Manuel Rocha de Aires Mateus - architect lecturer Accademia di Architectura Mendrizio

Lisbon, 1963

Graduated as an architect in F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1986. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. and with architect Francisco Aires Mateus since 1988.

Teaching experience: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, in 2002 and 2005; Fakulteta za Arhitekturo, Universa v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2003/2004; Accademia di Architectura, Mendrízio, Switzerland, since 2001.

Main International Awards: Sines Arts Centre – PREMIO ENOR 2006 – Vigo, Spain, 2006 / Sines Arts Centre - CONTRACTWORLD2007 – Hamburg, Germany, 2006 / House in Azeitão, RS04 – Residencia Singular 2004 – 1ST PRIZE – Madrid, Espanha ,2004 / House in Alenquer, PREMIS FAD D’ARQUITECTURA I INTERIORISME 2003 – FINALIST – Barcelona, Espanha, 2003 / Students Housing, Pólo II Universidade de Coimbra, II BIENAL IBERO AMERICANA DE ARQUITECTURA – 1ST PRIZE – Cidade do México, México, 2001 / Students Housing, Pólo II Universidade de Coimbra, PRÉMIO LUIGI COSENZA – 1ST PRIZE – Nápoles, Itália, 2001 / Almedina Bookshop, Lisbon, PRÉMIS FAD D’ARQUITECTURA I INTERIORISME 2001 – 1ST PRIZE INTERIORS – Barcelona, Espanha, 2001 / Students Housing, Pólo II Universidade de Coimbra, EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE; MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD – selected for publication, 2000 / Students Housing, Pólo II Universidade de Coimbra, PREMIS FAD D’ARQUITECTURA I INTERIORISME 2000 – FINALIST PROJECT – Barcelona, Spain, 2000