Adelino Magalhães

Architect, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP, 1997), and Professor in the Department of Architectural Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM-UPM, 2016), where he teaches in the Professional Master’s Degree in Architecture. He currently also teaches at the UNIR School of Architecture of Navarra, and previously taught at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. He has also served as an invited member of international juries at FAUP (Porto, Portugal) and at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris.

His academic training took place between FAUP and ETSAM, through Erasmus and Leonardo scholarships, which allowed him to complete his studies in Madrid. He is currently pursuing his PhD (CAPD Programme), with a dissertation titled Strategies for the Generation of Public Space in the Consolidated European City of the 21st Century.

Since 2012 he has directed the Madrid-based practice AMM Arquitecturas, through which he has won and built numerous national and international competitions. His professional career has been widely recognised, including the New European Bauhaus – CSCAE Awards (2025), the FAD Opinion Award (2025), the COAM–Luis Moreno Mansilla Award (2023), finalist status at the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, BIAU (2023), and a Special Mention in Spanish International Architecture awarded by the CSCAE (2015), among other distinctions.

His work has been published in leading specialised media such as Metalocus, Arquitectura Viva, ArchDaily and Afasia, and is currently present in Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg and Switzerland.