Nuno Brandão Costa

Nuno Brandão Costa (Oporto, 1970) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 1994, where he finished his PhD in 2013 and has been teaching since 1999. He did a curricular internship with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, from 1992 to 1993 and in 1998 he began his own project practice following having won 1st prize at the public competition for the project of the Library of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon. His work covers a considerable diversity of scales and programmes. The construction of the Campanhã Bus Terminal (TIC) and the rehabilitation and expansion of the São João de Deus social housing neighbourhood, both in Porto, are more recent and worth mentioning. His work was exhibited at the 8th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2004, at the Architecture Biennale of São Paulo in 2005, Portugal Now at Cornell University, New York in 2007, and the 17th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2021. He was nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2008, 2021 and 2023, for the BSI – Swiss Architectural Award in 2012, was a runner up of the FAD Award in 2017, and won the Expresso journal award for project in social, economic and environmental impact and the Gran Premio Enor 2023. www.brandaocosta.com