amag-pt 07: Nuno Melo Sousa is a monographic issue devoted entirely to the Portuguese architect whose practice centres on the sensory and emotional dimensions of built space — how light, shadow, and bare materials shape experience across a working day.
About This Book
Working from northern Portugal, Nuno Melo Sousa builds spaces that resist neutrality. His architecture is defined by a deliberate material honesty — surfaces left exposed, textures exploited for their tactile and expressive potential — and by an attentiveness to light that means no two moments in a room are quite alike. This issue of amag-pt gathers his projects across Portugal and Brazil into a single sustained document, making visible the consistent logic beneath work that engages the senses as readily as it satisfies a programme. For practitioners interested in phenomenological approaches to architecture and the relationship between materiality and atmosphere, this is a focused and instructive volume.
Key Features
- 112 pages of project photography, drawings, and architectural documentation across Portugal and Brazil
- Published by AMAG, ISBN 9789893561720
What You'll Discover
- How Sousa deploys bare, unfinished materials not as aesthetic shorthand but as a means of producing tactile engagement and spatial honesty
- The role of natural light as a dynamic element — shifting through the day to produce distinct sensory conditions within a single space
- The relationship between rigorous formal thinking and emotional resonance in built work across two distinct geographic and cultural contexts
- A coherent design philosophy distilled across a range of project types, revealing the consistency of Sousa's approach to form, light, and material
About the Author
Nuno Melo Sousa is an architect who lives and works in northern Portugal. His practice spans projects in Portugal and Brazil, unified by an approach that treats material selection, texture, and the choreography of light and shadow as the primary instruments of architectural meaning.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 112
- Dimensions: 24 x 32 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789893561720
- Publisher: AMAG
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and students drawn to phenomenological and materiality-led practice, interior designers working with texture and light, and researchers studying contemporary Iberian and Luso-Brazilian architecture.