Pedro Rogado - Biography
Pedro Rogado studied at the Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Saint-Luc (Brussels), the E.T.S.A.B. He graduated in Architecture in 1997 with a master’s thesis from I.S.A.C.F. La Cambre (Brussels), officially recognised by the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon. In 1994, he completed an academic internship with Eduardo Souto de Moura. Between 1997 and 1998, he collaborated with Álvaro Siza and Marco de Campo in Amsterdam and Oporto, on the renovation and extension project of the Stedelijk Museum. Upon returning to Lisbon in 1998, he worked with Pedro Pacheco and Marie Clément on the museum, church, and cemetery of Nova Aldeia da Luz, and with Eugénio Castro Caldas on the European Program for the Revitalisation of Historic Villages in the Alentejo. In 2000, he established himself as an independent architect within the collective Ateliers de Santa Catarina, where he developed architectural and experimental interdisciplinary projects, both individually and collaboratively, with architects, designers, and artists including Rita and Catarina Almada Negreiros, Pedro Mariguesa, Sancho Silva, Pedro Portugal, Alexandre Estrela, Rui Toscano, and Barbara Says. In 2010, he founded Atelier Pedro Rogado, continuing to develop projects individually and in co-authorship, primarily with architect Sofia Saraiva, and also with Francisco Guedes de Carvalho, Leonor Venâncio, and designer Marco Balesteros. Between 2013 and 2016, he lived in Montemor-o-Novo, as part of the community Lavre 28, maintaining his partnership with Sofia Saraiva in Lisbon. During this period, he researched sustainability, ecology, participatory practices, and DIY culture within the disciplines of architecture, agriculture, and art, collaborating with Centro de Investigação Cultura e Sustentabilidade / CICS (now Cooperativa Integral Minga), Oficinas do Convento, Telheiro da Encosta, and local architects Nuno Grenha and Tânia Teixeira. Since 2016, based between Tavira and Lisbon, he has co-directed Cine Clube Tavira with Candela Varas, developing cultural, regenerative agriculture, and eco-architecture projects with Escola Provisória para Nada, Boia.AC – Festival Paragem, Tavira em Transição, Cidadãos pelo CEAT – Hortas Urbanas de Tavira, Associação In Loco, Terra Sintrópica, Catavento Associação Cultural e Recreativa – Quinta da Fornalha, and Cooperativa Integral Sulitania. Returning to Lisbon in 2023, he undertook artistic residencies at Hangar – Artistic Research Center, where, with the support of the centre and Ana de Almeida, he developed the project “On Materialism and Landscape”, together with Pedro Nogueira, Sancho Silva, and Vera Mantero - a concept originally conceived within the Escola Provisória para Nada. The project was awarded a DGArtes (Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts) grant in 2024 under the Cross-Disciplinary Creation and Publishing Programme.
