Luís Tavares Pereira (PT)

Luís Tavares Pereira born in Lisbon, 1966, is Vice-President of the Architects’ Association at Porto (OASRN), and founding partner of architectural studio [A] ainda arquitectura, currently involved in a series of cultural projects in Tbilisi, Georgia. Graduated from the architecture school of University of Porto (FAUP, 1991), M.Arch (Princeton University, 1996). He was curator of “Toll Free” exhibition, Faro, 2007, and co-curator of the Guest Countries exhibition, for the 1st Lisbon Architecture Triennale, 2007 (TAL’07), where he also curated the international conference “The Heart of the city”. He was co-curator of “Metaflux: two generations in portuguese recent architecture” for the Venice Biennale, 2004; the multimedia project “Records of a Transformation” on the urban transformation of Porto 2001, the “Museus de Arte (Art Museums)” international conference, Serralves/OASRN, 2005, and of the Prototypo Architecture Seminar “Performing the city”, an international seminar held in Porto, 2001. At OASRN he co-curated the “Reunião de Obra/Site Meeting” exhibition series, the “In Transit” lecture series, or the “Road to Wonderland” Young Portuguese Architects lecture series. He was also co-responsible for the “I love Távora” series, and instituting the Travel Grant “Fernando Távora” after the famous Portuguese architect recently deceased.

Selected [A] ainda arquitectura projects include the Creative Industries Pavilion for SerralvesMuseum, Porto; conversion of the Ferraz-Bravo17th Century house for luxury Hotel, Porto (with Promontório Architects); Private residence, at Louro, included in 2G Dossier “Portugal 2000-2005: 25 buildings of the 21st Century”; the travelling exhibition that opened at the 2004 Venice Biennale “Metaflux”, later presented in Lisbon and São Paulo, Brazil; the “Collector’s house” exhibition for the ExperimentaDesign 2001, Lisbon Design Biennale, include in Prototypo #008.
In 2002, [A] ainda arquitectura was one of 5 portuguese studios selected by Álvaro Siza, to present their work at the III Spanish and Portuguese Architecture Meeting, at Salamanca, Spain.