On November 19, the inauguration ceremony of Ana Tostões, architect and guest lecturer of the Doctoral Program in Architecture - PDA at FAUP, as a Member of the Académie d'Architecture took place in Paris.

The ceremony was marked by the conference ‘La modernité portugaise. À la recherche du temps perdu suivi du temps retrouvé’, given by Ana Tostões, with a presentation by Pablo Katz and Christiane Schmuckle-Mollard.

With this distinction, the architect joins a group of personalities who have distinguished themselves in the field of architecture, alongside architects widely recognized for their contribution to the discipline, such as Rafael Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Gonçalo Byrne, Paulo David, Álvaro Siza, and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

In 2024, Ana Tostões had already been awarded the ‘Médaille de la critique et des publications, Prix Académie d’Architecture’, given to personalities who have contributed to the enrichment of architectural debate through their writings, publications, and research.

Created in 1671 by Colbert, the Académie d’Architecture's mission is to promote the quality of architecture and urban planning, the teaching of the discipline, and the preservation of documentation relevant to the history of architecture and architects.

Ana Tostões is an architect, architecture critic, and historian. A full professor at IST-University of Lisbon, she has been president of the Portuguese section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) since 2021. Internationally recognized in the field of modern preservation and sustainable reuse of the contemporary built environment, she has been a consultant on renovations of world-renowned buildings and is a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, the Universidad de Navarra, the Politecnico di Milano, and the University of Porto. She has also taken sabbaticals at the University of Texas at Austin, UFRGS in Porto Alegre, and the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. For FAUP Publications, he edited the book A Idade Maior (The Elderly), the result of research dedicated to the Modern Movement in Portugal.

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