“We are SUMMARY, a young architectural studio based in the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto, Portugal, founded by Samuel Gonçalves*. Seeking the balance between pragmatism and experimentalism, we aim for solutions that could answer a prominent challenge that the contemporary world places to architecture: how to make the construction act an increasingly summary process?”

*Samuel Gonçalves was born in 1988 (Arouca, Portugal). He graduated in Architecture from Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto in 2012 and spent one year studying at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile under an interchange academic program. He worked for one year with the Chilean studio ELEMENTAL, led by Alejandro Aravena. In 2015 he created his own practice, SUMMARY, and he was finalist for the Portuguese National Prize of Creative Industries. In 2016, he was invited to join the main exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - 15th International Architecture Exhibition “Reporting From the Front”, representing his practice, being the youngest studio in the whole event.