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He is a photographer and video artist operating at the intersection of art and documentary, addressing three fundamental forms of change: natural, spatial, and temporal. His long-term artistic research projects involve various agents and collaborators, including scientists, writers, and critics. He received support from DGArtes for the video installation Sinfonia do Desconhecido II (2019) and for the video project Cérebros Distantes (2023). Other notable projects include the video installation Acid Flamingo, an investigation of the post-human world (2024); the exhibition and publication Luzes Distante, focusing on the energy and digital transitions that have marked the territory of Sines in recent years (2022); Futureland, a project on urban growth in nine metropolises (2007-10); and Cimêncio, a book on suburban landscapes co-authored with Diogo Seixas Lopes (2003). He was also one of the artists featured in the Portuguese representations at the Venice Architecture Biennale Public without Rhetoric (2018) and Metaflux (2004).

She is a Landscape Architect (Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon) and co-founder of the studio Baldios Arquitetos Paisagistas, established in 2014. Her work spans across professional practice, teaching, and research within the broad field of Landscape Architecture. She has been a guest lecturer at ISA (2004–14), the University of Coimbra (2021–2024), the University of Évora (2003–04), and the Mantua campus of the Polytechnic University of Milan (2024). She collaborated on research projects led by Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and Manuela Raposo Magalhães (1998–2001) and was part of the Global – Arquitetura Paisagista studio (2001–2012). For the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, she curated Os Caminhos da Água (Open House 2021) and co-curated the exhibition Paisagem: Espaço, Ideologia e Acção (2007). She was part of Pedro Gadanho’s team for Guarda European Capital of Culture 2027 project, and contributed to the publication Portugal Património (by Álvaro Almeida and Duarte Belo) and to the AP magazine of the Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects (2010–2013).

He is an architect trained at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Milan, having attended the Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa in 2002/03 under the Erasmus programme. He has collaborated with different architects and architecture studios, in Italy and Portugal. His multidisciplinary background and interest in the History of Architecture and Art, as well as in the production of analogue and digital images, led him to found 18—25 Research Studio in 2010, which he now shares with architect Filipe Alves. With a strong technological component, the studio explores contexts of Virtual and Augmented Reality. He has been invited to present his and the studio’s work at various universities and exhibitions and cultural institutions, participating in exhibitions such as Artificialis: The Nature of Latent Images (Galeria Garagem Avenida, 2025), presenting some AI-generated artworks; Inner Space (Lisbon Architecture Triennale, MNAC, 2019); Utopia/Dystopia (MAAT, 2017); What is Innovation in Architecture? (MUHNAC, 2016); and Pixel/Brick/Pixel (University of Minho, 2015).

He is an architect (FAUP 1996), Associate Professor at EAAD/University of Minho, and a research member of Lab2PT. In 2025 he presented some artwork for the exhibition Artificialis: The Nature of Latent Images (Garagem Avenida, Guimarães). His research into the relationship between architecture and image began with his doctoral thesis Arquitetura como Imagem, Obra como Representação(University of Minho, 2007). In 2015 he was awarded the AICA/Fundação Carmona e Costa Architecture Criticism Prize with the book Escola do Porto: Lado B (CIAJG/Documenta, 2014). He has participated in various exhibitions as a curator as well as with his own works. As a curator, he has collaborated with Casa da Arquitectura; the Lisbon Architecture Triennale; the Porto City Hall; and CAAA or CIAJG. As an author, he published the books Arcosanti (Circo de Ideias, 2017) and O Mundo às Costas (Pierrot le Fou Editora/DGArtes, 2019). He has exhibited his work at the Venice Architecture Biennale, São Paulo Architecture Biennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012, MAAT, EDP Gallery, among other institutions.

She is an architect (FA/UTL 1999) and MSc. in Multimedia-Hypermedia (ENSBA/ENST Paris 2003). She is dedicated to the editorial field, cultural projects, and exhibitions. She collaborates with the architecture specialized international press. She is part of J—A Jornal Arquitectos, where she was co-author and coordinator of the editorial project (2015-19). She is a member of AICA – the International Association of Art Critics. She was the curator of Artificialis: The Nature of Latent Images presented in Guimarães (DGArtes and University of Minho, 2024-25). She co-curated projects such as: Portuguese Architecture in Democracy 2000-2024 Collection (Casa da Arquitectura); research and exhibition Almada: A Territory in Six Ecologies (Museum of Almada, 2020); Generation Z: Emerging Portuguese Architectural Practices, exhibitions and conferences (2009-11). In 2001, she joined arqa – architecture and art magazine, which she coordinated from 2010-16. She was part of Experimentadesign for the Design and Architecture Biennales (2011-17), as editorial coordinator, editor, and responsible for several books and publications.