Architect Day: ARX

Office formed by Portuguese architects Nuno and Jose Mateus in 1991, they present high quality projects, part of the culture of their country, where the architecture has become a world reference.

ARX ??Portugal Architects was founded in 1991 by architects Nuno and Jose Mateus, born in Castelo Branco and trained by FAUTL (Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon). In 1987, Nuno did Masters in ‘Science in Architecture and Building Design” at Columbia University in New York. He worked in the offices of Peter Eisenman in New York and Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, surely professional experiences that influence the office today.

Architect Day: ARX
Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Barreiro, Portugal. photo @ FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Matthew Joseph is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and has also held positions in the group Babel, the Southern Regional Meeting of the Association of Architects. He also teaches in schools of architecture in Lisbon and Barcelona. Together Jose and Nuno develop outstanding works, where the residential projects are highlighted by volumetric solutions, functional and aesthetic for each space created.

Casa em Possanca, Comporta, Portugal

Architect Day: ARX
photo @ FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Casa em Leiria, Portugal

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photo @ FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Conservatório de Música de Cascais, Portugal

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photo @ FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Habitação Unifamiliar, Martinhal , Portugal

Architect Day: ARX
photo @ FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Casa na Aldeia de Juso, Portugal

Architect Day: ARX
photo @ ARX

Biblioteca Municipal de Ílhavo, Portugal

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photo @ FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Casa no Romeirão, Ericeira, Portugal

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photo @ FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo, Portugal

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photo @ Daniel Malhão / FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Casa em Grândola, Portugal

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photo @ Daniel Malhão

About the author

My name is Marcelo Seferin, I’m an architect from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I’m the chief architect at Seferin Arquitetura, an office that works with architecture, interior design and sustainability projects. You can check our work at http://www.seferin.com.br and you can follow me at twiiter http://www.twitter.com/mseferin.