Studio
Diogo Aguiar Studio (DAS) is a Portuguese architecture studio that was established in Porto, in 2016.
The studio operates across the fields of Art and Architecture, designing small buildings and interiors, as well as temporary or fixed spatial installations destined for the public space, with the belief that a dual practice informs and boosts the work undertaken, as a speculative and spatial investigation. Its interests lie in the material and sensorial exploration of immersive architectural or artistic spaces, whether archetypal or ready-made, through geometric, abstract and elementary compositions, which present themselves as formal systems aware of the simultaneous experience of (a space´s) emptiness, seeking to reclaim the relevance of the shaping of space in Architecture.
With a strong geometric, volumetric and material identity, the collection of projects built by the studio is thus a synthesis of dichotomous relationships that balance the conceptual development of the projects namely: between the new and the existing; between interior and exterior; between light and shadow; between rationality and emotion; between ethereal and material; between repetition and innovation; between unified and the whole.
In recent years, the practice has been awarded several nominations for international prizes, namely: Prémis FAD 2018, BigMat Prize 2019, Europe 40 under 40 Prize, Mies van der Rohe Prize 2022, among others. Recently, Diogo Aguiar Studio was selected as one of the 25 global practices in ArchDaily´s New Practices of 2023.
Diogo Aguiar (Porto, 1983) has been an architect since graduating from the Faculty of Architecture of Porto (FAUP) in 2008.
At the beginning of his professional career, he became two-time winner of the ArchDaily Building of The Year award, in the 2010 and 2012 editions, and was considered by the same website to be one of the Young Talents of Portuguese Architecture.
Diogo Aguiar was co-founder of LIKEarchitects from 2010 to 2015, and founded Diogo Aguiar Studio in 2016. As of 2016, he is the commissioner of Concreta, the country’s main construction fair - where he seeks to build bridges between Architecture and Manufacturing -, as well as co-founder, alongside Andreia Garcia, of Galeria de Arquitectura, in Porto, an independent space in which to think Architecture.
In 2020, he was a visiting professor at ISCTE-IUL and, since 2021, he has been a visiting professor at FAUP, where he teaches Project I.
In 2023, Diogo Aguiar is assistant curator of Fertile Futures, the 18th Portuguese Representation at the International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Andreia Garcia.
Team
Diogo Aguiar, PT, Principal
diogo@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Daniel Mudrák, SK, Senior Architect, Project Leader
Daniel holds a Master in Architecture from Slovak University of Technology (2014) and worked as an Architect in LIKEarchitects (2014/2015).
He joined DAStudio in 2016.
daniel@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Adalgisa de Castro Lopes, PT, Senior Architect, Project Leader
Adalgisa holds a Master in Architecture from ULP (2006). She worked as a project manager in Menos é Mais Arquitectos and And-Ré. She is a founder and partner of ANEXO since 2011. She joined DAStudio in 2020.
adalgisa@diogoaguiarstudio.com
João Teixeira, PT, Architect, Project Leader
João holds a Master in Architecture (2016) from ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon. He worked in Manuel Gaspar - Maquetes studio in Porto (2017), and as an architect in André Campos Joana Mendes - Arquitectos studio in Porto (2017-2022). He joined DAStudio in 2022.
joao@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Claudia Ricciuti, IT, Architect
Claudia holds a Master in Architecture from Università degli Studi di Firenze (2021). She worked as an intern architect for Atelier RUA in Lisbon, PT (2019) and as an intern architect in DAStudio in 2021. She joined DAStudio in 2022.
claudia@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Marta Bednarczyk, PL, Architect
Marta holds a Master in Interior Design (2022) from Fine Arts Academy in Cracow. She also graduated in Architecture Engineering (2020) from Politechnika Lodzka. She worked in ARTmoko studio, PL (2021/2022), as an intern in MASS LAB, PT (2021) and as an intern architect in DAStudio (2022). She joined DAStudio in 2023.
marta@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Helena Krasnopiórko, ES, Intern Architect
Helena holds a Master in Architecture from the University of the Basque Country (2024). She worked as an intern architect in Estudio Beldarrain, ES (2023).
helena@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Lenos Karaspyros, CY, Intern Architect
Lenos is architecture graduate student at the Faculty of Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He worked as an intern architect for P-SO studio, GR (2023).
lenos@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Linda Li Arro, EE, Intern Architect
Linda holds a Master in Architecture and Urban Design from Estonian Academy of Arts (2023). She worked as an architect in Kadarik Tüür Architects, EE (2022/2024) and since 2021 she is a member of a design group LARStuudio, EE.
linda@diogoaguiarstudio.com
Former Collaborators
Yasmine Nouira, IT (2023)
Carlo Mariani, IT (2023)
Mia Martina Pei, EE (2023)
Aiala Bastero Acha, ES (2023)
Mario Basurko Rico, ES (2023)
Liam Romo, ES, (2021-2023)
Matyáš Řehák, CZ (2022-2023)
Jorge Otaegi, ES (2021-2022)
Ana Sánchez Pérez, ES (2021-2022)
Laura Teso, ES (2021)
Silvestru Cania, IT (2021-2022)
Adam Bieniek, PL (2021)
Karina Dikova, BG (2021)
Tomáš Pevný, CZ (2021)
Dominika Widlarz, PL (2021)
Sergio Navarro, ES (2021)
Andrea Molinari, IT (2021)
Alicia Cano, ES (2017-2021)
Sergio González, ES (2016-2018), (2019-2021)
Elena Bredariol, IT (2020)
Vassil Vandov, BG (2020)
Christos Gyftopoulos, EL (2020)
Adamantia Nika, EL (2020)
Carolina Fiuza, PT (2019-2020)
Irati Quintano, ES (2019)
Yaiza Cristóbal, ES (2019)
Jan Lebl, CZ (2019)
Nikolay Boboshevski, BG (2018-2019)
João Pedro de Brito Oliveira, PT (2017-2018)
Adrian López, ES (2018)
Lúcia Torre, ES (2018)
Rafael Morais, PT (2016)