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A celebrated Portuguese architect and a prominent member of the Porto School of Architecture alongside Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura (b. 1952) has built a career spanning over four decades. His journey began with his graduation from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (now FAUP) and the launch of his independent practice in 1980, marked by the award-winning Casa das Artes cultural centre in Porto.

Souto de Moura gained international acclaim as the second Portuguese architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011, architecture’s highest honor. This recognition highlighted his body of work, including the Estádio Municipal de Braga, the Burgo Tower in Porto, and the Paula Rego Museum in Cascais. His distinguished career has since been adorned with numerous accolades. Recent awards include the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize (2019), the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale (2018), and membership in the French Academy of Architects (2022). He has also received honorary doctorates and prestigious prizes across Europe, such as the Virgílio Medal in Rome and the BigMat International Architecture Award Grand Prize for his Foz Tua Power Plant project.

Known for his thoughtful approach to materials and context, Souto de Moura’s portfolio spans residential houses, cultural buildings and significant restorations, such as the Santa Maria do Bouro Monastery in Amares, transformed into a Pousada. His work extends beyond Portugal to countries including Spain, Italy, Germany, the UK, and Switzerland.

In the academic sphere, Eduardo Souto de Moura has built a remarkable legacy as a professor at FAUP and a guest lecturer at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University, ETH Zurich, and La Sapienza in Rome. In addition to delivering numerous lectures, he has actively participated in discussions and events that enrich the field of architecture. His work continues to be exhibited, studied, and widely celebrated worldwide, reinforcing the enduring impact of his architectural vision, while he remains actively engaged in creating new projects that further this legacy.

A Portuguese photographer based in Lisbon, Paulo Catrica (b. 1965) studied photography at Ar.Co., Lisbon (1985), earned a BA in History from Univ. Lusíada, Lisbon (1992), an MA in Image and Communication at Goldsmiths, London (1997), and a PhD in Photography Studies at the Univ. of Westminster, London (2011). Since 2014, he has been a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Nova University of Lisbon.

Catrica has exhibited regularly in public and private institutions since 1997. His work is part of several notable collections, including the State Contemporary Art Collection, Portugal; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; EDP Foundation; PLMJ; Novo Banco; the Museum of London; Lisbon Photographic Archive; Portuguese Photography Centre; Catholic University, Porto; Dark Chamber (Torres Vedras); Petralia Sottana (Sicily); and the City Museum (Almada).

Renowned for her dedication to time-honoured photographic practices, Hélène Binet (b. 1959) is an internationally acclaimed Swiss and French photographer based in London. She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, the city in which she spent most of her formative years. Over more than 35 years, Binet has captured contemporary and historic architecture. She is a fervent advocate of analogue photography, working exclusively with film, and she believes that the soul of photography is an intricate relationship between the instant and the memory.

Binet's work has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions, including a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2021 and a solo exhibition at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, in 2019. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007 and, in 2015, was the recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. She was also the recipient of the 2019 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, awarded to a woman who has made a major contribution to architecture. She is one of the Royal Photographic Society's Hundred Heroines.