João Morgado is a Portuguese architectural photographer based in Porto, specializing in capturing the nuance and light of built environments with a strong sense of form, materiality, and context. He studied architecture (MSc, ISCTE, Lisbon) and transitioned into architectural photography around 2007.
His work has been recognized internationally—he won the ARCAID Images Architecture Photography Award in 2014 in the Sense of Place category for his aerial photo of Álvaro Siza Vieira’s Piscinas das Marés, and has been published in numerous leading design and architecture magazines. His portfolio spans residential, public, and institutional projects in Portugal and abroad, often incorporating drone and aerial perspectives alongside more traditional photography.
LOCATION: Porto, Portugal
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Designing in suburban housing developments presents a significant urbanistic challenge. These areas often lack a cohesive strategic vision, making it difficult to establish a strong urban identity or enhance the quality of life they provide. As a…
Sky Base One Villa, designed by Bespoke Architects, began with a unique client vision—a villa inspired by science fiction classics. This led to an exploration of balance, drawing on principles of Chinese Taoism, to create a space…
Nestled in the agricultural parish of Gandra in Esposende, Casa de Campo by PF Architecture Studio offers a serene escape for a family seeking respite from city life. This unassuming yet thoughtfully crafted home embraces Portugal’s northern…
The Longing 500 mg Apartment itself is the ground floor unit in a building designed by the well-known Pedro Ferreira Architecture Studio and where two one-bedroom apartments were originally located.
Located in a small village in the interior of Portugal, at 900m altitude, the Gafanha’s House emerges from the need of rehabilitating an existing building occupied by a family member.
Located on the bank of the historical National 18 and with a view over the Serra da Estrela, the old stone house began by occupying the rocks that rose near the stream that flows through it.
Its layout coincides with the Decumanus Maximus of the roman Braga, rising from west to east towards the Forum, and it’s the final leg of both the Via XX (connecting Astorga to Braga partially by sea) and…
The Duarte Pacheco Quarter where it stands, built between 1935 and 1939, was part of the “Estado Novo” (the authoritarian regime that ruled Portugal from 1933 to 1974) social housing policies in a moment of severe lack…
The purpose of this interior redesign for a recently built townhouse was to extract the maximum potential from the building characteristics, increasing both its functional capacity and the quality of its use.
