Pedro Belo Ravara (Lisbon, 1964). GRADUATED IN ARCHITECTURE FROM THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LISBON IN JUNE 1988 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE FROM THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING / STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK @ BUFFALO ON FEBRUARY 1, 1993 RECOGNITION OF THE MASTER'S DEGREE BY THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LISBON ON APRIL 12, 1995 DOCTORAL DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE OBTAINED FROM THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LISBON ON JUNE 04, 2008 Lived and studied in the United States between 1991 and 1993 as a Fulbright Scholar, where he completed a Master of Architecture and Building Design degree at the State University of New York in 1993; Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon between 1998 and 2008. Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon between 2008 and 2018 Visiting Professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Minnesota State University, where he was Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor in 1998. Visiting Professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences from April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2020. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon since April 2020. He lived and worked in Macau between 1988 and 1991, where he worked at Atelier Manuel Vicente, Projectistas e Consultores, Lda, as a project architect and project coordinator; He worked in the studios of Manuel Graça Dias and João Luís Carrilho da Graça between 1996 and 1998; In 1991 he founded BAIXA, Atelier de Arquitectura, Lda. with the architect Nuno Vidigal, in Lisbon, where he has developed urban planning, architecture, interior architecture and consultancy projects in the field of architecture and project management. Member of the National Council of Delegates of the Portuguese Architects' Association in 2008/2010. Member of the National Board of Directors of the Order of Architects, with responsibility for the Profession in the 2011/2013 triennium. Vice-Chairman of the National Board of the Order of Architects for the 2014/2016 triennium. Advisor to the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development, between September 2015 and February 2017. OA representative on the Council of Architects of Europe in various working groups, from 2011 until February 2017. Coordinator of the Responsible Architecture Thematic Area of the Council of Architects of Europe from the beginning of 2016 until December 2017. Member of the Executive Board of the Council of European Architects from the beginning of 2016 until December 2017. He has had his own studio in Lisbon since 1991, with the architect Nuno Vidigal, where he develops architectural and urban planning projects. He represented Portugal at the São Paulo Biennial in 2009. He was a jury member for the SECIL Architecture Prize 2008 (national prize). He has built work in Portugal, Macau and Madeira, as well as studies and projects for other territories such as Switzerland, the United States, Mozambique and Spain. He believes that the relationship between professional practice in the studio and the teaching of Design in the Faculty is absolutely essential to both practices (professional and academic), complementing them. Her doctoral dissertation focuses precisely on the practice of design as one of the initial and influential "languages" of European Modernism.