Professional summary
João Bravo da Costa is an architect with comprehensive experience in designing and delivering architectural projects, urban plans, exhibition designs, and competition projects for locations in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has participated in a diverse array of projects, from the acclaimed headquarters and cultural center for the Chinese Television corporation (CCTV / TVCC) to various assignments for housing developers, corporations, private clients, and cultural institutions.
His practical work and research cover such themes of contemporary architecture and urbanism as computational design (parametric modeling and algorithmic techniques), and urbanism in rapidly changing cities.
Bio
João Bravo da Costa was born in Lisbon in 1975. He obtained a degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the UTL (Lisbon), and a master’s degree in architecture and urbanism from the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory (London). He has worked at OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture and at de Architecten Cie. Currently, he practices autonomously and teaches at the Architectural Association.
Specialties
João Bravo da Costa has developed research and feasibility studies, architectural and urban program studies, concept designs, preliminary designs, design development packages, and construction documents; he has also managed projects for private and institutional clients.
Since 2008, he has taught architectural design and lectured on topics at the forefront of contemporary architectural knowledge and debate, including evolutionary design.
Technical expertise: parametric modeling; digital drafting and NURBS modeling; design algorithms; digital fabrication; graphic design, layout, and publishing of printed documents and screen presentations.
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