Miguel Góis, a former student at FCTUC’s Department of Architecture, received the “Archiprix 2024 Award” (ex-aequo) / “National Award for the Teaching of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture” on Saturday, 24th June, in Porto Brandão (Almada), with the project “Identity and Atmospheres - Design of the Santa Cruz Monastery Museum”, corresponding to his Master’s Thesis in Architecture, defended in 2023, supervised by the architect professor João Mendes Ribeiro and co-supervised by the architect professor Rui Lobo. This Master’s thesis was also carried out as part of the SANTACRUZ Project (FCT 30704), based at CES-UC.

The project by architect Miguel Góis develops a proposal for the installation of a museum for the estate of the former Monastery of Santa Cruz based on the UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape concept (2011) and the idea of rehabilitating the former monastic buildings and surrounding buildings (such as the former CTT building), re-formalising the former Manga Cloister (around the Renaissance fountain by João de Ruão) and rebuilding a vertical reference element on the site of the former bell tower (demolished in 1935).



 

The Archiprix Prize, or National Prize for the Teaching of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, began in Portugal in 2012 and aims to honour the best Master’s degrees in Architecture from all Portuguese faculties.