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About Us

OODA is an intuitive architecture practice based in Oporto and led by Diogo Brito, Francisco Lencastre, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, João Jesus and Julião Pinto Leite. Established in 2010, the office is operating worldwide and focused on the production of relevant, meaningful and quality content. With sensibility and optimism, the office is working on a wide range of projects, from singular houses to large scale hotels, from institutional buildings to museums and religious spaces, from masterplans to small furniture pieces.

OODA work is a combination of a huge variety of references and inspirations, different formal grammars, narratives and perceptions which all combined intend to express a thoughtful and significant process of architecture process in all its fields. A process without pretension or artificiality but rather obscessed with making better mistakes and better choices each project at a time.

OODA office in Oporto is a space with more than 400 sqm including several meeting rooms and work spaces for an overall team of more than 30 people specially conceived to receive all kind of national and international clients. It is located near the Atlantic seaside shore. Inside, could be everywhere.

Diogo Brito

Partner/Principal. Born in Oporto he received his Master in Architecture from FAULP (Porto) in 2006. Before founding OODA in 2009, Diogo worked as an architect with Zaha Hadid Architects in London (2007/2009) and previously with Promontorio Architects in Lisbon. In between, Diogo is also an almost professional writer and screenwriter.

Francisco Lencastre

Partner/Principal. Born in Oporto he received his Master in Architecture from FAULP (Porto) in 2007. Before joining OODA in 2010, Francisco worked as an architect and project manager with Menos é Mais Architects (Guedes+deCampos) in Oporto and received the architecture prize ”Secil Award” in 2007. In between, Francisco is also an almost professional golf player.

Rodrigo Vilas-Boas

Partner/Principal. Born in Oporto he received his Master in Architecture from FAULP (Porto) in 2005. Before founding OODA in 2009, Rodrigo worked as an architect with OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Roterdam (2007/2009) and previously with Manuel Ventura in Oporto. In between, Rodrigo is an almost professional padel player.

João Jesus

Partner/Principal. Born in Oporto, he received his Master in Architecture from FAUP (Porto) in 2008. Before joining OODA in 2018, João collaborated with several studios including OMA in Rotterdam, Carrilho da Graça in Lisbon and as a Partner of the former collective LIKEarchitects. In between, João is also an almost professional scuba diver.

Julião Pinto Leite

Partner/Principal. Born in Oporto, he received his Master in Architecture from FAUP (Porto) in 2007. Before joining OODA in 2018, he worked as an architect and project leader with José Carlos Cruz (2010-2018) and previously with Allies and Morrison Architects in London (2008-2009) and Serôdio Furtado & Associados in Oporto (2007). In between, Julião is also an almost professional illustrator.

Our team

Behind every great achievement there is always great people.
Our people, from the earlier days until present team: Francisca Santos, Francisco Rugeroni, Lourenço Menezes Rodrigues, Duarte Fontes, Luis de Sousa, Tiago Sá, Mariana Barbieri Cardoso, Inês Aires, Diogo Mesquita, Isabel Vincke, Joana Vaz, José Pedro Valente, Joana Sobrinho Maduro, José Mendalha, Luisa Coelho, Vânia Santos, Pedro Trindade, Filipe Estrela, Anna Siviero, Alexandra Ezquerra, Kasparas Ziliukas, Carlota Lima, Nicolau Barrote, Matej Smicka, Pavel Dornicak, Manuel Tavares, Aleksadra Posala, Milosz Korczak, Simon Ruey, João Quinás, Duc Truong, Grégoire Trutta, Gabriele Jureviciute, Ellie Athanasiadou, Margarida Maurício, Mia Baraka, Vânia Reis, Alexandra Smeets, Boroka Felso, Arthur Paul Camille, Tiago Torre, João Styliano, Joana Valinho, Grégory dos Santos, Luis Choupina, Inês Monteiro, Pedro Rocha, Jiahong Huang, Ugne Stankaityte, Ruta Simutyte, Ondrej Jezbera, André Veiga, Joana Ferreira, Giulia Kaiser, Cristina Peres, Ana Soares, Evdoxia Golobia, André Lima, Jorge Salguero, Vânia Couto, Thiru Manickam, Daniela Mastronardi, Daniela Lopes, Natalia Tkaczyk, Kenza Attia, Tomas Valentinaitis, Klara Zugarova, Pedro Cruz, Artemis Papanikolaou, Marinos Skouras, Emanuel Grave, João Oliveira, Mustafa Anil Erkan, Nicòlo Sciolti, Filipa Rodrigues, Antigona Pinto, Ana Baltac, Gonçalo Castro, Alaa Al Hariri  (…)

It´s very easy to be different but is very difficult to be better

Jonathan Ive

Architecture is just architecture

ALDO ROSSI

Invent each project from its very own problem

Alvaro Siza

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Good design is good business

Thomas Watson Jr.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit over and over so it looks effortless.

ZAHA HADID

Architects works in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client´s need or demand. Another is to look at what the clients asks and reinterpret it.

Rem Koolhaas

Details are not the details. They make the design.

Charles Eames