Pedro Namorado Borges (Lisbon, 1983) is a researcher and an architect (FAUTL, 2007). As an architect, his projects developed in Portugal, for rehabilitation and new construction, focus on addressing issues related to daily life, especially in the field of private housing, hotels and public-school education buildings. His interests include the constant questioning of the role of architecture and architect, as a physical definition of a concrete reality of the future of human habitat, with a permanent dialogue between the time of a project development and its application, the history of architecture and the various actors involved in the process, facing each project as an opportunity for research as a practice of a profession. He defends the fundamental role of research in theory and history of architecture as an essential tool in the development and design of the future sustainable built environment, an attitude that has been sedimented along its path. In this sense, he visited UCBerkeley (2022) as a researcher, interned as a researcher at the UTokyo (2007), and a visiting student at the TUBerlin (2005), participated in several workshops and theoretical-practical courses, obtained a postgraduate degree in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at ISCTE-IUL (2013), published a book with a survey of the sets housing project by Architect Vítor Figueiredo (2015), and was a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in the project “Housing. One Hundred Years of Public Policies in Portugal. 1918-2018” (2018), promoted by the Institute for Urban Rehabilitation and Housing/Portugal. Those concerns continue to be present in the the Master's Dissertation, “On Discourse and Social Housing Projects by Vítor Figueiredo in the 60s and 80s of the 20th century” (2019). Now, working in a PhD, finds himself deepening that knowledge to be presented in the project, “Reinventions of Popular Architecture. ‘Aldeias Melhoradas’ in Portugal (1958-1974)”, at ISCTE-IUL. He seeks to cultivate, in a solid way, the issue of sustainability through the constant deepening of knowledge of human geography.