SUMMARY’s most recent projects are published in Arquitectura Viva issue #281.

Following the release of the European Affordable Housing Plan, Samuel Gonçalves presents his analysis on RTP Notícias, commenting on the main measures of this new European Commission initiative: increasing supply, limiting short-term rentals, cutting through bureaucracy, and a €385 billion investment package.

SUMMARY’s most recent projects are published in Archistorm’s #135 issue.

Samuel Gonçalves joins the panel at the Solution Summit in Bratislava with the lecture ‘Prefabrication as a Design Method’.

Premiere of “Dwellers” at the Porto Design Biennale 2025. A documentary by Anders Khan Bolin and Martin Konzett that invites us to rethink the ways we inhabit and transform cities. The film features interviews with architects and researchers – Lucinda Correia, Ricardo Santos, Carolina Delgado, Bráulio Conceição, Tom Avermaete, and Samuel Gonçalves – who approach architecture as a continuous negotiation between space, need, and memory.

The FABER Forum, in Tirana, fosters debate on sustainable urban development. In this edition, SUMMARY shows how industrialised construction can reduce environmental impacts, shorten timelines, and improve on-site working conditions.

SUMMARY participates in Architecture at the Edge. This edition highlights the architecture of everyday life, revealing the invisible elements that surround us and influence us in more or less conscious ways.

SUMMARY is present in Archi Summit ’25 roundtable to introduce and discuss new construction methods with Carlos Baião, Miguel da Costa Ribeiro, and António Faria Carreira. The event is organized by António Choupina and Joanna Helm.

The premiere showing of the documentary “Habitar,” directed by Joaquín Mora and produced by Canal180, filled the Álvaro Siza Space at Casa da Arquitectura. Dedicated to the city of Porto and starring a group of nine inhabitants, the film served as an introduction to the conversation under the theme “The House We Want to Live In.” This conversation brought together Joaquín Mora, Fátima Vilar, resident of the SAAL-Antas housing, and architects Pedro Ramalho and Samuel Gonçalves.

SUMMARY is looking for a full-time Civil Engineer to join its team in Porto, for the development of projects in all their phases, from conception to execution and budgeting. Experience 3+ years, BIM-Revit. Application/CV: info@summary.pt

SUMMARY integrates the conference series “In Action – How Do We Build Today,” organized by Ordem dos Arquitetos and curated by DepA. In these lectures and debates, one of the key paradoxes in contemporary architecture is addressed: the challenge of resource scarcity alongside the necessity to increase and accelerate construction.

Our 11 retreat cabins in the woods is featured in “Homes for Our Time. Small Houses”, a publication by Philip Jodidio for TASCHEN.

Curated by Hinterland Studio, “Por Exemplo” opens up space for young Portuguese and Spanish architects to showcase their work and innovative thinking. Within this framework, SUMMARY presents its latest projects, including modular solutions for affordable kindergartens and public housing.

There are several paths to sustainability, “Build: From high to low tech” invites 7 architects to share their perspective on the theme. From digital fabrication to natural materials, this roundtable provides discussion around design goals and strategies. With the participation of Oficina Pedrêz, Branco del Rio Arquitectos, Jérémy Pernet, CRUA Atelier, Muro Atelier, SUMMARY, and moderation of Prof. Alexandra Paio.

SUMMARY is working with six Portuguese municipalities to develop cost-controlled housing projects. The studio has been developing and implementing modular and prefabricated systems to respond to the challenges of the housing crisis within the deadlines stipulated in the PRR – the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan.

Samuel Gonçalves is invited to discuss Architecture, Sustainability, Health and Economics in the Connecting Healthcare 2022 summit in Porto.

MAM’23 – “EM PROCESSO” exhibition documents some of the main interventions that are currently taking place in Maia, focusing on public projects. Architects and professionals from other disciplines are invited to present their views on these transformations. SUMMARY’s curatorial proposal presents itself as an ode to change, urban evolution, and social dynamics that Maia is currently the stage for.

As part of the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) ‘The question of Housing in NEB goes South – International Laboratory’, the BuildUp#3 addresses new ways of looking at housing, from the use of biogenic materials to prefabrication, with the participation of Guinée*Potin Architectes, Branco Del-Río Arquitectos and SUMMARY.

Contemporary challenges and developments in technology inevitably trigger changes in the way we design and build our cities. We talked with Archdaily about the firm’s practical experience in prefabrication and modulation, as well as our experiments and forays into research.

SUMMARY’s Gomos building system was the winner in the category of “Best in Construction” of Monocle Design Awards 2022.

Multiplicity is an exhibition curated by Tau Tavengwa and Vyjayanthi Rao, that features the work of individuals, practices and organisations from across the globe experimenting in myriad ways with architecture, while reclaiming and redefining it as a powerful tool in fighting for environmental, economic and social equity and justice. Held at the MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea within the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

“Prefabrication is not an end, but a means”: interview with Samuel Gonçalves, fom SUMMARY | ArchDaily.

SUMMARY’s lecture on Pre-fabrication and Virtuality at KÉK – Contemporary Architecture Centre, Budapest.

Architecture students from different countries competed during the 2022 Summer School to build the best houseboat, the international Floating House Design Competition in the area of floating architecture developed by the Miami School of Architecture in partnership with Go Friday. SUMMARY was part of the jury team, with Veruska Vasconez, Manuel Collares-Pereira, Guta Moura Guedes and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

The exhibition “Radar Veneza – Portuguese Architects in the Biennale 1975-2021” at the Casa da Arquitectura – Portuguese Centre for Architecture, from curators Joaquim Moreno and Alexandra Areia, proposes the critical analysis of the forms that constitute the Portuguese presence in the Biennale de Venezia. Summary’s project “Infrastructure—Structure—Architecture” is part of this collective.

This edition of Maia Architecture Month focuses on a program that aims to think about the future of the city of Maia, where a group of emerging architects were invited to imagine, exhibit, discuss, reflect and revisit the architecture of the city of Maia in the year 2119 in a utopian and dystopian way. SUMMARY participates with the Virtual Reality installation “The Tunnel”, where it revisits the project for the N14 tunnel developed in 2004 by João Álvaro Rocha, in a prospective and provocative way.

DepA Architects, FALA and SUMMARY, with the moderation of Joana Couceiro, present at the Faculty of Architecture – Porto University the launch of the theme MA Magazine issue III – INVERTER.

​Futurebuild 2019 brings together opinion-shapers, decision-makers and product innovators to explore the latest technologies and approaches in construction and debate the biggest issues facing the built environment – both in the UK and overseas. The event takes place at EXceL, London.

What opportunities and challenges does factory-made housing present the future of housing in London? Roundtables, viewpoints and interviews, have been combined with a call out for projects to produce this piece of research into factory-made housing. The outcomes of this have formed a publication, this exhibition and a series of events.

Dedalo Magazine, promoted by AEFAUP – Faculty of Architecture of Porto University Students’ Association, invites architects, students, and researchers to contribute to the issue under the theme “Transgressive Practices”. SUMMARY participates with an essay about the technical innovations of prefabricated elements and their tectonic impact on the projects.

The studio’s projects VDC, GOMOS#1 and Ci3 on display at the European Center Museum / Contemporary Space Athens.

SUMMARY participates in Tirana Architecture Week with a public lecture and with the display of “The Reasons Offsite” exhibition.

Mirabilia invited international artists, architects, and designers to interpret Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” into models/sculptures. Fifty-five cities are exhibited, bringing the book into physicality. The interpretations shown in Mirabilia elaborate on the relationship of space and written word. The show invites you to get lost through the doors and archways, catching surprises of golden fragments, and glimpses of the sky as specular reflections of water move with the breath of the wind.

“Building Summary Processes” is the theme of our lecture at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, keeping the focus on the conception, building, and processes rather than on the results.

The Gomos construction system wins the international Red Dot Award: Design Concepts, in the ‘Habitat’ category.