The Técnico alumnus João Santa Rita received the Nuno Teotónio Pereira Award 2022 on January 30th, from the Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana.

The doctoral thesis in Architecture, “Projetar com o Clima em Portugal: entre o Inquérito à Arquitectura Regional Portuguesa e a Revolução de Abril, 1955-1974”, was carried out at Técnico, under the scientific supervision of Professor Ana Tostões.

In this work, Santa Rita used six case studies of single-family houses, built in the 1960s, which represented the various regions of Portugal. Santa Rita’s work concluded that the climate adaptation strategies adopted, mainly in summer, were effective. Thus, it was demonstrated the relevance of those “passive solar strategies for the thermal comfort of dwellings that can be useful to the architectural practice of today”, explained Professor Ana Tostões.