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L'Atalante

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L'Atalante is a cultural association coordinated by Pedro Machado Costa and Carlos Pedro Sant'Ana, with the goal of disseminating and encouraging contemporary Portuguese architecture.

Our purpose is to extend the scope of architectural intervention, seeking to build a multi-disciplinary approach to concrete problems, directly conected constructing and consolidating the urban environment.

Pedro Machado Costa graduated from the Faculty of Oporto, and defended his Master's thesis at the Faculty of Architecture, Lisbon Technical University, on the subject of Landscape and Modernity. He has studied at Bouwkunde Technische Universiteit in Delft, and worked in architectural practices in Macao and Lisbon. He has led the a.s* collective since 1998, and his work has been included in exhibitions, publications and conferences.

He represented Portugal at the 4th Iberian-American Architecture Biennale and at the 9th Architecture Biennale in Venice. He was nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Prize in 2004, and selected for the FAD Architecture Prizes. He curated the exhibition entitled Em Busca de Ideia Arquitectó´níca in the Azores, in July 2005.

Carlos Pedro Sant'Ana graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Lisbon Technical University and took his Master's Degree at the University Politecnica de Catalunya. He currently divides his time between Lisbon and Barcelona, where he works on large scale strategies and sustainabilty, exploring new design tools annd methodologies applied to architecture. At his S'A Arquitectos pratice he researches subjects as flexibility, mobility, energy and ecology. His work has been represented at Archilab, Hiper-Catalunya, and Venice Architecture Biennale.

He regularly publishes articles on contemporary architectural work, and his the architecture editor for N_Númeromagazine_Portugal.