Fernando Guerra is a Lisbon-based architectural photographer and co-founder of FG+SG studio. Originally trained as an architect, he brings a deeply thoughtful, human-centered approach to his work, blending clarity, atmosphere, and subtle narrative in each image. Guerra is celebrated for capturing architecture with precision and poetic sensitivity, often including contextual elements—like passersby or shifting clouds—that enrich the storytelling of each space.
Since establishing FG+SG in 1999 with his brother, Sergio, Fernando has played a pivotal role in showcasing contemporary Portuguese architecture to a global audience. His imagery, featured in leading international publications and embellished with accolades like Canon Ambassador recognition and Photographer of the Year, reflects a balance of technical rigor and emotional depth—capturing both the structural beauty of architecture and the life that surrounds it.
LOCATION: Lisbon, Portugal
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Single family house project in a recent suburban dwelling, mixing concepts of beach, condominium and nature. It is characterized by the implantation of a rectangular volume of a single floor
Laid out over the valley, at an altitude of 1,500 meters, this prefab off-grid house has a strong relationship with the local nature, abundant throughout most of the year.
Carvalhal House is a single family house, composed of two separate rectangular volumes, parallel to each other and to the access road to the West.
The “House of Messines”, is based on an existing building, already in ruins, but with a fantastic orientation East-West, and with a rhythm of openings for light source already very inviting.
The Chiado apartment is located in one of the blocks making up Terraços de Bragança: the set of buildings designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira in Lisbon’s Chiado district
Casa Atrium is located on a rectangular and flat lot, which cuts through the block transversally from one street to the next, in a residential area of São Paulo.
Three elements make up the Hofmann house project. An extruded cover in the longitudinal direction of the ground with a “T” shape is the framework in which space is inhabited. This geometry let us feel the sea,…
The Eco Houses grew from a double conceptual root. On the one hand, ensuring the profitability of Pedras Salgadas Park as a tourist hotel project made the option between rehabilitating the existing hotel or building a new…
The project ” Gama Issa house “, ended in 2001. was retrofitted in 2015 when the finishing, decoration and window frames were changed, and a new lateral volume (a workshop) perpendicular to the pool was added.
