Azores Traditional Architecture
Summer School 2020

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the School of Fine Arts in Porto and at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and is a Doctor in the Universidad del País Vasco.

In 1991 he founded his own studio, working since then on residential, hotels, and commercial projects of facilities and urban. It is, in any case, in the continuation of the vernacular traditions of the Alentejo region in which the mastery of José Baganha has been deployed in the most prominent way. This is seen in the series of “Montes”. He has been a professor in the Faculty of Architecture of Viseu and Sintra in the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and guest lecturer at several European universities.

He founded INTBAU Portugal, co-founded the Council for European Urbanism and is a member of the board of the College of Architectural Heritage of the Ordem dos Arquitectos. The qualities of his work have earned him international awards such as the Prix Européen pour la Reconstruction de la Ville 2011, awarded by the Philippe Rotthier Foundation and the Rafael Manzano Prize in 2017.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture, he studied at the School of Architecture of Donostia-San Sebastián where he graduated with honours. He also received an MPhil on Conservation at the University of the Basque Country where he is currently developing his PhD on the contributions made by the great architects of the First Italian Renaissance to the development of bastioned fortifications. Since 2012 he is teaching assistant of the Chair of Architectural Design of the School of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country and since 2016 he is a lecturer on Urbanism in the same School. Since 2010 he has worked with the architects Manuel Iñiguez & Alberto Ustarroz, with Iñigo Peñalba between 2012 and 2016, and since 2015 he works with Imanol Iparraguirre Barbero. Among his most notorious projects are the collaboration on the Restoration of the City Walls of Hondarribia, the project for the Imperial Fora of Rome, and the competition for the Restoration of the Palace of the Earls of Grajal de Campos which was awarded the first prize at the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition in 2017 and their proposal for the surroundings of La Coria, Trujillo, first prize at the same competition in 2018.

Graduated in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and holds a Master in Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Heritage and a PhD from the same university, where he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Composition since 2019. He has been an Associate Professor at the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio School of Architecture (Spain, from 2009 to 2019), a Visiting Scholar at the School of Architecture of the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA, 2016) and invited lecturer at many national and international universities, workshops and conferences.

His professional practice has been focused on traditional architecture and building techniques and the restoration and study of diverse historic buildings and archaeological sites of multiple types and chronologies, mainly in Spain and Morocco. He is the Executive Director of the Richard H. Driehaus Initiatives in Spain and Portugal, including the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture, the Richard H, Driehaus Architecture Competition, the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards, the Donald Gray Building Arts Grants and the National Directory of Traditional Building Masters (Hispania Nostra Award 2018, Europa Nostra Special Mention 2018), Member of the Board of Terrachidia NGO (INTBAU Excellence Award 2015), Vice Chair of INTBAU Spain and professor at the Centro de Investigación de Arquitectura Tradicional.

Graduated in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, he is currently completing his studies in Psicology (UNED).

He has worked for more than two years (2017-2020) at the French cultural institution Domaine de Boisbuchet, being directly involved in the organization of workshops, exhibitions and events related to art, design and architecture. At the same time, he has been responsible for the collection, library and archive of Alexander von Vegesack, founder of the Vitra Design Museum and reputed collector himself.

He is the Coordination Assistant of the Richard H. Driehaus Initiatives in Spain and Portugal, which includes the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition, the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards, and the National Directory of Traditional Building Masters.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Donostia-San Sebastián where he graduated with honours on his Final Project for Urbino. After completing a MPhil on Conservation at the University of the Basque Country, he is currently developing his PhD on the genesis and typological evolution of rotundas since Classical Antiquity to Renaissance. Since 2015 he is teaching assistant of the Chair of Architectural Design of the School of Architecture of the University of the Basque Country.
In 2014 he was awarded an Arquia Fellowship and collaborated with the architect Alberto Campo Baeza. Since 2014 he has worked with the architects Manuel Iñiguez & Alberto Ustarroz, with Iñigo Peñalba between 2015 and 2016, and since 2015 he works with Aritz Díez Oronoz. Among his most notorious projects are the project for the Imperial Fora of Rome – finalist of the Piranesi Prix de Rome 2016 – their proposal for the Restoration of the Palace of the Earls of Grajal de Campos, which was awarded the first prize at the Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition in 2017, and their proposal for the surroundings of La Coria, Trujillo, first prize at the same competition in 2018.

He is a partner at the firm of Martinez Alvarez Urban Design, Architecture & Interior Design. In the 20 plus years of the firm, the work has ranged in scale and complexity from small, hand crafted houses to campus design and institutional buildings. The larger body of work and on-going creative research includes residential projects in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Pinecrest, Bay Point and Palm Beach, Florida; campus buildings at the Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Coconut Grove and Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens; single and multi-family dwellings in the New Urban Towns of Windsor, Alys Beach in Florida, and Tannin in Alabama; and historic preservation projects in the City of Miami, Coral Gables, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard and Boston, Massachusetts. Through a national RFQ selection process, the firm was recently selected as one of the Preservation Consulting Architectural Firms for the City of Coral Gables and as the Consulting Architects for the Town of Medley providing services in preservation architectural design including historic preservation documentation and assessment.

Graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2005 from the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto and the Accademia di Architettura della Universitá della Svizzera Italiana. Later, in 2014, graduated with a Master Science degree in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford, with the dissertation ‘Bordering the Favela : The relationship between ‘urban form’ and the resident’s perceptions of safety’.

Founding partner of Morim’ Santos Silva, Arquitectos  in 2009, with Gisela Correia Morim, have been developing an architecture atelier mainly focused on contextual residential and touristic practices.

He is a founding member of INTBAU Portugal and, building on he’s work in the Azores Islands, is currently working on a PhD thesis from the Universidad del País Vasco, concerning Pico Island traditional architecture and its role on the island sustainability and identity.

Lucien Steil was born in Joao Monlevade (Brazil), and lived and studied in Luxembourg. He studied architecture and urbanism in Paris and Vincennes, graduated as an Architecte DPLG, collaborated at the Archives d’Architecture Moderne in Brussels with Maurice Culot and Leon Krier and later with Colum Mulhern in Luxembourg. ‘Mulhern & Steil” produced a wide range of projects in traditional urbanism and traditional architecture.

Lucien Steil has lectured and taught at the Prince of Wales’s Urban Design Task Force in Potsdam and Berlin, the Oregon School of Design, the University of Miami, the Politechnical University of Puerto Rico, the University of Notre Dame in Rome and in Indiana, the University of Bologna, the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Viseu, the Prince’s Foundation and the University of Buckingham. He has been actively involved in traditional and ecological urbanism and architecture which have become very central to his teaching and design practice. Lucien Steil is the editor of ‘Katarxis’ and principal of ‘Katarxis Urban Workshops ASBL’.

He has co-edited with Alireza Sagharchi New Palladians, Sustainability and Modernity in Architecture of the 21st Century (Artmedia, London, 2010) and Traditional Architecture, Timeless Building in the 21st Century (Rizzoli, New York 2013). He is also author of The Architectural Capriccio, Memory, Fantasy & Invention (Ashgate 2013/ Routledge 2016) and In the Mood for Architecture: Tradition, Modernism & Serendipity (Ernst Wasmuth 2018).