MArch Lecturers Studies: Correia/Ragazzi

DATE

04.11.2024

The studio was founded by Graça Correia, a Portuguese architect with a degree from the prestigious FAUP in Porto who, after completing her studies, worked for Eduardo Souto de Moura for six years and who combines her professional activity with teaching, and by Roberto Ragazzi, an Italian architect who studied at the IUAV who in 1998 moved to Porto and began working with the model maker Alvaro Negrello. In 2005, both of them founded the studio that bears their surnames.

They have numerous projects that have been recognised by critics and have been awarded with various prizes, perhaps the most notable being the one they received in New York within the framework of Europe 40 under 40, which consisted of a selection of the forty most relevant studios on the European scene made up of architects under forty years of age. In this line, they were also recognised as one of the forty promising architects under forty years of age by New Italian Blood. Other equally important recognitions are the silver medal of the Sparkaward in San Francisco or the Best Architects 2016 award, as well as the important Prémio Nacional de Rehabilitação Urbana awarded by the Portuguese government and won on two occasions.

Among their projects, many could be highlighted – the publishing house TC Cuadernos published a monograph collecting some of their most relevant works – but perhaps the residential ones are the ones that have occupied the most articles and covers in recent years. An example of this is the Ricardo Pinto house, in which they carried out a very interesting exercise both in terms of materiality and form; the house in Castelho Melhor, establishing a duality in terms of the use of concrete and stone, or the Agrotourism project in Melgaço, establishing a dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. These experiments have led them to work on the design of a tile system, based on tradition but full of innovation, demonstrating the versatility of the architectural profession.

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