FAUP Professor Teresa Fonseca will be honoured with the title of Honorary Member of the Order of Architects, in recognition of her ‘career of excellence, invaluable contribution to the development of architecture in Portugal, and lasting impact on the training of new generations of architects’. The ceremony will take place on 30 October at 6pm at the National Headquarters of the Order of Architects in Lisbon.

Throughout a career dedicated to architecture and urbanism, Teresa Fonseca has stood out for her design of projects on different scales and typologies, ranging from individual and collective housing buildings to commercial and office buildings, medical facilities and research laboratories.

She has taken part in various initiatives that promote architecture and reinforce its appreciation in society, emphasises the President of the Portuguese Architects' Association, Avelino Oliveira, always with a concern for improving the quality of life of communities.

Teresa Fonseca graduated in Architecture from the Porto School of Fine Arts (1980) and holds a doctorate from FAUP (1997). She was awarded the title of Aggregate in 2018 and was jubilated in 2023. In teaching and researching architecture at the institutions where she taught, first at ESBAP and then at FAUP, she has contributed to the critical and creative development of new generations of architects.

According to the Order of Architects, Teresa Fonseca is among nine architects who will receive this title - Alexandra Gesta and José Maria Lopes da Costa, both graduates in Architecture from ESBAP, Jorge Henrique Cardoso da Silva, Jorge Kol de Carvalho, Teresa Nunes da Ponte and Vasco Cunha - along with two more posthumously - Edmundo Tavares and José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo. In 2024, the Order will also award Honorary Membership to two organisations - the Serralves Foundation and the Serra Henriques Foundation.

The aim of this distinction is to recognise natural or legal persons for their relevant role and contributions in the field of architecture, highlighting the complexity and complementarity of the architect's activity.

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