Didier Fiuza Faustino
/ Bureau des Mésarchitectures

portugal

Architect

Didier Fiuza Faustino


www.mesarchitecture.com

Works:

Stairway to Heaven
Castelo Branco, Portugal, 2001
Casa Nostra
Rural and Suburban Areas, France, 2003

Principal Architect:

Didier Fiuza Faustino

Biography:

2002 Co-founder of the Label "Bureau des Mesarchitectures" in Paris.
2001 Co-founder and co-director of Numerofestival (international event of electronic music in Lisbon, Portugal ).
98-01 Co-foundeur and co-director of Numeromagazine ( Portuguese review of aesthetics and contemporary arts ).
96-99 Founder of LAPS ( Laboratory of Architecture, Performance and Sabotage ).
1995 Graduated in 1995 of the Paris-Villemin School of Architecture.

Principal Works:

2002- "UNTITLED HOUSE", private housing. (work in progress), France.
"A STARWAY TO HEAVEN", Almere, Castelo Branco, Portugal.
2002 "Arteplage Mobile du Jura", an itinerant floating theatre for the Switzerland national exhibition "Expo 02",Switzerland.
1997 "MY FIRST HOUSE", private housing,Portugal.

Awards:

2002 Laureate for the "albums de la Jeune Architecture 2002", the French Young Architecture Selection by the French Ministry of Culture.
2001 Laureate for the "Tabaqueira" award in 2001, a Portuguese prize for contemporary art.
2000 Laureate for the "L'envers des villes" award in 2000 by the "Caisse des Depots et Consignations" and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AFAA).

Publication/Writings:

2004 "Anticorps", 128 p., collection Frac Centre, ed. HYX. France.
"Stairway to Heaven", 158 p., ed. One Star Press ed. France.
2000 "Much ado about nothing", in Mutations / Urban Rumors, non pag. France.
1999 "Tirer un homme de sa torpeur", in Parpaing, n*3, "Expressions", pp. 20-23. France.
1998 "Mesarchitecture", in Numeromagazine, pp. 8-11. Portugal.