Carrilho da Graça architect, graduated from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa in 1977, the year in which he began his professional activity.

Assistant at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon from 1977 to 1992.

Professor at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa from 2001 to 2010 and at the University of Évora since 2005. Coordinator of the Department of Architecture at both institutions until the end of the year. 2010. Visiting professor at the Higher Technical School of Architecture at the University of Navarra in 2005, 2007 and 2010. Invited to seminars and conferences at various universities and international institutions.

A number of awards were awarded to his body of work, namely: the title of “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Republic in 2010, the “Person Prize” in 2008, the Bienal Internacional da Luz Prize - Luzboa in 2004, the order of merit of the Portuguese republic in 1999 and the “AICA - International Association of Art Critics’ Art” in 1992.

He was awarded the “Piranesi Prix de Rome” in 2010 for the musealization of the archaeological area of Praça Nova do Castelo de São Jorge, the “Fad” in 1999 and the “Valmor” in 1998 for the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas - EXPO’98, the “Secil Architecture Award” in 1994 from the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social de Lisboa, and nominated for the European Architecture Prize “Mies van der Rohe” in 1990, 1992, 1994, 2009, 2010 and 2011, this year for the pedestrian bridge over Ribeira da Carpinteira and for the musealization of the archaeological area of Praça Nova do Castelo de São Jorge.