João Nunes

Jury 2022 /
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The general coordinator of PROAP is João Nunes, born in Lisbon in 1960.

Graduated in Landscape Architecture from Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Master in Landscape Architecture from Escuela Tècnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcellona, Universitá Politecnica di Catalunya.

As International Director is responsible for the strategic, executive and tactical leadership of the three international offices: Lisbon (Portugal), Luanda (Angola) and Treviso (Italy). Develops PROAP’s conceptual and creative design and defines the strategic orientation of the research processes.

João Nunes teaches at the same Institute where he graduated, he is professor of Environmental Project at the Degree in Landscape, Urban and Environmental Planning from the “Universitá degli Studi di Sassari, Facoltà di Architectura di Alghero”, professor of Project at the Graduate Course of Architecture – Landscape Architecture at the IUAV, “Universitá di Venezia”, and extended his didactic activity as a lecturer in seminaries at various schools, as Harvard, “Universitá di Girona”, “Escuela Tècnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona”, “Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia”, “Politecnico di Milano”, “Politecnico di Torino”, “Roma – La Sapienza”, “Roma Ludovico Quaroni”, and the “Facoltà di Architettura di Napoli”, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.

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