SUMMARY was the studio selected to develop the rehabilitation project for several public parks and a set of supporting buildings. This project covers an area of ​​45 hectares and will involve the participation of a multidisciplinary team, together with Adão da Fonseca, Floradata and Rita Guedes – Arquitetura Paisagista.

SUMMARY projects presented in the article “New forms of construction: the future of housing lives here”.

“Design for disassembly and cultural sites – The use of modular architecture and prefabrication in exhibition venues”. A new scientific article published in Vitruvio International Journal, featuring several SUMMARY projects, authored by Giuseppe Resta and Samuel Gonçalves.

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 in Arouca was featured in the “Homes for Our Time. Small Houses” 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.

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.

SUMMARY is working with five 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. These social housing projects, which total 150 homes across the five municipalities, will be completed by June 2026.

“The Reasons Offsite,” a curatorial project created by SUMMARY, on display at the Casa da Arquitectura – Portuguese Centre for Architecture between June and October 2022. This virtual exhibition provides a radiograph of the historical evolution of modular and prefabricated architecture through 25 constructive systems and tests produced by Jorge Christie & Martin Alvarez, Pablo Jimenez Moreno, Pedro Alonso & Hugo Palmarola, and Yona Friedman.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SUMMARY was invited to lecture on Design Processes for the Communication Fundamentals course, at the Portsmouth School of Architecture.