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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This monolithic home is located on a piece of land in Ourém, characterized by its rectangular configuration, with a descending slope in the south direction (next to the public road). The difference in height between the highest…
House H is located in an affluent area in Madrid. The house has a floor area of 14,000 sq. ft. (1,300 sq. m.) and is the answer to the broad and diverse functional needs of the client,…
Having as a starting point a shoe store built in the late 90’s, this new commercial space -which targets a very specific (and demanding) market with a wide range of products- required a project designed to have…
The Green House is 36 sqm apartment in Porto designed by URBAstudios, a studio founded by Portuguese architect Nuno Alves de Carvalho. The project is located in a XIXth century building in the historical centre of the city…
The Alves da Veiga project aimed to reconvert an old typography built in the nineteenth century and abandoned for decades in a set of six apartments, maintaining all the structure and spatial concept of preexistence. The original building,…
The Rua da Boavista House project had as objective the conversion of the nineteenth century buildings into 10 apartments, keeping the entire structure and construction principles of the old building. The house is located in Porto, Portugal,
Caminha Refurbishment is a renovation project of an 40 sqm apartment in Caminha, Portugal. This charming small apartment was completed in 2016 by Tiago do Vale Arquitectos.
Recent winner in the American Architecture Prize, the Three Cusps Chalet is a very peculiar building, documenting this region’s history and diaspora, and combining typical 19th century Portuguese architecture and urban design with an unexpected alpine influence.
The city center has recently taken a radical change both socially, culturally and economically which has consequently attracted an influx of tourism. The converted apartment house is named after the street in which it is situated and…
