Aires Mateus. "Voids and Houses: Settings for Life"

Aires Mateus will lecture "Voids and Houses: Settings for Life", finally (was scheduled for the 25 January) on Wednesday, February 01, 2012, at 13.00h, in Refectorio room, IE School of architecture. This lecture is part of the “Past/future: exploring architecture's response to time” lecture series.

House, Leiria, Portugal. Aires Mateus. Photography © Fernando Guerra.

Lecture: "Voids and Houses: Settings for Life". (now, yeah!)

Architects Mateus graduated from the Faculdade de Arquitectura/ Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (F.A/ U.T.L) in 1986 and 1987, respectively. They worked in the office of architect in GonÇalo Byrne since 1983 and in 1988 they founded their own office, Aires Mateus Architects. Since 1998, they hold professorships in design at the Universidad Auntónoma de Lisboa and at the Accademia di Architectura de Mendrizio since 2001. They have been visiting design critics at many different international universities and institutions such as the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (2002, 2005) and have given lectures and seminars in more than twenty different countries.

The work o Aires Mateus has been published in many several monographs including Aires Mateus (“El Croquis”, nº154, Madrid, 2011), Aires Mateus (“Darco Magazine”, Matoshinhos, 2009), Abitare el limite. Dodici Case di Aires Mateus & Associados (Salerno, 2009), or Aires Mateus (“2G”, nº 28, Barcelona, 2003). They have had exhibitions in many different places such as the Venice Biennale (2010) and Gallery 1, RIBA London (2009). Their work has been awarded with the First FAD Prize for Architecture and Interior Design (2001) and has been short-listed for the Mies van der Rohe Award on a number of occasions (200, 2009, 2007).

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Voids Bienale of Venecia 2010. Aires Mateus.

Mar do Oriente, Portugal. Aires Mateus. 2008 Photography © Fernando Guerra.

Housing. Alcacer do Sal, 2010. Aires Mateus. Photography © Fernando Guerra

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AIRES MATEUS

Manuel Rocha Aires Mateus. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1963. Graduates as an architect in F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1986. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Collaboration with architect Francisco Aires Mateus since 1988.

Teacher in Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, in 2002 and 2005. Invited teacher in Fakulteta za Arhitekturo, Universa v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2003/2004. Teacher in Accademia di Architectura,Mendrízio, Switzerland, since 2001. Professor in Universidade Autónoma, Lisbon, since 1998. Professor in Universidade Lusíada, Lisbon, since 1997. Invited for several seminars and conferences in: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.

Francisco Xavier Aires Mateus. Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1964. Graduates as an architect F.A./U.T.L., Lisbon Portugal in 1987. Collaboration with architect Gonçalo Byrne since 1983. Collaboration with architect Manuel Aires Mateus since 1988.

TEACHING. Visiting professor at Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo 2009. Teacher in Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA, in 2005. Teacher at Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera Italiana, since 2001. Professor at Universidade Autónoma in Lisbon since 1998. Invited Teacher for seminaries in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, England, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Chile, Brazil, USA, Slovenia, Croatia, Canada and Japan.