Pedro de Azambuja Varela graduates in Architecture at FAUP in 2006 with the thesis "Elliptical spaces in religious architecture: the case of Igreja dos Clérigos in Porto". In 2013 finishes the Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture organized by ISCTE/FAUP, having won a grant by Amorim Isolamentos S.A. He is invited et al. to design and build a cork pavilion, becoming the first vault made purely of this material, with no extra reinforcement. In 2014 he teaches in Arkitektskolen Aarhus the summer course HARD CO(u)R(s)E DIGITAL Corkvault, building another full-size cork vault with waterjet cut conoid voussoirs. In the same year, Pedro wins a Research Scholarship to work in the DFL (Digital Fabrication Laboratory at FAUP), developing models and approaches for the FCT funded project Robotic Technologies for a Non-Standard Architecture. Following, he is awarded a PhD Research Scholarship from FCT, initiating his studies in the PDA in FAUP. During this time, his personal research on stereotomy is accompanied by activity in the DFL, developing algorithms and programming an industrial robot for digital fabrication, resulting in various constructions such as the GFRC Corkcrete Arch. In 2015 he teaches CAD in FAUP (filling a sabbatical), and in 2016 he starts teaching ArchiCAD in the newly created Continuing Training Course. While developing a system of reconfigurable moulds for bespoke vault building, he is invited to develop the same fabrication system for a vault in Italy, where is also an invited speaker in Politecnico di Bari and Ordine Architetti BAT. In 2020 Pedro presents and defends his PhD entitled "Reconstruction of a Stereotomy - for a multi-semantic stereotomic approach", approved with distinction. This thesis explores an updated contemporary augmentation of stereotomy, creating a detailed taxonomy of current possibilities, and developing a system of reconfigurable moulds which allows for the fabrication of custom geometries in blocks for the successful building of three experimental vaults. During this time, Pedro tutored several workshops, published several papers in international conferences, international journals and  is a prolific reviewer of papers for international conferences and journals. In 2023 Pedro was teaching in the Constructive Geometry course, and in 2024 teaches in the CAAD course. Currently, he is developing his research project on Constructive Stereotomy, which already allowed for a rammed earth stereotomic vault built in Istambul.