Gonçalo Byrne, current president of the Ordem dos Arquitetos, is the author, among others, of projects by the Rectory of the University of Aveiro, and by the Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, in Lisbon.

‘Gonçalo Byrne Architecture Guide – Portugal Built Projects’ is the title of the guide about the work of this architect, included in the collection dedicated to projects built in the country, which has already included the architects brothers Aires Mateus, Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Carrilho da Graça.

The work, in bilingual edition – Portuguese and English -, with texts by the architect Marta Sequeira, which locate the selected works, and an analysis text by the architect Michel Toussaint, frames the path of Gonçalo Byrne to the present, and will be launched with the presentation of the video installation ‘GB’, by Nuno Cera.

Nuno Cera carried out a national tour during which he recorded the work of this architect from his artistic gaze as a photographer and plastic artist.

Gonçalo Byrne, 80 years old, also signed the remodeling projects for several spaces at the D. Maria II National Theater, in the capital, the Alcobaça Monastery Museum, the Baleia Industrial Museum, in the Azores, the Faro Municipal Theater, and, outside Portugal, the Cité de La Musique in Geneva, Switzerland, among others.

Born in 1941, in Alcobaça, Leiria district, Gonçalo Byrne completed his training at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and is a doctor ‘honoris causa’ by the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, and by the University of Alghero, in Italy , according to information available on the Gonçalo Byrne Arquitetos website.

He was director of Jornal Arquitetos between 1985 and 1987 and founded, in 1991, the Gonçalo Byrne Arquitetos studio.

Over the years, he has also taught at various international universities, such as Harvard, in the United States, Milan and Venice, both in Italy, and Pamplona, ​​in Spain.

The ‘Gonçalo Byrne Architecture Guide – Projects Constructed Portugal’, a project that has the exclusive sponsorship of the Millennium bcp Foundation, will be presented on Thursday by the architect Susana Ventura, at 18:30.

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