Interview with Nuno Montenegro
Nuno Montenegro's office boast a team that is able to cater for the full range of technical project planning specialties, from urban planning to design of public and private developments.
Designer Interview
14 April 2014
My background is relatively diversified. Apart from architecture, I also made inroads in Film, Urban Planning, and Computer Science.
My work reflects this mix of art and techniques, in a sort of internal debate, with its origin in the very remote past of my life.
My work reflects this mix of art and techniques, in a sort of internal debate, with its origin in the very remote past of my life.
My team that is able to cater for the full range of technical project planning specialties, from urban planning to design of public and private developments. The set of partnerships and its drive to foster experimental research are the two cornerstones behind our concept.
We provide a design-oriented development concept, hands-on benefit of a small dynamic company, with a well-built network of knowledge connectors, and a technological lead and design expertise of a larger one.
In its more than 10 years of design practice my company has earned a reputation for excellence in the master planning and the design of distinctive residential, educational, laboratory facilities, recreational, retail and mixed-use projects.
The approach to projects is collaborative both within the practice itself and in relation with our clients, consultants among others. These lines of collaboration are established and maintained right through to completion of a project, allowing projects, from inception, to be considered holistically - from the aesthetic dimensions through to questions regarding environment, structural integrity and issues related to cost, program and value.
We provide a design-oriented development concept, hands-on benefit of a small dynamic company, with a well-built network of knowledge connectors, and a technological lead and design expertise of a larger one.
In its more than 10 years of design practice my company has earned a reputation for excellence in the master planning and the design of distinctive residential, educational, laboratory facilities, recreational, retail and mixed-use projects.
The approach to projects is collaborative both within the practice itself and in relation with our clients, consultants among others. These lines of collaboration are established and maintained right through to completion of a project, allowing projects, from inception, to be considered holistically - from the aesthetic dimensions through to questions regarding environment, structural integrity and issues related to cost, program and value.
The design is kind of mindset. It is the object of man's culture, which is intended to serve him as best as possible. It's the primordium of inspiration and beauty that protrudes into materiality.
I have no limits to this vocation, for that will.
Too many to define the most favourite. We can find perfection in every corner of our space.
An industrial complex.
Everything made by hand with care.
When I am more depressed or unhappy.
Performance and the feeling of surprise and beauty at the same time.
Anxiety and desire.
Just did my job.
If it causes strong emotions in people.
The same.
A designer should work for the society and not for himself. His work should be dedicated to improving the quality of life of human beings, with the use of the less resources he can.
Performance.