Pedro Bandeira

Pedro Bandeira (1970) is an architect (FAUP 1996) and is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho.
At the invitation of the Institute of the Arts and the Ministry of Culture, he participated in the Metaflux exhibition representing Portugal at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2004) and represented Portugal at the São Paulo Biennale of Architecture (2005). He also participated in the exhibition Portugal Now: Country Positions in Architecture and Urbanism (2007) organized by the School of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University (USA).
He is the author of the book Specific Projects for a Generic Client – an anthology of works developed between 1996 and 2006 (Porto: Dafne Editora). In 2007, he completed his doctoral thesis entitled Architecture as Image, Work as Representation: Subjectivity of Architectural Images.
He was the commissioner for the northern region of the 2006-2008 edition of Portugal Habitar, co-commissioner of the international seminar Architecture Images and Public Space in Debate (FAUP, 2010) and the international seminar Megastructures: Architecture and Game, integrated in the ICSA International Congress (UM, 2010).
In December 2011, he was awarded the SIM Prize (promoted by Samsung) for the Casa Girassol project, developed in co-authorship with Architect Dulcineia Santos and Engineer Filipe Bandeira. More recently, he conceived the performance The Future is the Beginning for the Lisbon Architecture Triennial, the installation Weisses Rauschen at the Sitterwerk Art Library in St. Gallen, and the Proposal for the Relocation of the D. Maria Pia Bridge in co-authorship with Pedro Nuno Ramalho.