Graça Correia Ragazzi PT

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Graça Correia Ragazzi, is a Portuguese architect with a degree in architecture from FAUP - Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto from 1989. From that date until 1995, collaborated with the architect Eduardo Souto Moura, with whom subsequently co-authored a number of widely awarded projects. (About this topic Architect Dietmar Feichtinger said that “this experience deeply shaped her architectural approach, particularly in its rigorous engagement with the context, construction and modern heritage”).
She defended doctoral thesis at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC-Barcelona, 2006), supervised by Hélio Pinón (and co-advised by Eduardo Souto Moura), entitled Ruy de Athouguia: Modernity in the Open. Graça Correia is Guest Professor at FAUP where she obtained her National Habilitation in 2022 (with the Agregação degree from the University of Porto), an associate professor at FCATI-ULP. She has been a Visiting Professor, lecturing both in English and Italian, at various national and international universities Lausanne, Grenoble, Dubai, Cesena ou Darmstadt and, at the moment finishing the Summer semester (2026) at the Technische Universität Wien Institut für Architektur und Entwerfen, where she is teaching her own studio as a Guest professor.
Since 2015, Graça Correia is also a visiting professor at the MArch - Postgrado en arquitectura avanzada at the Universidad Europea de Valencia and at MArch China.
She teaches in the PhD Program in Architecture at Universidade Lusófona, - Centro Universitário do Porto, having been Course Director between 2015 and 2018, and one of its founders, as well as being a collaborator at the Centre for Studies in Territories, Environment and Architecture of this University (Terr.A.ID), coordinating the Research Line D: TPC. Design: Theory, Project and Construction and the Research Project: A Forma do Edifício na Forma da Cidade. (Re)desenho e (é) Arquitectura. (Re)desenho e (é) Cidade (The Form of the Building in the Form of the City. design and architecture. design and the city), which is still in the formalization phase.
She is an integrated member of the CEAU-FAUP research groups (as part of the Siza Baroque research panel, a research project of the T2P group, which came first in the FCT competition, the entity that evaluates architectural research in Portugal), as well as Arq.ID., in ULusófona, and I-Form in Barcelona.
Regarding the close relationship between theory and practice, the director of CEAU, at FAUP, Professor José Miguel Rodrigues, says about Graça Correia: “we believe that Professor Graça Correia is one of the most influential professors and architects at the current "School of Porto" – nowadays the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto – and one of the most promising researchers at the Research Center I coordinate (CEAU-FAUP)”.
In 2005 Graça Correia founded CORREIA/RAGAZZI Arquitetos with Roberto Ragazzi and their work has been recognized, awarded, published and exhibited nationally and internationally. The studios work received in the USA the GOLD AWARD at the MIAMI/MIAMI BEACH BIENAL 2007 for the single-family category with the House in Gerês and at S. Francisco The Silver Medal of the SPARKAWARD 2011.
In Europe, the firm was awarded first place in the 3rd ENOR Prize; in Spain, and its projects regularly feature on the shortlists for the FAD Awards. In Berlin, it received the “2016 Best Architects Award”. In 2017, the firm received two of the ten awards presented as part of the National Urban Rehabilitation Prize.
For projects co-authored with Eduardo Souto Moura, they received the PYMECON Renovation Award in 2013 and were shortlisted for the 2012 EUROPA NOSTRA Awards (European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage) as well as the FAD Awards for the conversion of the Robinson Foundation Factory. The Foundation’s Audiovisual Auditorium was a finalist in the 2nd edition of the BigMat International Architecture Award.
CORREIA/RAGAZZI Arquitetos were also considered, as part of CASABELLA's 80th anniversary celebrations, “i più promettenti esponenti della cultura architettonica portoghese, assurta a un ruolo di eccellenza nel panorama internazionale” (the most promising representatives of Portuguese architectural culture, which has risen to prominence on the international stage).
In 2018, the Spanish publisher TC Cuadernos published a monograph of their work: Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectura 2005-2018, confirming the international reach of its design practice, along with the monographic exhibition inaugurated in 2022 that the University of Padua, and that city's Order of Architects, put together with the support of CASABELLA magazine,
Graça Correia is also the author of several books and articles published regularly, and a regular jury member for various architecture awards, including the international jury for the ENOR 2020 Awards and, together with historian Joel Cleto, she curated Open House Porto 2022 invited by Casa da Arquitectura.
Alongside her extensive research, her evident ability to transfer knowledge to the general public stands out as she also co-authored several documentaries on architecture at the invitation of RTP2 (Portuguese television's cultural channel), namely:
"Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia: um Moderno por descobrir" (Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia: an Undiscovered Modern), a documentary celebrating the centenary of the architect Ruy D'Athouguia, born in 1917, and belonging to a generation of modern architects trained in a classical context, but with an avant-garde outlook on contemporary Portuguese architecture. With the original idea by Graça Correia Ragazzi, as well as the research (Nuno Costa Santos, Ricardo Clara Couto, and Graça Correia Ragazzi) and directed by Ricardo Clara Couto, Clara Amarela Filmes.
“O lodo, as estrelas e os sábios” (The mud, the stars and the wise ones) is a documentary that lives between the courage of the modernist adventure of a group of young architects, in the 50s and 60s, in a remote place, and the hard human experience, made up of a lot of effort and sweat, of building it. With an original idea by Graça Correia Ragazzi, as well as the research (Nuno Costa Santos, Francisco Pina Cabral, Ricardo Clara Couto and Graça Correia Ragazzi), and directed by Ricardo Clara Couto, Clara Amarela Filmes.
"Tua dele: a linha da obsessão" / Eduardo Souto Moura (His Tua: the thread of obsession) a documentary about the construction of the Tua dam hydroelectric power station and the obsession and poetic references of the architect who shaped its landscape without transforming it. With an original idea by Graça Correia Ragazzi, as well as the research (Graça Correia Ragazzi, Luís Filipe Borges, Ricardo Clara Couto, Luís Filipe Borges and Luís Hipólito), and directed by Ricardo Clara Couto, Clara Amarela Filmes.
"100 Anos de Bolhão" (100 Years of Bolhão) is the seventh art as a witness to the pains and joys that decades of many projects have inflicted on this iconic building of Porto. The documentary was previewed at the Batalha Centro de Cinema before hitting television screens. With an original idea by Graça Correia Ragazzi, as well as the research (Graça Correia Ragazzi, Luís Filipe Borges, Ricardo Clara Couto and Luís Filipe Borges) and directed by Ricardo Clara Couto, Clara Amarela Filmes.
The Público newspaper (one of Portugal's leading newspapers) will dedicate a monograph on her work in the first Collection of Portuguese Women Architects coordinated by researcher Patrícia Santos Pedrosa, with a text by Carolina Coelho, lecturer and researcher at Darq-FCTUC (currently awaiting printing and distribution).
Graça Correia is an architect and academic, whose work bridges architectural practice, research and teaching. With her research dedicated to the work of Ruy Jervis d’Athouguia, she contributed decisively to the critical reassessment of Portuguese architecture, as well lecturing at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, where she teaches Project IV, or at the various faculties she visits, being placed within the framework of the relationship that is established between the theory and practice of the Project.
Highlighting this relationship, it can be pointed out the invitation that Francesco Dal Co extended to her in 2025 to wright an extensive publication at CASABELLA about Ruy Athouguia, while in the same year he published in another issue of this prestigious magazine a constructed work of her own firm.
In conclusion, her career emphasizes that the construction of knowledge in Architecture is expanded by the research of the architect who designs and teaches, constantly seeking the relevance of a theory of design, and its articulation with practice, as a very stimulating and operative tool in the construction of what is to come.
“Her academic and professional work is marked by a sustained dialogue between theory and practice reflecting a contemporary interpretation of modern architectural principles that continues to inform both her teaching and design work today” (Architect Dietmar Feichtinger).