Diogo Aguiar Studio is an architecture studio founded in Porto, Portugal, in 2016.
The studio works on the frontiers of art and architecture, developing spatial installations and small-scale buildings and interiors, oscillating between public and private contexts.
In 2017, Diogo Aguiar Studio was one of the five Porto architecture studios selected by competition to design an ephemeral pavilion for film venues in Serralves Contemporary Art Museum gardens, as part of “Incerteza Viva” - 32nd São Paulo Bienal.
In 2018, the studio was selected to integrate the official Portuguese Representation at the 16th Architecture Venice Biennale - Public Without Rethoric.
Diogo Aguiar (Porto, 1983) graduated from the University of Porto’s Faculty of Architecture in 2008.
Before founding Diogo Aguiar Studio in 2016, he collaborated with several studios, including UNStudio, in Amsterdam, and co-founded former collective LIKEarchitects, in Porto (selected for Portugal’s representation in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014). Diogo Aguiar is also co-author of the Eco-Resort, in Pedras Salgadas, built in 2012, which has won the ArchDaily Building of the Year Award.
Diogo’s work has been widely published and he has won several awards in Portugal and abroad.
Since 2017, Diogo is the commissioner of Concreta, the main Portuguese Architecture and Construction fair.
He is also co-founder of the Architecture Gallery, in Porto.
Most recently, Diogo was appointed co-curator of the Architecture Program of Bienal da Maia
Team

Diogo Aguiar, PT, Principal
diogo@diogoaguiarstudio.com

Daniel Mudrák, SK, Senior Architect.
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

Alicia Cano, ES, Architect
Alicia holds a Master in Architecture from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura y Edificación de Cartagena (2019).
She joined DAStudio in 2017.
alicia@diogoaguiarstudio.com

Carolina Fiuza, PT, Architect
Carolina holds a Master in Architecture from Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa (2014) and worked as an Architect in Gonzalez Haase / AAS (2016). She joined DAStudio in 2019.
carolina@diogoaguiarstudio.com

Irati Quintano, ES, Intern Architect
Irati holds a Master in Architecture from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura - UPV/EHU (2016) and worked as an Architect in Goicoechea Sanz (2018). She joined DAStudio in 2019.

Yaiza Cristóbal, ES, Intern Architect
Yaiza holds a Master in Architecture from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura - UPV/EHU (2016) and worked as an Architect for AGPI Studio (2016). She joined DAStudio in 2019.
Former Collaborators
Nikolay Boboshevski, BG (2018-2019)
João Oliveira Brito, PT (2017-2018)
Adrian López, ES (2018)
Lúcia Torre, ES (2018)
Sérgio Gonzalez, ES (2016) / (2018)
Rafael Morais, PT (2016)
Awards
2018
Premis FAD | Finalist, Intervenciones Efímeras
Serralves Garden PavilionPremis FAD | Selected, Ciudad y Paisage
Aurantes/AbrantesPremis FAD | Selected, Interiorismo
Prudêncio StudioBID 18 - Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño | Mención, Diseño de espacios e interiorismo
Serralves Garden PavilionBID 18 - Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño | Finalista, Diseño de espacios e interiorismo
Paula Rego Temporary MuseumPrémios Construir | Finalist, Best Private Project
Serralves Garden Pavilion
2017
Premis FAD | Selected, Intervenciones Efímeras
Start
Exhibitions
2018 /07 16th Venice Architecture Biennale: Official Portuguese Representation - Public Without Rethoric, Venice, Italy
2018 /07 Prémis FAD 2018, Barcelona, Spain
2017 /07 Prémis FAD 2017, Barcelona, Spain
2016 /11 Time Machine – Show Me – Design and Art Gallery, Encourados, Portugal. Individual Art Exhibition
Conferences
2018 /11 FACtual: Registro Ibérico Activo de Jóvenes Arquitectos, Roca Madrid Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018 /10 5x5: Carrilho da Graça, Manuel Aires Mateus, Promontório, Pedro Domingos, Diogo Aguiar, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa, Portugal
2018 /09 4 Espaços 4 Conversas, Casa de Branca de Gramido, Gondomar, Portugal
2017 /07 Novas Perspectivas, Conversas entre arte e arquitectura, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2017 /06 Arquitectura de Outro Tempo, Garagem Sul, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa, Portugal
2017 /01 Arquitectura em espaço público, Mestrado em Design e Desenvolvimento de Produto, Escola Superior de Design de Barcelos (IPCA), Barcelos, Portugal
2016 /12 Habitar Portugal: Visibilidade e delito, arquitecturas efémeras, eventos e mediatização, Palácio Marquês de Pombal, Lisboa, Portugal
2016 /11 Movimentos de Arte e Arquitectura Contemporânea, Mestrado em Arquitectura, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
2016 /11 EAST COAST, WEST COAST (MAIO, Fala, Diogo Aguiar Studio), Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
2016 /06 Lisbon Street Art & Urban Creativity International Conference, ISCTE-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal