Ricardo Bak Gordon was born in Lisbon in 1967, and received his Licenciate degree in 1990 in the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon. During his studies he also visited the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, and the Milano Polithecnic Institute.
He is currently an invited professor in the Integrated Master of Architecture in the Technical Superior Institute (IST) of Lisbon. Has been a speaker and/or invited professor in several universities and institutions such as the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, the Fine Arts Superior School of Oporto, the University Lusíada, the Autonomous Lisbon University, the University of Madrid Camilo José Cela, the University of Salamanca, the University of Navarra, the Catalan college of Arcitects, the Milano Polithecnic Institute, the University Cá Foscari of Venice, the University de Sassari in Sardenha, the Architecture Academy of Mendrisio, the Hochschule Luzern in Switzerland, the University of Liechtenstein, theTrinity College of Dublin, the University of Brasília, the University of San Francisco de Quito, the Foundation Ozone in Tokyo, and the University IUAV from Venice.
He works as an architect since 1990, and creates in the year 2002 the Bak Gordon Architects workshop, which he coordinates and where he works.
He was the author of the Portuguese Pavillion in ExpoZaragoza 2008, of the Portuguese Pavillion in the São Paulo Bienal 2007, and of the exhibition project of the 1st edition of the Architecture Trienal of Lisbon 2007.
His work as an architect has been presented in several exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, germany, Chec Republic, Mexico, Equador, Brasil, Macau, South Corea and Japan; and published in renowed speciality magazines.
He has been nominated for the prize Mies van der Rohe in 2009 and 2011; he won of the prize FAD 2011 (Barcelona, Spain) and of the prize BIAU 2012 (Cádiz, Spain). He also represented Portugal in the Venice Bienal of 2010 and 2012.
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