Curriculum Vitae
José Nuno Beirão
GENERAL DATA
Birth
Nationality
Address
Phone / fax /
mobile
June, 10th, 1965, Torres Novas, Portugal.
Portuguese
Home: Rua Amilcar Cabral, 19, 4ºL, 1750-018 Lisbon, Portugal
Home address in the Netherlands: Geerweg, 117, 2611VS Delft
Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, BT Department
Julianalaan, 134, 2628 BL Delft
Faculty of Architecture, TU Lisbon,
Rua Sá Nogueira | Pólo Universitário | Alto da Ajuda,
1349-055 Lisboa
Office: Bquadrado Arquitectos, Rua do Alto do Lagoal, 15, s.8, 2760-003
Caxias, Portugal
E-mail: [email protected] (office), [email protected]; [email protected] (TU
Lisbon); [email protected] (TU Delft)
+ 351 210 100 617
+ 351 96 655 29 67 (Portugal)
+ 31 639 251 449 (The Netherlands)
http://www.bquadrado.com
ACADEMICAL DEGREES
Jun. 05
Master degree in Urban Design
Department of Architecture, Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da
Empresa, ISCTE, Lisbon
Supervisor: José Pinto Duarte (IST).
Thesis: “Urban Grammars: towards a flexible urban design methodology”
Oct. 84 – Oct. 89
Architecture graduation
Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa FAUTL
(Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon)
Average classification: 15
Final project: 16 (Supervised by João Luís Carrilho da Graça)
Areas of
Interest
Architecture/ Housing and urban design systems/ Urban Design / Generative
Systems / Shape Grammars
José Nuno Beirão is now working on his PhD dissertation at the Faculty of
Architecture at TU Delft in the Netherlands. The research follows the subject of
his Master thesis and is integrated in a larger research project called City
Induction. The City Induction project is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e
Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal (PTDC/AUR/64384/2006), hosted by ICIST at TU
Lisbon, and coordinated by José P. Duarte. J.N. Beirão is funded by grant
SFRH/BD/39034/2007, from FCT.
The research is supervised by Rudi Stouffs, Sevil Sariyildiz and Henco
Bekkering.
ACADEMICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Sept. 01 – Aug. 07
INVITED ASSISTENT
Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa FAUTL
(Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon)
Teaches: Architecture and urban design (Architecture Degree, 5th year).
INVITED ASSISTANT
Universidade Internacional, Architecture Course
Sept. 99 – Jul. 00
Teaches: Architectural Project I (1st year); Geometry (1st year).
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE ON ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
AS ARCHITECT AND FOUNDER PARTNER
Bquadrado arquitectos, Lda., Urbanismo, Arquitectura e Design
since Jul. 98
Creates bquadrado arquitectos, an office of architecture and urban planning. See
detailed curriculum at www.bquadrado.com
Oct. 89 – Jul. 98
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AS ARCHITECT
Worked in competitions, designed and build several buildings of different scales.
Worked on many projects of interior design. See detailed curriculum at
www.bquadrado.com.
Jun. 91 – Jun. 92
AS PRACTICING ARCHITECT
At Gonçalo Byrne Office
Worked on the design several buildings of different scales. Worked also on an urban
detail plan.
Aug. 90 – Nov. 90
AS PRACTICING ARCHITECT
At António José Carrilho da Graça Office
Worked on the first studies for a 10 storey housing building and a small scale urban
plan.
AS PRACTICING ARCHITECT
At José Lamas Office
Worked on a competition for a large university building.
Apr. 90 – Jun. 90
Nov. 88 – Feb. 90
AS TRAINING ARCHITECT / AS PRACTICING
ARCHITECT
At João Pedro Falcão de Campos Office
Worked on several projects from preliminary studies to construction details.
ACADEMICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY
Sept. 01 – Aug. 07
PIII - Project III
FAUTL, Architecture Course, 5th year. Coordination by Prof. José Pinto Duarte.
Assistant.
Students are asked to develop urban design and housing projects on large scale
considering flexibility of solutions and customization. Students are advised to use
computers as a way of researching and experimenting solutions aiming diversity and
complexity.
Sept. 99 – Jul. 00
Projecto I
Universidade Internacional, Curso de Arquitectura. 1st year
Basic studies on architectural form and space.
Development of short exercises focused on individual problems: form, function, path,
light, space (interior and exterior), etc.
Context integration of the previous studies.
90 – 99
Various disciplines in high school
Geometry, 12th year, Geometry, 10th year, Design Theory, 11th year, Design Theory,
12th year, Drawing, 12th year, History of art, 11th and 12th year, and others.
PUBLICATIONS
Thesis
BEIRÃO, J. N. (2005) Gramáticas Urbanas: por uma metodologia de desenho urbano
fléxivel (Urban Grammars: Towards a Flexible Urban Design Methodology). Master
thesis on Urban Design, ISCTE, Lisboa.
Abstract. To provide urban plans with increased flexibility, it is proposed a design
methodology to produce various design solutions instead of a specific definitive
design. The methodology uses shape grammars as a process for generating urban
design.
The methodology is a synthesis resulting from the analysis of four urban plans chosen
for their perceived qualities in terms of language, planning efficiency, and latent
flexibility. This methodology was then combined with shape grammars and tested in a
design studio setting. Students were asked to use the methodology and shape grammars
as auxiliary instruments in the design of a flexible plan for a new town. In the
following year, work was structured differently to simulate real-world conditions. First,
students were asked to develop a rule-based urban plan as in the previous year. Second,
they were asked to conceive a detail plan for a sector of an urban plan defined by
another group of students following its rules. The plans were then analyzed with the
goal of refining the methodology.
Results show that shape grammars produce urban plans with non-definitive formal
solutions, while keeping a consistent spatial language. They also provide plans with
explicit and implicit flexibility, thereby giving future designers a wider degree of
freedom. Finally, they provide students with a concrete methodology for approaching
urban design and foster the development of additional designing skills.
Keywords. Shape grammars, flexible urban design.
Papers in
International
Conferences
BEIRÃO, JN, DUARTE, JP, 2005, Urban Grammars: Towards Flexible Urban Design,
in Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural
Design in Europe, eCAADe 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
BEIRÃO, J, DUARTE, J and STOUFFS, R, 2008, Structuring a Generative Model for
Urban Design: Linking GIS to Shape Grammars, Architecture in Computro - 26th
eCAADe Conference Proceedings, Antwerpen, pp. 929-938.
BEIRÃO, José and José DUARTE. 2009. Urban Design with Patterns and Shape
Rules, in Model Town: Using Urban Simulation in New Town Planning, 2nd
International New Town Seminar, 2007, Almere: EH Stolk and M Brömmelstroet,
(eds).
available at
http://www.bquadrado.com/paginas_web/targets/grammars.html
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE and Rudi STOUFFS. 2009a. Grammars of designs and
grammars for designing, Joining Languages, Cultures and Visions: CAADFutures
2009, PUM Canada: T. Tidafi and T. Dorta (eds). Available at:
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Search?search=Beir%e3o&paint=1
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE, Jorge GIL and Nuno MONTENEGRO. 2009b.
Monitoring urban design through generative design support tools: a generative
grammar for Praia, in Proceedings of the 15th APDR Congress on Networks and
Regional Development, Cidade da Praia, Cape Verde.
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE and Rudi STOUFFS. 2009c. An Urban Grammar for
Praia: Towards Generic Shape Grammars for Urban Design, Computation: The New
Realm of Architectural Design 27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings. 16-19
September 2009, Istanbul (Turkey). Pp. 575-584.
BEIRÃO, José, Nuno MONTENEGRO, Jorge GIL, José DUARTE and Rudi
STOUFFS. 2009d. The city as a street system: A street description for a city ontology,
SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of
Digital Graphics, November 16-18, 2009, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pp. 132-134.
GIL, Jorge, Nuno C. MONTENEGRO, José Nuno BEIRÃO, José Pinto DUARTE.
2009. On the Discovery of Urban Typologies: Data Mining the Multi-dimensional
Character of Neighbourhoods, Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design
27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings. 16-19 September 2009, Istanbul (Turkey). Pp.
269-278. http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?ecaade2009_148
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE and Rudi STOUFFS. 2010. Creating specific grammars
from generic grammars: towards flexible urban design, Nexus 2010, Relationships
between Architecture & Mathematics, Conference Edition of Nexus Network Journal
(forthcoming).
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE, Jorge GIL and Nuno MONTENEGRO. May 2010.
Monitoring Urban Design through Generative Support Tools: a generative grammar for
Praia, in Matalasov, M. (ed.), AMIT - Architecture and Modern Information
Technologies, http://www.marhi.ru/AMIT/, 2 (11) (forthcoming)
Books as Editor
DUARTE, J.P., e J. N. BEIRÃO (eds.) Customizing Mass Housing: a studio
experiment. Centro Editorial da Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de
Lisboa, 2003.
Other
publications
with references
to his
architectural
practice
3ª E.N.A. Catalog (Exposição Nacional de Arquitectura), 1992.
I.N.A. (Índice Nacional de Arquitectura), March, 1994.
Catalog - Competition INH – Inovar na Habitação, 1998.
Catalog - Europan 5, 1998.
Catalog - Europan 6 - Entrecidades, 2001.
Catalog - Polis Europan, 2002
Catalog - Competition Internacional Celebração das Cidades 2003 / 2004.
‘Lisbon, a guide to recent Architecture’, 1998. Shoe Shop Bandarra (R. de Santa Justa)
was chosen as cover.
LAND, Carsten, et alt, ‘Arquitectura em Lisboa e Sul de Portugal desde 1974’, pp.
007, 008, 010, 159, 160, 408, ed. BLAU, 2005, Lisboa. (Architecture Guide).
Participation in
International
Conferences
BEIRÃO, J.N.; DUARTE, J.P. Urban Grammars: Towards Flexible Urban Design,
eCAADe 2005. 23rd International eCAADe Conference. September 17-20, 2005,
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, September, 2005.
(with presentation)
Invited lecturer for the II International New Town Seminar, Almere, The Netherlands 11-12, October, 2007. http://www.newtowninstitute.org/files/u8/summariesB.pdf
BEIRÃO, JN and DUARTE, JP, 2009, Urban Design with Patterns and Shape Rules,
in EH Stolk and M Brömmelstroet, (eds), New Town Simulation - 2nd International
Seminar, 2007, Almere.
BEIRÃO, J, DUARTE, J and STOUFFS, R, 2008, Structuring a Generative Model for
Urban Design: Linking GIS to Shape Grammars, Architecture in Computro - 26th
eCAADe Conference Proceedings, Antwerpen, pp. 929-938.
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE and Rudi STOUFFS. 2009a. Grammars of designs and
grammars for designing, Joining Languages, Cultures and Visions: CAADFutures
2009, PUM Canada: T. Tidafi and T. Dorta (eds).
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE, Jorge GIL and Nuno MONTENEGRO. 2009b.
Monitoring urban design through generative design support tools: a generative
grammar for Praia, in Proceedings of the 15th APDR Congress on Networks and
Regional Development, Cidade da Praia, Cape Verde.
BEIRÃO, José, José DUARTE and Rudi STOUFFS. 2009c. An Urban Grammar for
Praia: Towards Generic Shape Grammars for Urban Design, Computation: The New
Realm of Architectural Design 27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings. 16-19
September 2009, Istanbul (Turkey). Pp. 575-584.
BEIRÃO, José, Nuno MONTENEGRO, Jorge GIL, José DUARTE and Rudi
STOUFFS. 2009d. The city as a street system: A street description for a city ontology,
SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of
Digital Graphics, November 16-18, 2009, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pp. 132-134.
Third Design Computing and Cognition Conference 08 at Atlanta, June, 21st – 25th
(http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/ ). With presentation at the workshop.
(without
presentation)
Permacity Conference, – 27-28, November, 2007.
http://permacity.ifou.org/mainmenu.html
Complexity Theory of Cities, Conference, TU Delft, Sept 25-27, 2009.
National
Conferences and
lectures
Presentation of personal architectural and urban design work – integrated in a set of
conferences called ‘A Prat(ic)a da Casa’ (House Practice), FAUTL, May, 2005.
(with presentation)
Invited lecturer by the Faculty of Architecture, Catholic University of Viseu, Portugal.
Lecture entitled “Customized Architecture and Urban Design”. April, 27th, 2009.
Invited lecturer by the Faculty of Architecture, Universidade de Campinas, Brasil.
Lecture entitled “Strengths and opportunities for shape grammar approaches to urban
design: The generation module for City Induction”. November, 23rd, 2009.
Workshop and
conference
organization
Workshop South Periphery: a territory. With Willy Muller (Inst. de Arquitectura
Avanzada de Catalunya). FAUTL, 9th to 12th, December, 2004. Scientific Coordinator
– José Pinto Duarte. Organizers: José Nuno Beirão, Carlos P. Sant’Ana.
Workshop South Periphery: a house. With Manuel Gausa (Inst. de Arquitectura
Avanzada de Catalunya). FAUTL, 10th to 13th, March, 2005. Scientific Coordinator –
José Pinto Duarte. Organizers: José Nuno Beirão, Carlos P. Sant’Ana.
Organization of the workshop ‘Generative Urban Design’ for the Third Design
Computing and Cognition Conference 08 at Atlanta on June, 21st
(workshop
information
and
workshop
proceedings
available
at
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/ ).
Articles on his
architecture
work in
architecture
magazines
Jornal dos Arquitectos, nº 94/95, January, 1991.
Architecti, nº 25, June/July/August, 1994.
Casa e Decoração, nº 147, January, 1998 – interview focusing on the design of shops.
Architecti, nº 41, May / June /July, 1998.
Arq./A nº6 – March/April, 2001.
Prototypo nº6, 2001.
Arquitectura e Vida, nº56, ‘bquadrado’, interview, article on ‘Urban Extrusion,
400.000 habitaciones’ in Barcelona, pp. 66-69, Jan 2005, Lisboa.
Arquitectura & Construção, nº33, reference to Plug-n’-play House in the article about
the exposition ‘Uma Casa Portuguesa’, on Experimenta Design 05, November, 2005.
Arq./A nº36 – March/April, 2006. Reference to Plug-n’-play House in article about the
exposition ‘Uma Casa Portuguesa’.
Revista Construir – interview with José Nuno Beirão and Miguel Salgado Braz on the
work of bquadrado arquitectos – June, 2006.
Revista Construir – article on plug-n’-play house – July, 2006.
Critical articles
in architecture
magazines
(as author)
Arquitectura e Vida, nº66, article on ‘A forma do pão’ Clínica do pão, Lisboa, Archs.
Aguiar & Cabral, Dec. 2005, Lisboa.
Was responsible for the section on interior architecture for the architecture magazine
Arquitectura e Vida, writing all the articles published between February 2006 and
October 2007.
SUPERVISION OF ACADEMICAL WORK
Supervision of
professional
training and
final report for
the 6th year of
architectural
graduation
Student: Joana Arala Gomes.
Office Supervisor: Arq. Alexandra Cantante
Theme: Projects for Religious Buildings
Office: Atelier Alexandra Cantante
Situation: concluded in 2003
Student: Catarina Lima Pimenta
Office Supervisor: Arq. José Pinto Duarte
Theme: Development of a VisualLisp implementation for customising houses.
Local: Instituto Superior Técnico
Situation: concluded in March, 2003
Student: Rita Ramires Nunes
Office Supervisor: Arq. José Pinto Duarte
Theme: Development of a VisualLisp implementation for customising houses.
Local: Instituto Superior Técnico
Situation: concluded in March, 2003
Student: Natália Ferreira
Office Supervisor: Arq. João Branco Pedro
Theme: Investigation on sustainable housing
Local: LNEC
Situation: concluded in March, 2003
Student: Ana Loff Barreto
Office Supervisor: Arq. Ana Paula Pinheiro
Theme: Architecture – work on different projects
Office: RBD.APP-Arquitectos, Lda.
Situation: concluded in June, 2004
Student: Berta Mota
Office Supervisor: Arq. Manuel Gausa
Theme: Projecto HyperCatalunia
Office: Actar Arquitectura
Situation: concluded in March, 2003
Student: Ana Margarida Botelho
Office Supervisor: Arq. Manuel Gausa
Theme: Architecture – work on different projects and competitions
Office: Actar Arquitectura
Situation: concluded in March, 2003
Student: Joana Lages
Office Supervisor: Arq. Willy Muller
Theme: Project HyperCatalunia
Office: Atelier Willy Muller
Situation: concluded in March, 2003
Student: Bárbara Morgado
Office Supervisor: Arq. Pedro Rodrigues / Arq. João Luís Ferreira
Theme: Architecture – work on different housing projects
Office: PR. Arquitectura Global / Promontório Arquitectos
Situation: concluded in April, 2003
Student: Vanda Cintra
Office Supervisor: Arq. Tânia Rodrigues
Theme: Architecture – work on different projects – laboratories
Office: ZT_ Arquitectos, Lda.; Arq. Gonçalo Byrne; Arq. Thomas Zinterl
Situation: concluded in July, 2004
Student: Ricardo Sá
Office Supervisor: Arq. Rick Brown
Theme: Architecture – work on different housing projects
Office: Rick Brown, Cape Town, Africa do sul
Situation: concluded in July, 2004
Student: Ana Luísa Natário
Office Supervisor: Arq. Manuel Gausa
Theme: Architecture – work on different projects and competitions
Office: Actar Arquitectura
Situation: concluded in April, 2005
Student: Margarida Dinis Cavaleiro
Office Supervisor: Arq. Ana Marta Clemente e Drª Helena Rodrigues
Theme: Inventory on Patrimonial Architecture
Local: DGEMN – Direcção Geral dos Edifícios e Património Arquitectónico
Situation: concluded in April, 2005
Student: João Vale de Gato
Office Supervisor: Arq. Ricardo Camacho
Theme: Architecture – work on different projects and competitions
Office: Emitflesti
Situation: concluded in July, 2005
Student: Beatriz Ribau
Office Supervisor: Arq. Flávia Quintanilha e Rodrigo de Sousa
Theme: Architecture – work on different housing projects
Office: Rio de Janeiro
Situation: concluded in September, 2005
Student: Maria Ana Vasco Costa
Office Supervisor: Arq. David Adjaye
Theme: Architecture – work on different projects
Office: David Adjaye, Londres
Situation: conclusion in 2006
Student: Nuno Lucas
Office Supervisor: Arq. Costa Macedo
Theme: Architecture – work on different housing projects
Office: Linda-a-Velha
Situation: conclusion in 2006
Student: André Góis Fernandes
Office Supervisor: Arq. Victor Coelho
Tema: 3D modelling
Office: Atitude Virtual, Lisboa
Situation: conclusion in 2006
Student: Daniel Silveira
Office Supervisor: Arq. Erick van Egeraart
Theme: Large scale Competitons
Office: EEA, Holanda
Situation: conclusion in 2006
Student: Ágata Fontes
Office Supervisor: Arq. Telmo Barata
Theme: Architecture – work on different housing projects
Office: Dinamarq, lda.
Situation: concluded in June 2006
Supervision of training architects as office patron and responsible entity before the Portuguese Architects
Order, the FAUTL or other such as the DaVinci program.
Training architect at bquadrado arquitectos: Sara Serra
Theme: Various Competitions on the topic of housing customisation. Development of
detail projects.
Architectural Training for: 6th year at FAUTL. Architectural training before graduation.
Situation: concluded in 2003
Training architect at bquadrado arquitectos: Bruno Valente
Theme: Various Competitions on the topic of housing customisation. Development of
detail projects.
Local: bquadrado arquitectos.
Architectural Training for: professional training for the Portuguese Architects Order.
Situation: concluded in 2004
Training architect at bquadrado arquitectos: Jacobo Déniz Déniz (Las Palmas, Canárias)
Theme: Various Competitions on the topic of housing customisation. Development of
detail projects.
Architectural Training for: Leonardo DaVinci Grant (Las Palmas, Canárias)
Situation: concluded in 2004
Training architect at bquadrado arquitectos: Carlos Brites
Theme: Various Competitions. Development of detail projects and preliminary studies.
Architectural Training for: professional training for the Portuguese Architects Order.
Situation: concluded in 2005
Training architect at bquadrado arquitectos: Maria Inês Teixeira
Theme: Various Competitions. Development of detail projects and preliminary studies.
Architectural Training for: 6th year at FAUTL. Architectural training before graduation.
Situation: concluded in 2005
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Member of the Pedagogical Council at Universidade Internacional,
Lisboa.
2000
President of the Pedagogical Council for the Architecture Graduation at
Universidade Internacional, Lisboa.
2000
EXPOSITIONS
Plug-n’-play House
Exposition ‘Uma Casa Portuguesa’, in Experimenta Design 2005, Lisbon
Art Bienal, Lisbon, September/October 2005. Exposition shows
propositions of 12 Portuguese offices for the future Portuguese house.
bquadrado arquitectos proposes Plug-n’-play House, a customizable
house with autonomous additionable nucleous plugged in a rigid common
space. Bquadrado was one of the 12 invited offices.
Sept. 05
Caldas da Rainha, Laboratório Urbano (exposition about the students
work developed at FAUTL showing the final projects for graduation –
works where supervised by José Pinto Duarte and José Nuno Beirão)
Caldas da Rainha Town Hall, Caldas da Rainha, April 2004
Apr. 04
Commercial space architecture
Exposition at the school of arts Escola Secundária António Arroio during
96-97 school year, about built commercial spaces. This exposition
focused on the shoe shop projects and showed photos along with detailed
drawings. Invited by the School Directive Council.
Mar. 97
Various projects
3ª Exposição Nacional de Arquitectura, at the Portuguese Architects
Association.
Mar. 92
Old wall of Óbidos – Competiton project
1st Architecture Triennial of Évora - exposition of distinguished and
prized competitors.
91
ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE (PROJECTS AS AUTHOR OR CO-AUTHOR)
Works
In Bquadrado Arquitectos, Lda.
Jul. 98 – present
All projects co-authored with Miguel Salgado Braz (projects
previous to 1998 are co-authored with Miguel Salgado Braz)
1991
Competition Público para o 'Monumento aos Combatentes do
Ultramar', Lisboa
1993
Limited Competition for the 2nd Sintra Trienal (4th prize).
1995 - 2000
Santos Viana House, in Alenquer. (Built)
1997 – 1999
Shoe Shop Violeta, R. Sta. Justa, Lisbon. (Built). Selected for the
exposition ‘Prémio Pedra na Arquitectura’ ‘Stone in Architecture
Prize’.
1998
'Andrew's Ties' shop, Átrio Saldanha, Lisbon (Built)
1998
Shoe Shop Violeta (III version), R. Sta. Justa, Lisbon
1998 – 2002
Urban plan transformation, Novo Rumo Plan, Moita.
1998
Competition – Ideas for the Exposalão entrance hall. - 4th
1998 - 1999
Restaurant 'Loja das Iguarias', Telheiras, Lisbon. (Built)
1999
Silveira e Lorena House, Zambujal, Mafra.
1999 - 2000
Office Emplanta, Campo Grande, Lisbon. (Built)
1999 - 2001
Project for a gymnasium "Geração Fitness", Moita. (Built)
1999 - 2001
Project for an apartment building, Alhos Vedros. (Built)
1999 - 2003
Project for an apartment building, Moita. (Built)
2000
Project for 4 houses, Sarilhos Pequenos. (In construction)
2000 - 2004
Project for 2 twin houses, Chão Duro. (Built). Published on Arq./a
n.6.
2000
Urban plan for Quinta da Gouveia (50 dwellings), Alhos Vedros.
Published on Arq./a nº6.
2000
Competition for a student residence for I.S.T. in Tagus ParK, Oeiras.
2000
House extension, António Pereira House, Chão Duro. (4 versions for
alternative programs).
2000
Urban plan (80 dwellings), Baixa da Banheira.
2000 - 2001
Ana Ferreira House, Chão Duro. (Built)
2001 - 2006
Farrajota House, three different designs for house extension,
Alenquer and construction of the third design proposal. (Built)
2001 - 2003
Silveira e Lorena House (2nd version), Zambujal, Mafra. (Built)
2001
Competition for Polis program Centre – Coimbra.
2001
Competition for Polis program Centre – Guarda.
2001
Competition for Tomihiro Museum of Shi-ga, International
Competition– Azuma – Japan.
2002
Public Competition for Law University (FDUNL), Lisbon.
2002
Office interior design - Era Arqueologia (Built)
2002
Marques da Costa House (Built)
2002
Public Competition for ESTIG included in Polytechnic Institute of
Beja.
2002
Construction project and detailing for 71 dwellings in Colinas de
Barcarena - (following original project by Qualidade Urbana, lda –
outsourcing – in construction).
2002
Preliminary Plan for archeological site, Perdigões – Reguengos de
Monsaraz. Study for possible developments of interpretation,
investigation centre and surrounding areas. Study for archeological
classification.
2003 - 2009
Execution project for Basic Schooll EB1 (primary school), Loures (for Loures Town Hall). (Built)
2003
Competition UIA - Setúbal
2003
Competition ‘Landmark Tower/U2 Studio’ – Union Tower, Dublin
2003
Competition ‘Landmark Tower/U2 Studio’ – Structural Blocks /
Evolution Guidelines, Dublin
2003
Pedro Rato House - Marvão, Ericeira
2004
Archeology Exposition – Torre do Esporão – Reguengos de
Monsaraz (Built). Co-authored with the archeologist team (Era
Arqueologia) and designers (Ideia ilimitada).
2004
Public Competition for a Detail Plan for Rossio – S. Gonçalo –
Amarante. 1st prize.
2004
Competition Internacional 400.000 habitaciones, Barcelona.
2004
Public Competition - Ideas for the Archeological Area in Ocreza
Valley. 1st Honorable Mention.
2004
International Competition - Ideas for Kakolanmaki, Turku, Finland.
2004
Project industrial facilities: fish and meat packaging – Sintra.
2005
International Competition - Ideas for Akureyri, Iceland - Vision
Akureyri.
2005
Invitation Competition for 2 office buildings and pedestrian bridge,
Lispólis, Lisbon.
2005
Competition - Ideas for Barreiro Market and surrounding areas.
2005
José Poeira House, Galamares, Sintra.
2005
Plug'nplay.pt House for the Exposition ‘Uma Casa Portuguesa’ in
Experimenta Design 05, Lisbon.
2005
Competition for Town Market and public garden of Barreiro.
2006
Architectural Competition for the Lepola-Ristinummi area in
Jarvenpaa, Finland.
2007
Competition for the extension of the Art Museum of Saarbrucken,
Germany.
2007
Preliminary study for housing facilities for elderly people, Alhos
Vedros, Portugal.
2007
Renovation of HSeabra office (Built).
2007
Preliminary study for the headquarters of HSeabra Angola in Luanda,
Angola.
2007
Preliminary study for a wood pre-fabricated evolutionary housing
system for warm climates – Luang House.
2007
Preliminary study for a pre-fabricated evolutionary housing system
Green Modular.
2008
Extension of HSeabra office (Built).
Projects (developed alone or with other architects – as detailed)
1990
Public Competition for a university building - ISEG. Ajuda
University Campus, Lisbon. 3rd prize. In collaboration with José
António Martinez, Miguel Salgado Braz and Miguel Seixas e Sousa
on the second phase of the Competition.
1990
Public Competition – Ideas for the old wall of Óbidos (3rd prize).
Honorable mention on the de Architecture Triennial of Évora, 1991
(jury Álvaro Siza, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, Fernando Távora,
João Vieira and Mário Barradas).
1990
Shoe Shop Bandarra (I), R. Sta. Justa, Lisboa. (Built). Published in
Architécti nº25 and Casa e decoração nº147. Selected for cover of
‘Lisbon – a guide to recent architecture’, Ed. Ellipsis, London.
1991
Public Competition for Seixal Town Hall. (Co-author with architects
Miguel Salgado Braz, José António Martinez and Miguel Seixas e
Sousa)
1991
Limited Competition for ISCSP, Ajuda University Campus, Lisbon
(3rd prize). (Co-authored with architects Miguel Salgado Braz, José
António Martinez and Miguel Seixas e Sousa)
1991 - 1994
‘Luis Domingos e Irmão’ new factory (Opel), Castelo Branco. (Built)
(Co-authored with architects Miguel Salgado Braz, José António
Martinez and Miguel Seixas e Sousa)
1992
‘Kilograma’ Shop (fast food), Lisbon. (Built)
1992
Public Competition for remodelling Bolhão Market, Porto.
1992 - 1995
‘Rossiauto’ installations (Opel), Ponte de Sôr. (Co-authored with
architects Miguel Salgado Braz, José António Martinez and Miguel
Seixas e Sousa)
1993 - 1997
Bessone Basto House, Alenquer. (Built). Published in Casa e
decoração nº147. (Built)
1993
Public Competition Ideas for Expo 98.
1993
Urban plan for Parreiras, Alenquer. Co-authored with Miguel Seixas
e Sousa.
1994 - 1999
‘Casa Grande’. Traditional house remodelling and adaptation for
turism, Cabeço de Vide. (Built)
1994
Public Competition for a monument to the city of Montijo (Secil –
concrete sculpture) – 2nd prize.
1994
House remodelling - Dr. António Almeida House, Restelo, Lisbon.
1995
Shoe Shop Bandarra (II), Olivais Comercial Centre, Lisbon. (Built).
Published in Casa e decoração nº147.
1995
Shoe Shop Ratinho (I), Centro Comercial dos Olivais, Lisboa.
(Built). Published in Casa e decoração nº147.
1995 - 2005
Casa Jorge Farrajota, Alenquer. (Built)
1996
Shoe Shop Bandarra (III), Av. Roma, Lisboa (Built). Published in
Casa e decoração nº147.
1996 - 1997
House remodelling - Miguel Farrajota House, Restelo, Lisbon. (Built)
1996
Public Competition for Chamusca Library.
1996
Building restauration - nº 55, Av. Roma, Lisboa. (Executed)
1997
Shoe Shop Ratinho (II), R. Sta. Justa, Lisboa. (Built)
1997
Shoe Shop Hellius, Minho Comercial Centre, Braga. (Built).
Published in Casa e decoração nº147.
1997
Hoover Storehouse, Lisbon.
1997
Shoe Shop Hellius, Massamá Comercial Centre.
1998 - 1999
House recover in the historical centre of Constança.
1998
Shoe Shop Violeta (versão II), R. Sta. Justa, Lisbon.
1998
Competition Europan 5, Chelas, Lisbon - Portugal. (Co-authored with
Pedro Sol, Nuno Arenga, Paulo M. Pedro, Rafael Calado, Nuno
Vale).
1998
Competition INH – Inovar na Habitação, Vila Franca de Xira Portugal. (Co-authored with Pedro Sol, Nuno Arenga, Paulo
M. Pedro, Rafael Calado, Nuno Vale, Octávio Queiroz).
2001
Competition Europan 6, Setúbal - Portugal. (Co-authored with
Sónia Taborda Barata, Paulo M. Pedro, Filipa M. Pedro).
2003
Competition Europan 7, Den Haag – Holanda. (Co-authored with
Prof José Pinto Duarte, and Ana Luísa Gonçalves, Ana Rita Ramires
Nunes, Catarina Lima Pimenta and Déborah Benrós).
2003
Competition Europan 7, Guadalajara – Espanha. (Co-authored with
Prof José Pinto Duarte , and Ana Luísa Gonçalves, Ana Rita
Ramires Nunes, Catarina Lima Pimenta and Déborah Benrós).
2001 - 2005
Morton Feldman House - experimental project.
2005
Customizable housing systems for the western expansion area plan
for Caldas da Rainha. Developed as a preliminary study to be
integrated in the Detail Plan for the referred area. (Co-authored with
José Pinto Duarte).
Jun. 91 – Jun. 92
At Gonçalo Byrne’s Office (as practicing architect)
Sea Centre and Aquarium, Cais do Carvão, Funchal, Madeira Islands.
Public Competition for the Faculty of Informatics and Electronics, Coimbra University
Campus (1st prize).
Administration building for Setubal town hall.
Detail plan for Quinta da Churrasqueira, Albarraque.
At António José Carrilho da Graça’s Office (as practicing
architect)
Aug. 90 – Nov. 90
Urban plan for Ribeira de Baco, Portalegre.
Housing building for journalists, Lisbon.
At José Lamas’s Office (as practicing architect)
Apr. 90 – Jun. 90
Public Competition Público for ISEG, Ajuda University Campus, Lisbon.
At João Pedro Falcão de Campos’s Office (as practicing
architect)
Nov. 88 – Feb. 90
Housing and office facilities for Serviço Nacional de Parques. Natural Reservation
Berlenga.
Instalations, showroom and Offices, Citroen, Av. 24 de Julho (preliminary study).
Old building recovery, Santa Casa da Misericórdia, Rua dos Sapateiros, 133, Lisbon.
Restaurant remodeling in Albufeira.
Housing recovery, Santa Casa da Misericórdia, Travessa da fábrica das sedas, 31,
Lisboa.
Pignatelli House, Fonte Boa dos Nabos, Ericeira.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Invited for the 2nd Lisbon Pecha-Kucha. Presentation of Plug-n’Play
House and customization software. September, 3rd, 2007 (the design was
presented by Miguel Braz).
2007
Presentation available at www.bquadrado.com
OTHER INFORMATIONS
Languages
Portuguese (born language), English (very good), French (basic), Spanish (good)
Informatics
GIS and City simulation: AutoCadMap3D, AutoCadCivil3D, CityZoom, City Engine.
CAD: AutoCad, VectorWorks (basics), RenderWorks (basics). Image and rendering:
Art Lantis, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady. Text: MSWord. Ilustration:
Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Ilustrater, Adobe InDesign. . WebDesign: Adobe GoLive.
Knowledge and programming practice on Visual Lisp and basic experience on VBA
for AutoCad. Others: MSPowerpoint, MSExcel. Introduction workshop on Generative
Components.
Associations
OA – Ordem dos Arquitectos Portugueses. Nº - 3762
Oct. 89 – present
(Member of the Portuguese Architects Association)
Other activities
Non detailed Curriculum. Professional experience on illustration and graphic design.
Extensive curriculum of prizes and activities related with work on comic strips and
illustration between 1980 and 1990.
Sculpture Medal work
3 years of practice and learning Medal work technology – integrated on the sculpture
course of ESBAL – supervised by Prof Sculptor Helder Batista.
3rd prize – competition - medal to commemorate the first century of the birth of
Amadeu de Souza Cardoso.
3rd prize – competition - medal to commemorate the first century of Jornal de
Noticias.
3rd prize – competition - medal for the city of Seixal, Portugal.
Photography
Painting
Has a vast curriculum of photography prizes and has professional experience on
architecture photography. Several years of practice and teaching black and white
photography.
Made several drawing and painting expositions between 1983 and 1995.
Design
Logos –
Shoe Shop Bandarra (logo and design integration on card, letter and envelope);
Loja das Iguarias (design integration on card, letter, envelope, menu and
pictograms);
bquadrado arquitectos (all material co-authored by José Nuno Beirão and Miguel
Salgado Braz) – on the first logo version and furniture design catalog design was coauthored with Patrícia Braga; on the second logo version and card design was coauthored with Sara Serra; website design was co-authored with Carlos Brites;
Loja Kilograma (logo and design integration on card, letter and envelope);
Furniture Design–
Bed ‘Jangada’
Suspended shelves
Office archive furniture
Table and chairs
Glass table
Television and HIFI furniture
Office meeting table for ‘Jular’
More information and portfolio can be found at www.bquadrado.com
Updated: 18 – 05 – 2009
José Nuno Dinis Cabral Beirão