Casa da Arquitectura and Hinterland are organizing the Por Exemplo meeting on October 13, bringing together 10 practices of young Portuguese and Spanish architects aged 45 and under for an exchange of ideas, methods, and work processes.
There is a generation of young architects who have been developing their work in a stimulating international context, driven by the pressure of the tourism market. Despite their brief experience, these professionals have mastered digital tools, but they navigate a highly competitive and continuously accelerating world.
Who are these architects, what are they doing that is new, and how do they view the future of the profession? What examples can they offer? The goal of the Por Exemplo meeting is to create a space for young Portuguese and Spanish architects to showcase their work, presenting cases, ideas, and concepts.
With the goal of offering a critical analysis of different perspectives, realities, and design methods, Por Exemplo will provide insight into the challenges these offices face and the solutions they have adopted. The curation of practices was led by Filipa Figueira and Tiago Vieira from the Hinterland studio.
October 13 - 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Focused on architecture as a collaborative and sustainable act, Porto-based AR2A—founded by Adriano Reis and Sofia Gaspar—will join "Por Exemplo" to discuss the synergies they have been developing over the five years of their studio.
Based in Bilbao, in the Basque Country, BeAr—Ane Arce and Iñigo Berasategui—received the Peña Ganchegui Award for Best Young Basque Architects in 2019. Positioning itself also as a space for exhibitions and reflection on architecture as a discursive practice, the studio seeks to establish connections between different offices.
“Studios need to have more time. We cannot be project production machines. (...) We need to stop and think,” says Rita Aguiar Rodrigues, founder of RAR.STUDIO. Operating across the production of places and objects, research, and critical thinking, the studio's practice focuses on building solutions from a sensitive, critical, and responsive perspective toward context and its contingencies.
Juan Antonio Serrano García and Paloma Baquero Masats founded Serrano+Baquero in 2010, developing projects across various scales. The work carried out by Serrano+Baquero aims to be coherent with the time and place to which it belongs. Their strategies are always based on valuing what exists, attempting to bring elements from past eras to light to make spaces understandable within urban and landscape transformations—whether in rehabilitation interventions, new construction, or interior design, all approached through the intersection of tradition and innovation.
Founded in Porto in 2016 by Duarte Ramalho Fontes, Diogo Sousa Rocha, and Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues, MASSLab is a firm that understands architecture through its materiality and believes that, before becoming the knowledge of form or even visual effect, architecture is, first and foremost, a way of knowing. Their portfolio already includes projects in Portugal and abroad, covering a wide range of scales, from collective and single-family housing to urban planning projects.
October 13 - 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
HANGHAR is a Madrid-based architecture studio working at the intersection of architectural precedents and financial organization models. The studio develops projects ranging from furniture design to housing and urban planning. HANGHAR is di
SUMMARY is an architecture studio founded at the Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto by Samuel Gonçalves. Seeking a balance between pragmatism and experimentalism, SUMMARY develops prefabricated solutions aiming to respond to a defining challenge of contemporary architecture: accelerating and simplifying construction processes. Highly awarded, SUMMARY was the youngest practice to exhibit at the Venice Biennale in 2016.
Founded in Barcelona in 2014 by Laura Bonell and Daniel López-Dòriga, the studio Bonell+Dòriga received the Début Award from the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2019. "When discussing spatial renovation, we must also discuss how spaces evolve over time. Uses and intentions will also have to adapt. Our work as architects is to design for new needs and allow different lives to unfold inside."
spaceworkers® is an architecture and design studio located in Paredes, northern Portugal, founded by Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis, and Carla Duarte. The studio bases its practice on the constant exploration and search for new paradigms of contemporary architecture to achieve a close relationship between form and emotions. The studio's work reflects the pragmatic vision with which they face challenges and the critical spirit with which they evaluate their surroundings, appealing to their clients' sensitivity toward a new way of viewing and perceiving space in its sensory dimension.
Founded by six female architects in 2014, Cierto Estudio was born from plurality and collaboration, always in search of character, intellect, and joy. Fascinated by collective housing and aiming for innovative projects that respond to new ways of living, Cierto Estudio was awarded in 2021 for designing the "New Green Axes Model" for the "Superilla Barcelona" urban plan, as well as the design of the longest green axis: Consell de Cent. The project revolutionized the street experience in the city of Barcelona.
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