Teamwork is paramount. The team is always adapting, transferring staff for other vocational or motivational needs, with observance of personal appetites and skills, in search of greater personal motivation and professional fulfilment. Alliances and closeness are created that produce a transversal feeling and involvement where each and every one integrates the non-segmented whole.
Team
Team
Teamwork is paramount. The team is always adapting, transferring staff for other vocational or motivational needs, with observance of personal appetites and skills, in search of greater personal motivation and professional fulfilment. Alliances and closeness are created that produce a transversal feeling and involvement where each and every one integrates the non-segmented whole.
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Studio
Studio
We are a team of over 50 collaborators from different nationalities working on a wide range of projects with different scales and programs, from singular houses to large scale residential buildings and hotels, institutional buildings to masterplans.
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Established in 2010, OODA came about as a result of the reunion between Diogo Brito and Rodrigo Vilas-Boas. Francisco Lencastre joined the office in 2011, initially based in the historical city centre of Porto. In 2018 João Jesus and Julião Pinto Leite joined to expand OODA to five partners.
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Process
Process
OODA’s ideological and methodological principles within a regional and global architecture aim to challenge and change the traditional architectural model, leading to a more contemporary approach to the way of practice and promotion of architecture.
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OODA’s ideological and methodological principles within a regional and global architecture aim to challenge and change the traditional architectural model, leading to a more contemporary approach to the way of practice and promotion of architecture.
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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 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.
João Jesus
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.
Julião Pinto Leite
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.
Rodrigo Vilas-Boas
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.
X!? Ten Years OODA
X!? Ten Years OODA
More than presenting and dissecting the work of the practice, this book is an adventure in technical and artistic exchanges. It is divided into three parts; the appraisal of the first ten years and also predictions for the next ten; a presentation of case studies and projects according to six criteria and knowledge approaches; and the Dissection of the ten years that have passed, along an explanation of the functional and business structure.
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More than presenting and dissecting the work of the practice, this book is an adventure in technical and artistic exchanges. It is divided into three parts; the appraisal of the first ten years and also predictions for the next ten; a presentation of case studies and projects according to six criteria and knowledge approaches; and the Dissection of the ten years that have passed, along an explanation of the functional and business structure.
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