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Pedro Duarte Bento is an architect based in New York City developing a cross-disciplinary production between Art and Architecture.

Contact for info and catalogue: pedroduartebento@gmail.com

2011-05-02T23:52:00.056+01:00

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PEDRO DUARTE BENTO
Portugal, 1976
Lives and works in New York City

Graduated in Architecture by Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon FA-UTL
Education in Large-format Photography by the School of the International Center of Photography ICP, New York
Founder and Curator-at-Large of NOGO, project-room and think-tank for Contemporary Art and Architecture (link)

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Collections
Colecção BES arte, Banco Espirito Santo, Lisboa, PT
Colecção Museu do Oriente, Lisboa, PT
Colecção Câmara Municipal de Loures, PT
private collections

Solo exhibitions
2010 Shipbreaking, Museu do Oriente, Lisboa, PT
2009 'yours truly, postcards from the suburbs', Galeria Pedro Serrenho Arte Contemporanea, Lisboa PT

Collective exhibitions

2011 Public Domain: Public and Civic Spaces in the Arab World, Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA, London, UK

2010 Scattered Spaces, Galeria Zoom cc-ac, Lisboa, PT
2010 Bienal de Arte Jovens (va)Loures, PT
2009 Building Rooms, Galeria Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporanea, Lisboa, PT
2009 Sure we had Reasons but we had no Goals, COLLEC.tiff 02 Lisboa, PT
2009 Bienal de Arte de Vila Verde, PT
2009 COLLEC.tiff 01, Barcelona, SP
2006 Self-sufficient Housing, IaaC Barcelona, SP

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Professional Experience (Architecture)
Licensed Architect, member of OA Ordem dos Arquitectos, Portuguese Architects Association since 2006
Senior Designer at SOM, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, New York City, USA, since 2011

Past
2007/08 Intermediate Designer at SOM, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, New York City, USA
2007/ Junior Designer (Summer Internship) at James Corner Field Operations, New York City, USA
2006/07 Junior Architect at Josep Lluis Mateo Map Architects, Barcelona, SP
2003/05 Junior Architect/Intern at VAO Arquitectos Associados, Lisboa, PT

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Grants
Orient Foundation Fellowship to report the Shipbreaking industries in India and Bangladesh

Prizes, Mentions and Awards
2010 Honorable Mention // Bienal de Arte Jovens (va)Loures, PT
2007 Finalist // 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest IaaC '07 // International Competition 'Selffab house', Barcelona, SP
2006 Honorable Mention // International Competition 'Installation for the Jewish Museum', Warsaw, PL
2005 Finalist // 1st Advanced Architecture Contest IaaC '05 // International Competition 'Self-sufficient single Housing', Barcelona, SP

Jury member and tutor
2011 — Invited tutor for Ecological Urbanism Workshop, EUVG/PARQ Coimbra, PT (April 26/29th)
2010 — Invited juror for 'Reflective Creativity Studio' at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA (Dec 14th)

Performed lectures
2011 — Lecture 'Do Not Retain Images but Rather Words', Kuwait City, KT (March 12th)
2010 — Lecture 'NOGO, project-room for Architecture and Contemporary Art', at Pecha Kucha Night, Lisbon, PT (June 1st)
2008 — Lecture 'Shipbreaking, the metamorphosis of the landscape' at Pecha Kucha Night, Harvard GSD, USA (Feb 22nd )
2007 — Lecture 'Shipbreaking, the metamorphosis of the landscape', Portuguese Society of Geography, Lisbon, PT (Oct 9th)

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Prizes collaborating with Josep Lluís Mateo - Map Architects, Barcelona (2006/2007):
1st prize // hospital girona - international competition [spain]; 1st prize // billancourt-boulogne quartier in paris - international competition [france]; 1st prize // bayonne waterfront - international competition [france]; 1st prize // ninot public market barcelona - invitation competition [spain]; 2nd prize // sabadell bank headquarters - invitation competition [spain]; finalist // park city moscow - international competition [russia]; finalist // tortosa university - national competition [spain]

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PUBLICATIONS & MONOGRAPHS

House 4226
in «Maisons en Kit» book, Collection AnArchitecture, Editions Alternatives, Paris, 2011 (link)

Shipbreaking in Bangladesh
in Revista Oriente, 2011 (link)

Housing (in)sanity
in AI Arquitectura Ibérica #35, september 2010, pgs 12/19

Geração Z, Perspectivas Críticas
in arqa #84/85, september/october 2010, pgs 36/38

Nashville, City Entrance
in Catálogo Bienal de Arte Jovens (va)Loures, 2010, pgs 38/39

Self-fab Community Housing
in Actar's Self-Fab House Book, 2010, actar editions

Old Woman and American Flag
in Attitude #27, may 2009, pg 216

Shipbreaking in Bangladesh
in KORE magazine #00, july 2008, front and back cover and pg 28/29

Shipbreaking in Bangladesh
in JPG magazine #16, june 2008, pg 67

Hybrid Country House
in House Traders #18, october 2007, pg 104

Hybrid Country House
in Attitude Interior Design #15, march 2007, pg 37

Installation for the Jewish Museum
in House Traders #11, august 2006, pg 68

Self-sufficient Single Housing
in Actar's Self-Sufficient Housing Book, june 2006, actar editions, pgs 92/94

Modular skinHOUSES
in Arquitectura e Vida #69, march 2006, pgs 68/69

Self-sufficient Single Housing
in Arquitectura e Vida #69, march 2006, pgs 70/71

Quiosque p.h.o.l.e.
in Arquitectura e Vida #62, july/august 2005, pgs 62-63

Quiosque p.h.o.l.e.
in ESPAÇOS #43, july/august 2005, pg 81

SPA Hotel Lisbonense
in Cidade Termal #7, december 2004, pgs 42/43/45

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