Luís Loureiro

From architect to gallery owner, we learn more about Luís Loureiro’s career.
As usual, the soundtrack was suggested by the guest, based on the music he listens to while working. The choice fell on rock from the 60s and 70s, with a predilection for George Harrison. We also added a pinch of The Rolling Stones.

Luís Castanheira Loureiro holds a master’s degree in Architecture from the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra. Between 2009 and 2016 he worked in Portugal, Lithuania and Switzerland, while also producing some critical work, especially as the correspondent for Portugal and Switzerland for the now defunct A10 New European Architecture (NL).
In 2016, together with Ana Raquel Ruivo, he founded NO-NO Gallery in Lisbon, which he currently runs.

In this series of interviews, we talk to architects who haven’t followed the traditional path of the profession: with one foot in architecture, their professional activity has found fertile ground in other creative fields. We navigate between expectations and archetypes: we try to understand how a background in architecture made an alternative career path possible, how this “transition” took place and where this matrix still manifests itself in their daily activity.
We talk in the workspace of each guest, who also chooses the soundtrack, between the music they listen to while working or simply the music they can’t stop listening to.