Manuel Graça Dias was born in Lisbon, in 1953.
He is an architect (ESBAL, 1977) and initiated the profession in Macau, as a contributor of Architect Manuel Vicente (1978/1981). He was an assistent in FA/UTL (1985/1996), and currently is Assistent Professor at FAUP (since 1997), where he concluded his Ph.D with the dissertation entitled “Depois da cidade viária” (2009); he is also an invited Professorof DA/UAL (since 1998), of which was the director between 2000 and 2004, as well as a Visiting Professor of DAP/FA of the Politecnico di Milano.
The house he recovered in 1979, in Graça, Lisbon, in assossiation with António Marques Miguel, received the Valmôr Honorable Mention (1983).
He has written several articles in critics and dissemination of architecture in the speciality journals and magazines (since 1978), he is requested for a vast array of conferences, in Portugal and abroad, and is author of several dissimination books on the topic of architecture.
Signed a fortnightly programme in TV2 (See Arts/Architecture, 1992/1996); collaborated, regularly, with the TSF radio (1995/1999) and with the Expresso newspaper (2000/2004), in the field of dissemination and critic of Architecture; he was also Director of the JA/ Journal of Architects (2000-04 and 2009-12), commissioner of the portuguese representation to the VIII Bienal of Architecture of São Paulo (2009), commissioner (with Ana Vaz Milheiro), of the exhibition South Africa/Brasil, to the Lisbon Triennial 2010, as well as President of the Portuguese Section of AICA (2008/2012).
Egas José Vieira was born in Lisbon, in 1962.
He is an architect (FA/UTL, 1985) and initiated his professional activity as a contributor to Architect Egas de Vidigal Vieira (1980/1985). He was an invited Auxiliar Professor of ESTGAD, Caldas da Rainha (1997/2001), and currently he is an Invited Assistent Professor of DA/UAL (desde 1998).
The house he projected near the Montargil dam, obteined an Honorable Mention in the Municipal prize of Architecture of Ponte de Sor (1993).
Manuel Graça Dias and Egas José Vieira live and work in Lisbon, where they created, in 1990, the workshop CONTEMPORÂNEA.
They obtained numerous first places in public Architecture contests, among which stand out, as most relevant, the contest for the Portuguese Pavillion in Expo’92, Sevilha (1989), and the contest for the construction of the new headquarters of AAP/Banhos of S. Paulo (today, the Architects Association [Order]), in Lisbon (1991).
Manuel Graça Dias and Egas José Vieira live and work in Lisbon, where they created, in 1990, the workshop CONTEMPORÂNEA.
They have obteined numerous first places in public contests of Architecture, among which stand out, since more relevant, the contest for the Portuguese Pavillion in Expo’92, Sevilha (1989), and the contest for the construction of the new headquarters of AAP/Banhos of S. Paulo (today, Architects Assossiation [Order]), in Lisbon (1991).
They have works built in Lisbon, Almada, Porto, Braga, Guimarães, Chaves, Madrid, Sevilha and Frankfurt which have been published in spelialized press, and have been presented (since 1978) in individual and colective exhibitions.
They are the authors of the polemic Study of Urban Reconvertion of the Shipyard of Lisnave, in Almada, MGD + EJV engage currently, among others, of the projects of the Museum of Aljube, Resistência e Liberdade, in Lisbon, as well as the recovery of the Theater Luis de Camões, also in Lisbon, and the conversion of the Theater-Cine of Covilhã.
The Municipal Theater Joaquim benite, in Almada (Blue Theater, 1998-2005), which they projected with Gonçalo Afonso Dias was nominated (by the respective Juries) for the Secil Prize 2007, to the Mies van der Rohe 2007 Prise, and for the Aga Khan Prize, 2008/2010.
MGD + EJV won the Prize AICA/Ministry of Culture (Architecture), in 1999, for their overall work.
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