I am a Portuguese-born, British architect, writer, and artist, currently Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Inscriptive Practices Lead at the Manchester School of Architecture. My academic journey has taken me from the University of Lisbon to the University of California, Berkeley, and now to the Bartlett School of Architecture, where I am pursuing a PhD in Architecture by Design.
At the heart of my work lies a fascination with the unknown, the unformed, and the not-yet. My research moves between speculative drawing, visual studies, and experimental architecture, seeking to explore how architecture may be imagined, constructed, and thought otherwise. Through the lens of speculative assemblies, I engage with visual and spatial constructs that resist closure—embracing abstraction, ambiguity, and cross-disciplinary encounters as methods to unsettle conventional modes of architectural production.
With over fifteen years of experience in practice, including at Richard Rogers and Partners, my work bridges the precision of professional architecture with the open-endedness of experimental inquiry. As founder of Speculative Assemblies, I approach drawing not as a static image, but as a living apparatus—a site where representation becomes invention, and where architecture emerges as an ongoing negotiation between thought, matter, and form.
In my practice, drawing is never an end in itself, but a continuous unfolding—an active, speculative field where architecture is always in the process of becoming.
