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José Miguel Rodrigues was born in Porto on 1970. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 1994, taking his Master’s Degree in 1998, and a PhD in 2007, with a thesis entitled “O Mundo Ordenado e Acessível das Formas da Arquitectura” (“The Ordered and Accessible World of Forms in Architecture”, published by Afrontamento and Fundação Instituto Marques da Silva, in 2013). In 1995, together with Ana Luísa Rodrigues, João Figueira, Luís Miguel Fareleira and Pedro Bandeira, he won first prize in the International Public Invitation to Tender for the Project for the new Aldeia da Luz, which was built in 2000, and, in 2004, he was nominated for the Secil Arquitectura Prize. He became a project assistant at FAUP from 1998 onwards, and is currently Professor at the same faculty, where he lectures in the History of Modern Architecture and Research Methodologies in the PhD Program. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD Programme in Architecture at FAUP. Since 2011, he has been engaged in a post-doctoral research project entitled “The Relationship between Theory and Practice in Giorgio Grassi: Affinities and Oppositions”, a project whose aim is to translate the author’s written works into Portuguese.