of work (1999). He was the director of JA – Jornal Arquitectos (2009-2011), and a member of the Portuguese Architect’s Association (for which he was also the director from 2009 to 2011), as well as having been the President of AICA’s Portuguese section from 2008 to 2012. In 2006 he was awarded the title of Comendador da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique (Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator) by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio.