Pedro Bandeira
Portugal

Pedro Bandeira

Pedro Bandeira (1970), architect (FAUP 1996), is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho.

The Invitation from the Institute of Arts and the Ministry of Culture included the exhibition Metaflux in the Portuguese representation at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2004) and represented Portugal at the São Paulo Architecture Biennial (2005). Participated in the exhibition Portugal Now: Country Positions in Architecture and Urbanism (2007) organized by the School of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University (USA).

É author of the book Specific Projects for a Generic Client– an anthology of works developed between 1996 and 2006 (Porto: Editora Dafne). In 2007 he completed his doctoral thesis under the title Architecture as Image, Work as Representation: Subjectivity of Architectural Images.

He was commissioner of the northern region of the 2006-2008 edition of Portugal Habitar, co-commissioner of the international seminar Images of Architecture and Space ;o Público em Debate (FAUP, 2010) and the international seminar Megastructures: Architecture and Game, part of the ICSA International Congress (UM, 2010).

In December 2011 he was awarded the SIM Award (promoted by Samsung) for the Casa Girassol project, developed in co-authorship with Arq.ª Dulcineia Santos and Eng.º Filipe Bandeira. More recently, he designed the performance The Future is the Beginning for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the installation Weisses Rauschen at the Sitterwerk Art Library in St. Gallen and also the Relocation Proposal for the D. Maria Pia Bridge co-authored with Pedro Nuno Ramalho.