Pedro Machado Costa

Pedro Machado Costa was born in Lourenço Marques in 1972. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in 1996 and completed a master’s degree at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon in 2004. He later completed a Diploma of Advanced Studies within the doctoral programme at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. His academic training also included periods at Delft University of Technology and the École d’Architecture Paris-Conflans.

He worked with Manuel Vicente in Macau and Lisbon, and later with Manuel Graça Dias. In 1997, he co-founded a.s* – atelier de santos, where he designed and coordinated a wide range of projects until 2014. Since 2015, he has led Machado Costa Arquitectos, developing work across housing, public and institutional buildings, hospitality, renovation, urban planning and landscape.

Alongside professional practice, he has maintained continuous involvement in teaching and research. He taught at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura y Tecnología in Madrid and at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, and later directed PARQ, the School of Architecture and Landscape at Universidade Vasco da Gama in Coimbra. As a researcher at Dinâmia’CET-IUL, his work has focused on the relationship between architecture, the city and landscape.

He also writes on architecture and urban culture and has curated several exhibitions, extending his engagement with architectural discourse beyond professional practice.