André Rocha is a Portuguese artist and architect with a passion for drawing cities, real or imagined. He graduated in 2005 by the Departament of Architecture of the University of Coimbra with a final thesis on the Theme: “Cinemas de Portugal -evolução arquitectónica em Portugal”. He then took an Internship with the architect José Fernando Gonçalves, with whom he still collaborated until 2008. While still working on the field of Architecture, he updates his blogues about drawing, cartooning and urbanism regularly and this resulted on the colaboration for the making of the opening of the TV show: “Público Imobiliário”, a RTPN/Jornal Público partnership as well as on the selection of two of his cartoons for the “X PortoCartoon” under the Theme: “Human Rights”. His artwork is represented in private colections in countries like Portugal, Australia, UK and United States. He currently lives in Ponte de Lima where he founded the André Rocha A+D+I.
