Joao Morgado
Architectural Photography

When asked at school “what daddy does”, she had no doubts and answered accurately: “He takes pictures of beautiful houses”. And that says it all! Since he began his career as an architectural photographer (in 2012), João Morgado’s lens has produced over a thousand reports, covering the entire country, including islands, but also countries such as Brazil, the USA, Mexico, Italy, France, Kuwait, among others.

In 2020, the Muse Design Awards awarded him the best architectural photographer. This award was already recognized in 2014, when he won the ARCAID Awards in the United Kingdom in the “Sense of Place” category, with his photograph of the Piscina das Marés in Leça da Palmeira (Matosinhos), a work by architect Siza Vieira. The following year, in New York, he was classified as one of the ten best architectural photographers in the world.

His work is regularly published in several specialist publications, such as Architectural Digest, Casa Bella, Wallpaper, Azure and id+C.

He is the co-founder of the Loop Design Awards, an award created in 2020 that has already become an international reference in Architecture and Design.

He often says that “for as long as he can remember” he wanted to be an architect. And a score of 19,9 in the national exam in Descriptive Geometry earned him admission to the Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) in Lisbon, where he obtained a master’s degree in Architecture.

But it was during his professional internship in Maastricht, Holland, in 2009, that the architect Wiel Arets involuntarily discovered a talent that he never abandoned…