São Francisco house by Filipe Pina

Filipe Pina is a Portuguese architect trained at the University of Beira Interior in Covilhã, Portugal, where he earned a Master's degree in Architecture between 2003 and 2008. During his studies, he participated in an Erasmus exchange program at the Prima Facoltà di Architettura Ludovico Quaroni of Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) from 2006 to 2007, expanding his training in international academic environments.

After graduating, Pina gained professional experience in various contexts, including internships in Paris: at the Médiathèque de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine through the Inov-Art program, and at the Service Départemental de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine through a Leonardo da Vinci grant, both in 2009.

His professional career also included work in the Urban Planning Department of the Celorico da Beira City Council (2011–2012) and a stint as an architect at Modular-System in Porto (2013–2015). Before establishing his own studio, he developed individual projects and collaborations from 2011 onward, and formed professional partnerships, including with Maria Inês Costa and with the architect David Bilo.

In 2014, Filipe Pina founded his own studio in the city of Guarda, Portugal: Filipe Pina Arquitectura. Since then, he has led a workshop that tackles projects of varying scales, with an approach that explores the relationship between contemporary architecture and the local roots and materials of the Portuguese context. The studio works on both renovations and new constructions, where an interest in vernacular architecture is evident, reinterpreted through contemporary, sustainable, and site-sensitive solutions.

Among his most representative works are renovations and extensions of traditional Portuguese houses, such as Casa Caldeira and Casa NaMora, where he combines traditional materials—like granite, slate, and wood—with contemporary design and construction strategies, always in dialogue with the landscape and the memory of the place.