Castelo Branco, 1963. Graduated in Architecture from the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL) in 1986. He is the founder and president of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale since 2007. In 1991, he founded together with Nuno Mateus, ARX Portugal Arquitectos, a studio that has gathered an enviable collection of built works. ARX’s projects received numberless prizes, mentions and nominations, namely the International Architecture Award 2006 with the project for the Biblioteca Municipal de Ílhavo (The Chicago Athenaeum) and the Prize AICA 2003 (Associação Internacional dos Críticos de Arte) with the project for the Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo, also nominated for the Prémios SECIL 2002 and Mies van der Rohe 2002. Beyond projects, articles and references on specialized newspapers and magazines, he also published three monographs on ARX’s work: Uma Segunda Natureza (Blau, 1993), Realidade Real (CCB, 1993) and Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo (Caleidoscópio, 2004). Mateus was the President of the Southern Regional Assembly of the Ordem Arquitectos, and Vice President of the Direction of the same Regional Section between 2005-2007. Author/coordinator of the half-yearly magazine Linha (Architecture, Design and Landscape) of the weekly newspaper Expresso. He was also author/coordinator of the two television series of Tempo & Traço for SIC Notícias channel. He was a regular participant on the radio program Na Ordem do Dia on TSF. He was a teacher at the Escola Superior de Artes Decorativas de Lisboa (ESAD), at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), at the Escola Técnica Superior d’Arquitectura of the Universitat Internacional da Catalunya (ESARQ-UIC), in Barcelona, and at the Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon. Lecturer in Portugal, Spain, USA, Hungary, England, Brazil, Belgium and Italy. He took part of the jury of the Architecture Prize of São Paulo Biennial in 2003 and Europan Spain 2007.