2024-08-302024-08-30https://dspace.usj.edu.mo/handle/123456789/5744Filipe Afonso is an Oporto based architect and researcher. In 2006 he founded Arquitectos Anónimos®, an architectural studio that organizes an opened space stimulating the work as a kind of an individual supplanting, reacting in the contemporary Portuguese context of the exaggerated weight of authorship “individuality”. In this sense Filipe has been developing a methodology for his architectural practice based on advanced computation as a strategy to design possible architectures, trying to focus more on processes that in the individual genius. Filipe Afonso holds a Master of Architecture from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Barcelona-Spain) in 2009 within the theme “Programming Architecture”, a research on the articulation of emerging material systems for architecture, exploring novel design methodology and performances based on computation and bio-computation. Filipe also studied through international programs promoted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Texas at Austin. His understanding of architectural practice as a problem of engineering material organization focuses his research on the development of an integral and coherent design approach at the intersection of architecture, sustainability, engineering and computation in the endeavor to develop generative systems applied to his architectural production under Arquitectos Anónimos studio. He worked independently from 2001 to 2006 and, among other projects, he has designed and built the Cultural Centre of Ílhavo. He is an award-winning architect and educator. He has taken part to several exhibitions, lectures and workshops and has been published widely. Recently he was an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has taught design studios and master classes from 2010 to the present days at the School of Arts and Design, ESAD (Porto), Lusophone University of Humanities Technologies (Lisbon), Universidade Lusofona Porto and at University Innsbruck, Institut fur Gestaltung. He has been an invited critic, guest lecturer, and keynote speaker at various institutions in Portugal, Austria, Australia, Netherland, Bulgaria, Slovenia, United States, South Korea and China.