Bernardo Pizarro Miranda
Professor Auxiliar
CIES-Iscte - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology
Department of Architecture and Urbanism (ISTA) Department of Architecture and Urbanism (ISTA)
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217650371 (Ext. 793091)
Office D6.10
Post Box 337
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Academic Management Positions
Position Unit/Area Begin Date End Date
Director Integrated Master Degree in Architecture 2026-07-03 2029-07-02
Presidente Comissão Científica 2025-12-17 2028-12-18
Director Department of Architecture and Urbanism 2025-12-17 2028-12-18
Vice-Reitor Reitoria 2022-03-07 2024-09-30
Vice-Reitor Reitoria 2020-10-14 2022-03-07
Pró-Reitor Reitoria 2018-10-01 2020-10-13
Coordenador do 2º Ano Integrated Master Degree in Architecture 2018-09-01 2018-10-03
Coordenador do 2º Ano Integrated Master Degree in Architecture 2017-09-01 2018-08-31
Coordenador do 2º Ano Integrated Master Degree in Architecture 2016-09-01 2017-08-31
Coordenador do 2º Ano Integrated Master Degree in Architecture 2016-07-29 2016-08-31
Coordenador do 2º Ano Integrated Master Degree in Architecture 2014-09-01 2015-07-16
Professional Associations
Association Period
Association of Architects Since 1988
Awards
Award Description Year
WORK ID: AE26/PT-06 Dear colleagues, It is an honor to have your work Building 4, ISCTE-IUL in Lisboa, Portugal, nominated to the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards 2026. 2026
Valmor and Municipal Architecture Prize 2023: the Iscte – Knowledge and Innovation Building 2023
1º prémio pela proposta apresentada ao III Congresso Internacional de arquitectura Religiosa Contemp 2013
1º prémio no concurso internacional 'Desafios Urbanos': Reabilitação de um conjunto de imóveis local 2012
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
BPM Arquitectura Lda Portugal (Lisboa) Managing partner Since 2005
Grupo Parque Expo Portugal (Lisboa) Architect coordinator 2000 - 2003
Atelier de Arquitectura de Raul Hestnes Ferreira Portugal (Lisboa) Architect 1990 - 1996
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Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Bernardo Miranda, winner of the Valmor Prize, speaks about the importance of architecture without walls. TSF spoke with the winner of the 2023 Valmor Prize, Bernardo Pizarro Miranda. 2025
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Growing and living by questioning – the "healthily transgressive" way Bernardo Pizarro Miranda built churches and was Church. Bernardo Pizarro Miranda describes himself as "healthily transgressive." He learned from life that not all red lights mean to stop and that it was Jesus who first showed that it is important to think above the law. The Jesuit priest António Lopes, from whom he learned at home how to celebrate the liturgy and to have a place in the homily, was as important in his growth as Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, to whom he returns, whether to find the "wisdom of the oak" or the "scent of flowers," or to recall moments of reading to his children, or to confirm to them that beauty "is the first condition of being human." The architect, for whom the doctoral thesis is titled "Liturgy and Architecture." Thinking about a place for the liturgy: ‘aggiornamento’ as a program?”, which he authored, was a very difficult project, pointing towards the construction of a ‘field hospital church’ made with “uncomfortable” elements, that celebrates names, faces and belongings, and invites beauty, “the first 2024
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Architect Bernardo Pizarro Miranda - National Conference on Pastoral Care for Culture 2024 The relationship between Church and Architecture is the starting point for the 18th National Conference on Pastoral Culture, which, on Saturday, September 14th, will discuss in Fátima the theme "Building God's House in the Earthly City Today". Organized by the National Secretariat for Pastoral Culture, the meeting aims to bring together, over a day of work, specialists such as Álvaro Siza Vieira, to, according to the organizers, "discern the motivations and intentions, achievements and shortcomings of contemporary religious architecture in the current context of the pragmatics of the arts". In addition to the architect Siza Vieira, the panel of participants includes university professors such as Bernardo Pizarro Miranda, Joana Brites, and João Luís Marques, as well as Marco Daniel Duarte, PhD in Art History and director of the Department of Studies at the Sanctuary of Fátima. The Pastoral Culture Conference, which will take place at Domus Carmeli, near the Sanctuary of Fatima, will 2024
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Interviews on the 50th anniversary of Iscte - Bernardo Pizarro Miranda Interview with Bernardo Pizarro Miranda, lecturer, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Iscte. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Building 1 - ISCTE and the city Video of Building 1, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Alexandra Saraiva, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources INDEG Building - ISCTE and the city Video of the INDEG Building, made for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE, in co-authorship with Alexandra Saraiva, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Ala Autónoma building - ISCTE and the city Video of the Autonomous Wing, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Bernardo Miranda, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Raúl Hestnes Ferreira - ISCTE and the city Video about Raúl Hestnes Ferreira, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Alexandra Saraiva, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022
Digital Materials or Audiovisual Resources Building 2 - ISCTE and the city Video of Building 2 , ISCTE II/ICS, made for the celebrations of 50 years of ISCTE, co-authored with Alexandra Saraiva, edited by Ana Rita Mateus, from the communication office of ISCTE. Available on the commemorative page of the 50th anniversary of ISCTE. 2022