VENTURA TRINDADE architects is a Lisbon based architectural office, founded in 2005 by João Maria Ventura Trindade.
The studio received the FAD ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2009, granted in Barcelona, with its first built public project.
The same year was finalist in the AR AWARDS 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 was finalist 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 the National Prize of Rehabilitation IRHU 2013, together with Inês Lobo.
In 2015 VENTURA TRINDADE architects invited the studios SITE-SPECIFIC arquitectura lda. (Patrícia Marques/ Paulo Costa) and PLCO arquitecto (Pedro Oliveira) for an informal partnership.
As a result, in 2020 a formal joint venture was formed called VASSCO, ace, lda.
VASSCO is a failed attempt of an acronym with the initials of each company (VTA+SSA+PLCO) which ended up resulting in a kind of heteronym.
Born in Évora in 1972.
Architect at the studio of João Luís Carrilho da Graça, from 1993 to 2003.
Graduated at the School of Architecture of Lisbon in 1995, was a student of Manuel Aires Mateus.
Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Lusíada University in Lisbon, between 1997 and 2009; at Evora’s University betwen 2009 and 2016; at Escuela Superior de Arquitectura y Tecnologia, Madrid, in 2011; and at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, from 2015.
Invited-Professor and Guest-Lecturer in seminars, workshops and juries at Academia d’Archittetura di Mendrizio, Politecnico di Milano, Instituto Universitário di Archittetura di Venezia, Universitá di Firenze, Laboratorio d' Architettura di Mantova, Universitá di Trieste, Universitá di Reggio Calabria, School of Architecture of Porto, 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.
The work of the studio would not have been possible without the dedicated and competent collaboration of:
Alessandro Dini, Adelaide Alves Neves, Ana Filipa Custódio, Ana Pedro Ferreira, Ana Rita Figueiredo, André Monteiro Rosa, Andrea Castellani, Andrei Brinza, Artur Cabral, Bruno Jardim Fernandes, Carlos Reis Banha, Carolina Ramos, Chiara Ternullo, Cláudio Velez, Csaba Budai, Daniela Silva, Edyta Hubska, Eva Grillo, Federica Scarpa, Filipe Carvalho, Filipe Ribeiro Nunes, Filipe Tuna Araújo, Francisco Pestana da Silva, Gabriele Catanzano, 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, José Maria Cumbre, Liliana César Rodrigues, Lourenço Van Innis, Lorenzo Stefano Iannizzotto, Luis Bamond, Marcelo Moreira e Silva, Mariana Barbosa Mateus, Marco Tavares, Nadiya Trofimenko, Nélson Rodrigues, Nuno Marcos, Ottavia Franceschini, Paulo Monteiro, Pedro Domingues Silva, Philippe Ceschinski, Pedro Maria Ribeiro, Rita Gorjão Henriques, Silvia Toninello, Sylwia Pedziejewska, Susana Terra Medeiros, Vasco Diogo, Vasco Nobre Lopes, and Vasco Rosa Tomás.
