João Luís Carrilho da Graça is an architect, graduated from ESBAL (Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa) in 1977, the year he initiated his professional activity. He has lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon between 1977 and 1992, and he has been professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon from 2001 to 2010, and at the University of Évora since 2005. Among the many awards he has received are the ‘Piranesi Prix de Rome’ in 2010 for the Archaeological Museum of Castelo de São Jorge, the FAD prize in 1999 and the VALMOR prize in 1998 for the Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion at Lisbon exhibition 1998, the SECIL prize in 1994 for the School of Media of the IPL (Lisbon Polytechnic Institute), and the nomination for the EU Mies Award in 1990, 1992, 1994, 2009, 2010 and 2011.