a.s* - atelier de santos, arquitectura is an architect office founded in 1997. (Lisbon, Portugal)
Amongst projects and works of its authorship stand out, Azores University's Library, selected for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe and FAD Awards, both in 2004; the Museum of Ribeira Grande , or Student's Residences of Laranjeiras - awarded the Special Prize of FAD Members in 2007 and appointed to the Secil Prize in 2008; the Luís de Freitas Branco High School - nominate to EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2017.
It's work has been the subject of several conferences, publications and exhibitions, national and international, where it stands out the participation in the IX Biennale of Architecture in Venice, the IV Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture in Lima (Peru) or the Exhibition Tracing Portugal in Architectural Association in London, also exhibited in the Cornell University College of Art and Architecture in New York, and at the Institut d'Art Contemporánea in Valencia.