No Place is Deserted

Teresa Cunha Ferreira is an architect from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) and has a European PhD from the Politecnico di Milano (2009). She has professional experience in the Northern Regional Directorate for Buildings and Monuments (formerly DGEMN), among other collaborations, consultancies and projects. Since 2007, he has been teaching at the Politecnico di Milano, the School of Architecture at the University of Minho and the FAUP (from 2012 to the present). Since 2009, she has been an integrated member of CEAU-FAUP, in the 'Heritage of Architecture, City and Territory' Group (PACT), where she coordinates research projects such as 'Keeping It Modern: Álvaro Siza, Piscina de Marés' (IR, Getty Foundation), 'Atlas of heritage design: contributions from the Porto School' (IR, FCT), 'SizaATLAS: Bridging gaps in World Heritage' (co-IR, FCT), among others. She is the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair "Heritage, Cities and Landscapes. Sustainable Management, Conservation, Planning and Design" at the University of Porto and executive coordinator of the World Heritage nomination of a group of Álvaro Siza's works.

Luís Martinho Urbano (Coimbra, 1972) is an architect and professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP). He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Coimbra (1998), where he completed a postgraduation in “Architecture, Territory and Memory" (2004). He holds a PhD in Architecture from FAUP, defending the thesis “In-Between worlds. Architecture e Cinema in Portugal, 1959-1974”. He has presented talks and written articles on architecture and cinema in numerous national and international conferences and publications. He edited the books “Designing Light” (2007), “Mundo Perfeito” (2008), “Revoluções” (2013) and “Circa 1963 (2018), as well as of “JACK. Journal on Architecture and Cinema”. He authored the books “Histórias Simples” (2013) and “No Place is Deserted (2022, with Teresa Ferreira). He directed the short films “Sizígia” (2012), “The House Next Door” (2012), “How to Draw a House” (2014) and the documentary “Morada” (2019). He curated the exhibitions “Mundo Perfeito” (FAUP, 2008), “More than architecture” (Marques da Silva Foundation, 2020) and “No Place is Deserted” (FAUP, 2022). He is the director of the  BackBackPack Cultural Association and Vice- President of the Marques da Silva Foundation.