Rosmaninho+Azevedo Arquitectos

Rosmaninho + Azevedo is the name of the studio formed in Porto in 2015 by Susana Rosmaninho and Pedro Azevedo. From the beginning they’re dedicated to the most diverse scales, programs and sites, showing great resilience with tight budgets and deadlines. They move in the permanent search for a synthesis, in an optimistic and pragmatic process that focuses on the essential and that often finds in the constraints an unblocking. They seek that all project challenges are opportunities to solve problems and make architecture happen. Their intention is to foster the practice of architecture with additional multi-disciplinary improvements such as museology. All projects interest them, public and private, from houses to museums, from exhibitions and small ephemeral buildings to urbanism. The common factor linking the projects and works is that they are faithful to clear formal concepts, which are complemented by easily comprehensible building strategies. We highlight the Tua Valley Interpretive Centre and the Project for the Requalification and Musealization of Casa do Passal – Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1st Prize, 2017). In addition to the distinctions in public competitions, our work has been published nationally and internationally. In 2018 the Tua Valley Interpretive Centre won the Jury’s Special Award in the Archizinc Trophy – VMZinc (Paris); it was also nominated for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, was a finalist in the Bauwelt Award 2019: First Works and a finalist in The Plan Award 2019. For its set of projects and works this practice was a finalist in the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards (AREA) 2018. Susana Rosmaninho Architect, museologist and cultural producer. Master in Museology by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (2013). Researcher at CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory», since 2014. She has developed museological consulting for various entities. Collaborated between 2011 and 2012 in the curatorial assistance and production of exhibitions under the program of Art and Architecture of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. Co-founder and director of the Cultural Association Container & Content since 2015. Pedro Azevedo Master in Architecture by the Lusíada University of Porto (2009). Finalist of the Secil Architecture Award Universities 2009. Advanced Studies Course in Architectural Heritage by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (2018). Fellow of the Santa María la Real Foundation (2010). Collaborated between 2010 and 2015 with Menos é Mais Architects (Cristina Guedes + Francisco Vieira de Campos). Co-founder of the Cultural Association Container & Content (2015).