D-A Studio [Domitianus- Architecture, lda] is an architecture firm, founded in 2004, in Lisbon, led by Paulo Tormenta Pinto and Rosa Maria Bastos. With more than a decade and a half of existence, D-A Studio operates contractually with public and private entities, developing projects in architecture, conservation and restoration, urbanism, and public space. The work developed by D-A Studio was awarded and distinguished, being frequently published in architecture books and magazines.
This site presents a selection of projects and buildings, which in its set contributed to clarifying the conceptual line followed by D-A Studio. Projects of various scales explore multiple programmatic itineraries, based on detailed solutions, where the quality of space results from the articulation between architectural culture and the spirit of each place.
D-A Studio considers the influence of the architectural debate promoted in Portugal during the last quarter of the 20th century, as a starting point for the work it carries out. D-A Studio seeks to affirm a humanist, and integrative discourse, in close articulation with the territory and the environment. At D-A Studio each project is explored in a rigorous way, considering that the quality of architecture is consummated by the relationship with time.
This site presents a selection of projects and buildings, which in its set contributed to clarifying the conceptual line followed by D-A Studio. Projects of various scales explore multiple programmatic itineraries, based on detailed solutions, where the quality of space results from the articulation between architectural culture and the spirit of each place.
D-A Studio considers the influence of the architectural debate promoted in Portugal during the last quarter of the 20th century, as a starting point for the work it carries out. D-A Studio seeks to affirm a humanist, and integrative discourse, in close articulation with the territory and the environment. At D-A Studio each project is explored in a rigorous way, considering that the quality of architecture is consummated by the relationship with time.
Paulo Tormenta Pinto was born in Lisbon in 1970. He is Professor of Architecture at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon. He has directed influential research on architectural culture, including *The Critical Monumentality of Álvaro Siza* (Circo de Ideias, 2024), and has collaborated internationally as a visiting professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and the University of São Paulo (USP). His architectural work has garnered international acclaim, recently receiving the FORMA Prize (2022), the Teotónio Pereira Prize (2022), being a finalist for the FAD Awards (2022), and nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2022 and 2024.
