TC 177/78- João Mendes Ribeiro
This double issue brings together, across 406 pages, twenty-five years of work by the Portuguese architect João Mendes Ribeiro (Coimbra, 1960) through eighteen works built in Portugal and Spain between 2000 and 2026. Trained in Porto and assistant to Fernando Távora in Coimbra during the 1990s, Mendes Ribeiro has developed a singular career in which architecture, theatre set design and the design of objects and interiors feed into one another. The result is an architecture that tends towards the essential, attentive to the truth of materials and to the scale of the body, and that understands construction as a precise
