VENTURA TRINDADE architects is a Lisbon based architectural office, founded in 2005 by João Maria Ventura Trindade.

In 2009 the studio received the FAD ARCHITECTURE AWARD – Barcelona, Spain and was finalist in the AR AWARDS 2009 granted in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2010 was also prized in the VII BIENAL IBEROAMERICANA DE ARQUITECTURA Medellin, Colombia, and in the 2010 SECIL PRIZE of Architecture, Portugal. In 2011 was granted with the PREMIO DI ARCHITETTURA SOSTENIBILE of the Ferrara University, Italy and was also nominated for the 2010 IAKOV CHERNIKHOV PRIZE for young architects, granted by the Iakov Chernikhov Foundation in Moscow, Russia. The same year was nominated for the 2011 MIES VAN DER ROHE European Architecture Award, Barcelona, Spain. In 2014 received in Portugal the National Prize of Rehabilitation - IRHU 2013, together with Inês Lobo, with their project for the Renovation of the ‘Leões’ old Factory of the University of Évora’s School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Portugal;  

Among the projects of the studio are outstanding the Garducho Biological Station, in Mourão, Portugal;  the Renovation of the ‘Leões’ old Factory for the University of Évora’s School of Architecture and Visual Arts, Portugal; the Moura Municipal Museum, Portugal or the Liesma Hotel in Jurmala, Latvia. 
Recently the studio was one of the five selected teams for the final stage of the international competition for the refurbishment of the Montelungo-Coleoni Barracks in Bergamo, Italy, together with David Chipperfield, Nieto&Sobejano, Barozzi&Veiga and Inês Lobo, architects.

Its work was presented in exhibitions, lectures or published in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Holland, Germany, England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Russia, United States of America, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, South Korea, China and Japan.
It tooks part of the selection of eight Portuguese studios that represented Portugal in the scope of the UIA2011 Tokyo – 24th World Congress of Architecture and in the 9th International Biennial of Architecture of São Paulo, Brazil, in the exhibition and lectures program named “Tradition is Innovation”.

In 2015, after the aquisition and remodelling of a former warehouse in central Lisbon for it’s new studio, VENTURA TRINDADE  architects, lda. invited other partners to forming a multidisciplinary team of architects, engineers and other professionals working both individually or in a collective way. The name of this collective is yet to be defined…

Born in Évora, Portugal, in 1972.

Graduated in architecture at ESBAL/FAUTL, Lisbon, Portugal (1995).
Between 1993 and 2002 he collaborated at João Luís Carrilho da Graça´s office, in Lisbon.
Teacher of Architecture at Faculdade de Arquitectura – Lusíada’s University of Lisbon, between 1998 and 2009, at Evora’s University from 2009, at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura y Tecnologia (ESAYT), Madrid - Spain in 2011, at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon from 2015, and in several courses, workshops and seminars all over Europe.
Invite-Teacher in seminars, workshops and juries at Academia d’Archittetura di Mendrizio, Politecnico di Milano,  Instituto Universitário di Archittetura di Venezia, Universitá degli Studi di Trieste, Universitá degli Studi di Reggio Calabria, and in some other portuguese and foreign schools of architecture.
Between 2003 and 2004 he was a consultant for the Portuguese Ministry of Environment, responsible for managing the key projects for the Programa Polis.

Adelaide Alves Neves,    Ana Filipa Custódio,    Ana Pedro Ferreira,    Ana Rita Figueiredo,    André Monteiro Rosa,    Andrea Castellani,    Artur Cabral,    Bruno Jardim Fernandes,    Carlos Bruno Reis Banha,    Chiara Ternullo, Cláudio Manuel Velez, Daniela Silva, Eva Grillo, Filipe Carvalho, Filipe Miguel Ribeiro Nunes, Filipe Tuna Araújo, Giulia Castellarin, Gonçalo Pinheiro, Inês Machado, Joana de San Payo Pimenta, Joana Luz, João de Melo Veiga, João dos Santos Patriarca, João Mateus, Jorge Ferreira de Sousa, Jorge Vicente Rodrigues dos Santos, José Maria Cumbre, Liliana César Rodrigues, Lourenço Van Innis, Luis Bamond, Marcelo Moreira e Silva, Mariana Barbosa Mateus, Nélson Rodrigues, Nuno Fernando Afonso Marcos, Paulo Monteiro, Pedro Domingues Silva, Pedro Maria Ribeiro, Susana Terra Medeiros, Vasco Nobre Lopes, Vasco Rosa Tomás, Gabriele Catanzano, Francisco Pestana da Silva, .....