Pedro Mendes Arquitectos, Lda.

Profile of Pedro Mendes Arquitectos, Lda.

Business Name

Pedro Mendes Arquitectos, Lda.

Location

Portugal

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.pmendes.com

Pedro Alexandre Aguiar Mendes

Principal(s)

Pedro Alexandre Aguiar Mendes (1966)

Philosophy

Architecture projects based on a strategic analysis of the problem with a sensitive definition of the subject and concept of the proposal.

Architecture: people, light, program, beauty, texture, site, context, ethic, landscape, aesthetical.

Projects: public buildings, public spaces, private buildings, furniture.

Pedro Mendes Arquitectos, Lda was created in 1997 by Pedro Mendes (1966) and Silvia Namorado (1964), who graduated at the faculty of Architecture of Porto

Background

• Founded: 1997
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 2

Key projects

• Community Arts Center, Mira Sintra / Cacem, Portugal, 2008
• Community Center and Adjoining Exterior Spaces, Alto do Forte/Rio de Mouro, Portugal, 2007
• Europan 8, Madeira, Portugal, 2005
• Kindergarten, Alcanena, Portugal, 2005
• House, Single family house, Estoril, Portugal, 2003
• House, Single family house, Pavia, Portugal, 2003
• Exhibition "Sala de Projecto # 10", Order of the Architects, Lisbon, Portugal, 2003
• "Island" in Rua das Aldas, Porto, Portugal, 2001
• Community Center, Almada, Portugal, 2000
• Project for a Restaurant e Kiosk for "Projecto Museu Virtual", Aula do Risco initiative, 1996

Key publications

• Arquitectura e Vida no. 87, Projecto, November, 2007
• Cubo no. 5, Tracos, September, 2007
• De Architectura no. 16, 2005
• Arquitectura & Construcao no. 30, May, 2005
• Architecture in Lisbon and the South of Portugal since 1974, Estremadura Norte, Lisboa I, Alto Alentejo, Ed. Blau, 2005
• Habitar Obras e Projectos - Pedro Mendes, Ed. Caleidoscopio, 2003
• Techniques & Architecture, Dossier Portugal 2003 - modern heterodoxy, June - July, 2003
• 2G Arquitectura Portuguesa, una nueva generacion, no. 20, 2001/IV
• "Arquitectura Contemporanea Portuguesa - Os ultimos dez anos", Ed. ASA, 2001
• Arq./A no. 4, Ano I, November/December 2000

Key awards

• 1st Enor Awards, Enor Elevators, Vigo, Spain, 2005 (finalist project)
• European Architecture Award "Luigi Cosenza" 2004, Napoli, Italy, 2004 (selected project)
• FAD Awards 2004, ARQ-INFAD, Barcelona, Spain, 2004 (selected project)
• European Architecture Award "Luigi Cosenza" 2004, Napoli, Italy, 2004 (jury special mention)
• Joao de Almada Award, Porto Town Hall, Porto, 2002
• Young Creators 1996, Portuguese Club of Arts and Ideas, Lisbon Portugal, 1996
• EASA, 1988 (honorable mention)
• 1st Portuguese Arts and Ideas Exhibition, 1987