Paula André holds a PhD in Architecture from Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a Master's in Art History from FCSH-UNL. Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte -Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; director of Doctoral Program in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories; director of the Master in Architecture and Visual Culture in Lisbon; profesor in the Integrated Master in Architecture, in the PhD in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, and in the Master in Cultural Studies and Management. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Studies on Socio-Economic Change and Territory - DINÂMIA'CET-IUL, and integrated researcher having coordinated the Thematic Line “Images of Material Achievements” of the FCT Project “Print Photography. Image and Advertising in Portugal (1934-1974)”-PTDC/CPC-HAT/4533/2014. Member of the research team of the FCT Project “Export Portugal. Cultural diplomacy and the rebranding strategies of the Estado Novo in the United States (1933-1974)”, IR Anna Rita Gori (2022.08653.PTDC, March 2023-March 2026). She coordinates the “Collaborative Laboratory on Urban Dynamics, Heritage, Arts. Research, Teaching and Dissemination Seminar” in partnership with Paulo Simões Rodrigues and Sofia Aleixo (University of Évora), Paula Ribeiro Lobo (New University of Lisbon), Miguel Reimão Costa (University of the Algarve), Lúcia Rosas and Maria Leonor Botelho (University of do Porto), María Teresa Perez Cano (Universidad de Sevilla), Rodrigo de Faria (University of Brasília), Sérgio Proença (University of Lisbon), Raimundo Bambó (Universidad de Zaragoza), Ana Esteban Maluenda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Alexandre Nobre Pais (National Tile Museum), João Branco Pedro (National Civil Engineering Laboratory), Adriano Tomitão Canas (Federal University of Uberlândia), Mário Caeiro (Polytechnic of Leiria) and e Ana Amora and Helio Herbst (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Daniela Marzola (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (GEDURB), Ruth Verde Zein (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (FAU-Mackenzie), Ana Tostões e Bárbara Coutinho (Instituto Superior Técnico/CiTUA), Carolina B. García-Estévez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSAB) and Maria Lúcia Bressan Pinheiro (Universidade de São Paulo, FAUSP). Member of the Editorial Committee of the Magazine “ARA”, edited by the Museum/Heritage Group of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo and of the Magazine "Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios" edited by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL. Member of the Asociación de Historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo (AhAU). Collaborating researcher at the Center for the History of Art and Artistic Research at the University of Évora - CHAIA-EU. Develops research in the group "Cities and Territories" of DINÂMIA'CET-IUL focused on the areas: Theory and History of Architecture and Urbanism; Urban Dynamics and City Politics (Lisbon); History of Art and Visual Culture; Public Works and Popular Culture; Photography and Heritage.

Paulo Tormenta Pinto (Lisbon, 1970), began his teaching activity in 1997, and is currently a Full Professor at Iscte, in the area of Architecture. His doctoral thesis “Arquitetura e Artifício – Cassiano Branco 1897-1970” was published in 3 editions (Caleidoscópio ed. 2007, 2015 e 2020). As a researcher, he has participated in and coordinated several projects related to architectural culture, highlighting, as responsible researcher, the projects “The Critical Monumentality of Álvaro Siza” and “Grand Projects - Architectural and urbanistic operations after the Lisbon World Exhibition of 1998”, both financed by FCT. He held several positions in the academic structure of Iscte, namely as director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism and as director of the Research Center for Socioeconomic and Territorial Change – (Dinamia’CET-Iscte). He was the godfather of the title of Doctor Honoris causa awarded to Nuno Portas, by Iscte, in 2020. His work as an architect has been published and awarded several times, most recently, the FORMA Prize 2022 and the Teotónio Pereira Prize 2022. In 2022 he was a finalist of the FAD Award. His work was nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award in the 2022 and 2024 editions. In 2023 he was distinguished with the 2023 Research and Sustainability Award (ex aequo), awarded by the Order of Architects.

Architect (1995, FAUL). Master in Urban Design (Building Space Regulations, 2002, ISCTE-IUL). PhD in Architecture (The Teaching of the Architecture Design in Portugal in the Post-Bologna, 2016, ISCTE-IUL). Teacher of Architectural Design and Drawing at ISCTE-IUL since 2004. Director of the Integrated Master in Architecture (2019-2021). Researcher in themes such as: the teaching and production of architecture; the normative, infrastructure and the morphology of public space. Designer since 1995 (Utopos, Risco, Bernardo Miranda), coordinator and/or co-author of awarded works such as Vila Expo'98 (Lisbon); Estádio do Dragão (Oporto); Public Space in Central Cacém (Sintra); Portas do Mar (Ponta Delgada); Hospital da Luz (Lisbon); Porto do Funchal, and the Horta Maritime Terminal (Faial). Co-author of the new ISCTE-IUL Technology Transfer and Enhancement Centre building (with Bernardo Miranda and Susana Rego, 2019) and member of the ISCTE-IUL University Residences Mission Team (2020).

Soraya Monteiro Genin is graduated in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon (1990), has a Master degree in Science in Architecture, Specialization Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings (1995) and a Ph.D. in Engineering (2014) by the Faculty of Engineering at the KU Leuven. Assistant Professor, she was Vice-Director of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, where she has been teaching Architecture Technologies and Architectural Conservation since 2002. President of the Portuguese National Commission of ICOMOS since 2018. Expert member of the Sustainable Development Goals Working Group (SDGWG) and of the following ICOMOS Scientific Committees: Training, Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration, Places of Religion and Ritual, Stone. Author of several publications and communications on Conservation of Cultural Heritage and History of Construction, her main areas of research. Coordinator of the research projects “SizaATLAS. Filling the gaps for World Heritage” (general coordination) and “F-ATLAS. Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal and Spain” (principal researcher), at ISTAR-IUL and DINÂMIA'CET-IUL. She was ranked 1st in limited competitions on Architectural Projects she coordinated in her office (1999-2014), for the Belém Tower walkway I 2002, the cafetaria of the National Palace of Queluz in 2002, the Livramento Chapel in Estoril in 2003, the Hospedaria cloister of the Convent of Christ in Tomar in 2004, the French Embassy in 2006 and the Parliament, in Lisbon in 2013. Winner of the "TEKTÓNICA Promoter Academy" award for the course "Architectural Practices", which she organises since 2012, at the International Construction Fair, in Lisbon