SUMMARY is an architecture practice based in the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto.
Seeking the balance between pragmatism and experimentalism, SUMMARY develops building systems assuming the optimization of time and physical resources as the core theme of its practice.
Team
- Samuel Gonçalves – architect | founder
- Mariana Ferreira – architect | project manager
- Pedro Rodrigues – architect | project manager
- Vicente Spínola – architect | project manager
- Pedro Penalva – architect
- Luca Sabbadini – architect | VR programmer
- Carolina Andrade – trainee architect
- Daria Cebula – trainee architect
- Ediz Üstündağ – trainee architect
- Elias Cauwenberghs – trainee architect
- Jakub Ludwig – trainee architect
- Jan Hibs – trainee architect
- Linda Panunzi – trainee architect
- Zoi Georgiadou – trainee architect
Awards
- 2017 Red Dot Award – winner
- 2018 Serralves Itinerant Pavilion – among the 3 selected projects
- 2018 Yap Maxxi – shortlisted
- 2018 40 under 40 European Design Award – winner
- 2020 “Emerging Architect of the Year” by Dezeen
- 2021 SUMMARY integrated in the Best New Practices of 2021 selection, by ArchDaily
Exhibitions
- 2016 La Biennale di Venezia – 15th International Architecture Exhibition (Italy)
- 2017 Red Dot Design Museum of Singapure
- 2018 Serralves Foundation – Work in Progress (Portugal)
- 2018 Maxxi National Museum of 21st Century Arts – Yap Maxxi (Italy)
- 2018 Mirabilia – Le Città Invisibili di Italo Calvino– Antilia Gallery, Bari (Italy)
- 2018 NLA – Factory-made housing: a solution for London?, NLA galleries, London (UK)
- 2019 MAM – Mês da Arquitetura da Maia – Fast Forward, Maia (Portugal)
- 2018 Curatorial Project: The Reasons Offsite – Tirana Architecture Week, POLIS University – Tirana (Albania)
- 2019 Curatorial Project: The Reasons Offsite – Boston Society of Architects/AIA – Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
- 2019 Curatorial Project: The Reasons Offsite – Neufert Box, Weimar (Germany)
- 2019 Curatorial Project: The Reasons Offsite – University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK)
- 2022 Curatorial Project: The Reasons Offsite – Portuguese Centre for Architecture (Matosinhos, Portugal)
- 2023 Curatorial Project: MAM – Mês da Arquitetura da Maia – Em Processo (Maia, Portugal)
Conferences / Public presentations:
- 2017 Building as a Summary Process – Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Poland)
- 2017 Prokalo Seminar Series – Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), The University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK)
- 2017 Building as a Summary Process – Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw (Poland)
- 2018 Scaffolding Project – Workshop Leader at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Poland)
- 2019 Boston Society of Architects (USA)
- 2019 Budapest Contemporary Architecture Centre – KEK (Hungary)
- 2021 Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning – CAMP [online] (Czech Republic)
- 2022 Faculty of Architecture of the Yeditepe University (Turkey)
- 2022 Portsmouth School of Architecture [online] (UK)
- 2023 ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
- 2023 Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)