Biographical note
João Morgado, 34, was born in Cascais and in 2008 he completed his master's degree in architecture from the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE). In the same year he went to Maastricht (Holland) to work at the studio of the prestigious architect Wiel Arets, where he discovered his passion for architecture photography.
In 2011 he founded his company João Morgado - Architecture Photography.
He was considered, in 2015, one of the ten best photographers of architecture of the world, by the magazine Top Teny, of New York.
A year before, a photograph of his own, the Swimming Pools, in Leça da Palmeira - designed by the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira (architect with whom, he often works) - won the award of Arcaid Images Architectural Photography, in the category of "Sense of Space".
João Morgado continues to work in Portugal, but also in other countries, such as Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, United States and even in Kuwait.
Selected publications
João Morgado's work is regularly published in several national and international publications.
Architectural Digest (Spain, Germany, Russia, France), AIT (Germany), Azure (Canada), Betonart (Turkey), Bob Magazine (South Korea), Design Magazine (Portugal), Domus (Italy), Frame (Netherlands), Id+C (China), Modern Decoration (China), Monocle (USA), mur+betong (Norway), On Diseño (Spain), Taschen (USA), Wallpaper (United Kindgom).
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