Miguel Marcelino (Portugal, 1981), architect (UAL, 2005), lives and works in Lisbon. Studied music from 1993 to 1998 at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon. Worked with Herzog & de Meuron (Switzerland, 2003/04) and Bonell & Gil (Spain, 2005/07), before establishing his own office in 2008, winning right on that year his first open competition. His built work covers the most varied scales and programs, from small private dwellings to large public buildings.

Mário Martins was born in Lagos, Algarve – Portugal in 1964, and graduated in 1988 from the Architecture Faculty of Lisbon Technical University. He worked for about one year in the architectural practice of Manuel Graça Dias and Egas José Vieira, and occasionally with the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça. At the end of 1988 he decided to return to Lagos, setting up Oblíqua Arquitectos with the architect Vítor Lourenço, with whom he developed many projects before the partnership ended in 2000. Since then, through the company Mário Martins Atelier with Maria José Rio (his business partner and wife), he has continued to focus exclusively on architecture, assisted by his enormously dedicated and hard-working team. With a contemporary style influenced by the place in which he mainly works – Algarve – his projects have undergone a natural process of evolving and maturing.

Im Marion Gouges, a French architect currently living and working in the vibrating city of Lisbon. After obtaining my Master Degree at ENSA Paris Belleville in 2016, Ive moved to Portugal in order to learn from a unique and beautiful vision on contemporary architecture, where elements from the past support the future. Between yesterday and tomorrow, this is where I aspire to build.

MLVA Architecture originates of a natural evolution of the parternship between two professionals with over 9 years collaborating in several projects. The project started by Marcelo laguna is associated with Vasco Alves’ field of practice, as a response to an increasing work demand, greater complexity of projects, and to the acknowledgement that the synergies created between the partners enables sustainable evolution and growth. Fields of practice Housing | Office | Hospitality | Education | Health and Social Care | Trade and Services | Rehabilitation, Refurbishment, Restoration, Conservation, Adaptation | Interior Design | Landscape | Urbanism and Planning

Magda Leiria was born in Santarém, a city near Lisbon in Portugal, in 1981. Between 2000 and 2005 she studied at the Faculty of Architecture University Moderna of Lisbon. During her academic way she participated in some workshops national and internationals and win the third place in Sabaudia Summer School, in Italy. Participated in Secil universities award. During a year she was a collaborator in an architecture office in Deutschland and Portugal, scope the internship for Architects Association. From July 2007 to May 2008 she collaborated with Vila Franca de Xira Town Hall in a project AUGI (Illegal urban areas). From May 2008 to October 2010 she collaborated with architect José Augusto Rodrigues in some multifunctional projects in Portugal and Angola and a public concourse of a school project. From February 2009 to May 2013 she collaborated in Institute of Financial Management and Justice Equipment with some public projects specifically Courts and Palaces of Justice, Educational Centers and Prison Facilities. From May of 2013 to March 2020 she was collaborator in Artbox Arquitectos, with several public and private projects, following the entire process from sketch to finished construction, in Portugal and Angola. Since 2009 she has her own studio, GESTOS CURIOSOS ARQUITECTURA where approach architecture, urbanism and design and several project constructed and some others in work process.

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MNK DESIGN STUDIO is an award-winning studio of multiple technical applications based in Xanthi, Greece. The services offered summarize on building permits issue, interior and exterior design, interior decoration of house units, retail buildings and also hotels, both in Greece and abroad. The studio was founded in 2012 by Μ.Sc. Civil Engineer Kyriakos N. Michailidis and today consists of a remarkable team of professional engineers and architects. In 2019, the studio was awarded at the “INTERIORS AWARDS 2020 GREECE” for two of its projects: Bakero Barbershop & YM Apartment. Nowadays the studio operates in various- quite different from each other- projects aiming at innovation, functionality and aesthetics.

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