Manuel CACHÃO TOJAL

Manuel Cachão Tojal, Lisbon, 1983, Graduated at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (F.A.U.T.L) in 2007. His first experience abroad was at Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro (U.F.R.J), where he spent one year through the European Socrates program. Later in 2007, he held a one-year trainee at the Faculty of Architecture of Tokyo (Tokyo Todaemae) through a Japanese fellowship. Still during his internship he collaborated with the studio SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa Architects and Asssociates). In 2008 he came back to Europe and started to work as an architect in Cadaval & Solà-Morales studio, in Barcelona. In 2011 he went to Sao Paulo, where he spent 2 years working as collaborator in the studio Reinach Mendonça Arquitectos Associados (RMAA).

In parallel, along the last years, he developed some projects of Architecture, such as Casa na Travessa do Patrocinio, built in 2012. Recently he came back to Portugal, where he currently lives and develops his individual activities and some collaboration projects.