João Paulo Vergueiro Monteiro de Sá Cardielos (Viana do Castelo, 1963). Architect by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (1986). Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Department of Architecture, since December 1992. In 2009 he defended the PhD Thesis entitled "The Construction of a Landscape Architecture — the importance of the relations, within the architecture design process, between detailed architectural designs and the scales of intervention and structuring of territories" — presented at the University of Coimbra and unanimously approved by the academic board members. He presently teaches, as Auxiliary Professor, the Landscape and Territory design studio, to the most advanced students of the Integrated Master's in Architecture, at the DArq-FCTUC. He is a researcher at the Center of Architectural Studies — from Territory to Design — of the University of Coimbra. Since 2009, his research on the subject evolved, concerning the increasing complex relations between the discipline of architecture and the hybrid territories and inhabited landscapes of the current urbanized condition. It comprehends the complex relations between the discipline of architecture and the other related subjects and disciplines, namely, philosophy, land-art and site-specific art, and landscape architecture that are deeply involved on the interrelated processes of landscapes' construction, in contemporary occidental world. The landscape theme continues to dominate its current research interests. He regularly integrates international research teams, and participates on Research Projects, whenever the Architecture and Landscape subjects or Nature Based Solutions for cities and buildings, are relevant. He presently cultivates his teaching, lecturing, and research experience within the Integrated Master's in Architecture at the DArq-FCTUC, but also in the EfS | Energy for Sustainability Initiative, where he teaches ‘Environment and Space Organization’ to the PhD students of the MIT-Portugal course, inside the University of Coimbra.