Filipe Xavier Oliveira | Tecnodetail

Filipe Xavier Oliveira was born in Beja in 1980. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (2004) and PhD in Architecture by the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (2016) with the thesis: "In Praise of Structure – An Architectural Syntagma". As an architect he is author and co-author of over 70 works raging from housing to public buildings, focusing on the interdisciplinary between theory and practice. He has published works and articles on national and international magazines. He was an official architect of the Portuguese Army between 2007 and 2013. Architect at Odemira City Council from 2016 to 2018. Portuguese Army Architect since 2018. Founder of Tecnodetail Architectural and Engineering office since 2014.

Architectural Researcher of CIAUD. Internationally selected for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale on behalf of the New Zealand Pavilion with the theme: Critical Modernism – (Re) Building Politics. Internationally selected for papers/conferences at Glasgow School of Arts with the theme: Architecture as Petrified Music – a Tectonic definition; Oporto Faculty of Architecture – A Structural Synopsis in the Poetic Tectonic Era; Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon – Structure in Architecture – a definition in the Poetic Tectonic Age; ETSAM – In Praise of Structure – an Architectural Syntagma; among others.