Alexandre Alves Costa is Professor Emeritus at the University of Porto, where he taught Project I and History of Portuguese Architecture and was director of the PhD Programme in Architecture. He is the author of a vast bibliography published mainly in specialised Portuguese and foreign magazines. In the 1970s he founded Atelier 15 with Sergio Fernandez. Alexandre Alves Costa has taken part in many courses, seminars and round tables, and has given lectures in Portugal and abroad, on topics related to teaching, criticism and the history of architecture. He is a member of the National Culture Council (Architectural Heritage Section), the Municipal Culture Council of Porto City Council (since 2021) and the General Council of the Marques da Silva Foundation. He has been honoured with multiple distinctions, including the Degree of Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant'Iago da Espada (2006), the Gold Medal of the City of Vila Nova de Gaia (2013) and the Medal of Merit (Gold Degree) of Porto City Council (2021).

Alessandra Chemollo, graduated from the IUAV University with a thesis on the relationship between architecture and photography. She has realised photographic projects to illustrate numerous volumes, deepening specific ways of reading architectural works from documentary sources. In her 30 years of professional experience, she ranges from historical to contemporary architecture and develops theoretical areas with didactic and curatorial purposes

Francesco Dal Co, is an Italian historian of architecture, architectural theorist and editor. He graduated in Architecture from the Iuav University of Venice, where he took up the chair of History of Architecture in 1981 and was director of the Department of Architecture between 1995 and 2003. He taught History of Architecture in the United States of America at Yale University, and in Switzerland at the University of Italian Switzerland. In addition to his academic activities, Dal Co also works as a critic. In 1976, he became director of the architecture section of Mondadori Electa and in 1996 he became editor of Casabella magazine. At the same time, he published numerous essays and articles on modern and contemporary architecture. From 1998 to 2001 he was director of the architecture section of the Venice Biennale and in 2018 he was curator of the Vatican pavilion. Between 1999 and 2001 he was on the board of the Society of Architectural Historians. In 1989 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He received honorary degrees from the University of Ghent and the University of Porto.

Gonçalo Byrne graduated in Architecture from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts in 1968.The author of a vast body of work, which has won several national and international awards, his work has been particularly important in terms of heritage and culture. His vast CV includes dozens of works in Portugal and abroad, including housing, urban renewal, urban facilities, laboratories and universities.A full professor, invited in Portugal and abroad, in 2005 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon.From 2020 to 2023, he was President of the National Board of the Order of Architects.

Roberto Collová, is an architect based in Palermo whose work draws on other creative fields such as the visual arts and photography. His experimentation in the area of public architecture projects has always been accompanied by his photography and notes illustrated by drawings. In his work, however, photography and drawing are not mere tools of observation and analysis, but full-fledged means for the development of a personal form of expression and narration. Collová has also worked in the field of landscape and garden architecture, installations for open spaces, furniture, lamps, objects of various kinds and ceramic works.

Paulo Catrica Lives and works in Lisbon. He studied photography at Ar.Co. in Lisbon (1985) and History at the Univ. Lusíada in Lisbon (1992 degree), holds an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmith's College in London (1997) and a PhD in Photography Studies from the Univ. of Westminster in London (2011). He has taught at Universidade Lusófona (2010-2014), ESMAE, Politécnico do Porto (2010-2014), ESAD, Caldas da Rainha (2010-2011), Atelier de Lisboa (2010-2016), FBAUL, Universidade de Lisboa (2016-2020) and Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica, Porto (since 2011). He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the New University of Lisbon (since 2014). He has exhibited regularly in public and private institutions since 1997. Recent exhibitions (selection): PPP, porositá, poética & politica, Escola das Artes, Univ. Católica, (Porto, 2024); No Tempo dos Dias Lentos, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida (Évora, 2023); La ricerca di un titolo (1983-2013), Câmera Escura, (Torres Vedras, 2022); Fussball ißt unser Leben, Kunsthaus Interlaken (Switzerland, 2022); Madonie Paesaggi 1973-2021 (Petralia Sottana, Sicily, 2022); O sítio em Vista, CEFT (Tomar, 2021); Almada, Um Território em Seis Ecologias, Museu da Cidade, (Almada, 2020); Prospectus, Carpintarias de São Lázaro, (Lisbon,2020); O desvio que fez a curva do rio, Galeria do Parque (V. N. Barquinha,2019); Grübler, Casa das Artes (Tavira, 2017); El Solitario Jorge, seiscientos veinte y dos días antes de su muerte, Galeria Presença, (Porto, 2016). Monographs : The diversions that made the river bend (2019), Memorator (2015), Mode d'emploi (2014), TNSC (2011), Liceus (2005). His work is represented in various private and institutional art collections (selection): State Collection of Contemporary Art, Portugal, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, EDP Foundation, PLMJ, Novo Banco, Museum of London, Lisbon Photographic Archive and Portuguese Photography Centre.

Graça Correia graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in 1989. From that date until 1995, she collaborated with the architect Eduardo Souto Moura, with whom she is currently co-authoring some works. She is defending her doctoral thesis at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She is the director of the PhD programme in the Architecture department at ULP, where she teaches, and is a visiting assistant professor at FAUP, having lectured and carried out critical reviews at various universities. In 2005 she founded CORREIA/RAGAZZI Arquitectos with Roberto Ragazzi. Their work has been published, exhibited and awarded national and international prizes. In 2008 he took part in the celebrations for Casabella's 80th anniversary, through the initiative Viaggio in Portogallo. 3 lessons in architecture. The aim of these classes was to give students from the Faculty of Civil Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and the Università IUAV di Venezia the opportunity to get to know ‘the most promising exponents of Portoghese architectural culture, which has secured a place of excellence on the international scene.’