Apresentação Pessoal

Cristina Guedes (CG) was born in Macau (China), and graduated Architecture in 1992 at FAUP - Faculty of Architecture of University of Porto. CG currently teaches as Guest Professor in USI, Mendrisio, Switzerland. CG has been invited to national and international conferences, juries, exhibitions and critics in various faculties such as ETH Zurich, TU Wien, Polytechnic of Lausanne, Trinity College Dublin, Mackintosh School, Glasgow, UK, among others, and was commissary of Portugal at the IX BIAU New Geographies, at Rosario, Argentina 2014. CG was honoured by the Royal Institute of British Architects by becoming International RIBA Fellows.

Cristina Guedes founded the studio Menos é Mais with Francisco Vieira de Campos in 1994 (Oporto). The ability to do more with less is their greatest asset, seeking to balance the "economy" of means with the "richness” of the materiality and emotional involvement of the users. Their works are pragmatic responses to specific contexts. This is best typified in the Cable Car complex in the Historic Site of Gaia (shown in the 2016 Venice Biennale underlining the question “is it possible to create public space within a private commission?”), and in the Archipelago Contemporary Arts Centre in the Azores island of S. Miguel (shown in the 2018 Venice Biennale" Public Without Rhetoric").

Recently won the AICA 2023 Award (International Association of Art Critics), she was distinguished with the 'Women in Architecture' award at the 2023 National Architecture Awards 'espaço' (Casa da Arquitectura, Porto), the Secil Architecture Award in 2020 (Lisbon), the AIT Award in 2020 (Frankfurt), the BIGMAT International Award 2017 (Luxembourg), the FAD Award in 2016 (Barcelona), and the BIAU Architecture Award in 2016 (São Paulo), 2012 (Cádiz), and 2006 (Montevideo).