Nuno Tavares da Costa (Lisbon, 1975) is an architect, professor and researcher. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (FA-UTL, 1999) and holds a PhD in Architecture from ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2020). His thesis, on consciousness and language in the work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, was developed from the study of the new Museu Nacional dos Coches (National Carriages Museum), a project he coordinated and followed between 2009 and 2017. He is currently Assistant Professor at ISCTE, where he coordinates the scientific area of Architectural Technologies, and an Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET. His research interests centre on architecture as a critical process, between consciousness and language, seeking to reconcile the technical and aesthetic dimensions.

Since its foundation in 2002, he has also been a Project Coordinator at atelier Bak Gordon Arquitectos. Over more than two decades of professional practice, he has coordinated and designed more than fifty projects and buildings in housing, education and public facilities. The work developed with the practice has been published and recognised at national and international levels.