Rodrigo da Costa Lima
William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design
Rodrigo da Costa Lima studied architecture at Universidade Lusíada do Porto. Before establishing his own office in 2007 with Amélia Brandão Costa, he learned from João Pedro
Serôdio, Isabel Furtado, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
His works and writings have been awarded, published, and presented in lectures and exhibitions. He is
founder and editor of Indexnewspaper – selected for the MOMA NY Library Collection - which has been
awarded and exhibited worldwide. He published and edited several articles and books.
He has been professor, guest critic, lecturer and jury at different architecture schools worldwide such as
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Architectural Association, Akademie der Bildenden Künst
München, Chulalongkorn University, EPFL, ETH Zürich, FAUP, Harvard GSD, KU Leuven, La Salle
Barcelona, MIT, Miami School of Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, RCA, TU
München, Yale School of Architecture, among others.
Rodrigo is Founding Director of the Porto Academy.
Practice
Architecture Matters