António Maria Braga is a Portuguese architect, who specializes in

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. Together with the architect Alberto Castro Nunes, he was the 8th winner of the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture, awarded in 2019.

Education

António Braga graduated in

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in 1980 from the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes of Lisbon (ESBAL), today the Faculty of Architecture of the

University of Lisbon The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; ) is a public university, public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. It was founded in 1911, but the university's present structure dates to the 2013 merger of the former Universit ...

, which at the time offered an exclusively

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curriculum. António Braga thus developed his mastery of traditional architecture outside his academic years.

Major projects

File:Mesquita Central de Lisboa Joao Paulo Conceiçao 2 (cropped).jpg, Central Mosque of Lisbon (1985), together with João Paulo Conceição. File:Museu Arqueológico Odrinhas.jpg, Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas (1999), together with Alberto Castro Nunes and

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. File:Antigo_Castelo_e_Biblioteca_Municipal_de_Odemira.jpg,

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Public Library of Odemira (2000), together with Alberto Castro Nunes File:CinematecaPortuguesa_03.JPG">Renovation of the Cinemateca Portuguesa building (2002), together with Alberto Castro Nunes. File:Museu_da_Água_-_Lisboa_-_Portugal_(34364906673).jpg, Expansion of the Museu da Água in Lisbon File:Mercado_de_Campo_de_Ourique_Fachada_norte.jpg">Renovation of the Campo de Ourique Market (2013).

Awards

*2019: Winner of the Rafael Manzano Prize, together with Alberto Castro Nunes *2002: Shortlisted for the , together with Alberto Castro Nunes

References

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