Born in Lisbon in 1964, after completing high school degree he attended model drawing in the National Society of Fine Arts of Lisbon (1983-1984). He studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts (ESBAL), meantime renamed Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (FAUTL), where he obtained his degree in 1991. In 1999 he completed a postgraduate degree in Urban Design at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where in 2013 he defended a PhD thesis in Architecture on the theme Raul Lino – Arquitetura e paisagem (1900-1948). He practice architecture in liberal profession since 1992, and as a public servant at Lisbon Municipality, since 2000. Both as evaluator and author, he has repercussed his scientific knowledge in technical expertise on urban operations, requalification of public space and more recently, in studies and projects of urban design and architecture, in the housing sector. Convicted in the contemporary relevance of Raul Lino (1879-1974) thought and work, focused on the pioneering culturalist action of that architect in Portugal during the first half of the twentieth century, he has expanded new problems and interpretations contained on his research within the scientif community.