pravara@baixaatelier.pt
In 1988 he worked at Manuel Graça Dias and João Luís Carrilho da Graça architectural offices in Lisbon.
From 1988 to 1991 he worked under the guidance of Manuel Vicente at his Macao office.
From 1991 and 1993 lived in the United States and pursued his Master of Architecture degree.
He started his own practice in Lisbon in 1993 in partnership with Nuno Vidigal, and has built work in Lisbon, Cascais, Évora, Sesimbra, Cartaxo, Madeira Island and Macao (as designer of MV office).
Has been honoured in various national and international open competitions, namely for the 2002 national Swiss Exposition. His work has been largely published in various national and international magazines and books. He has also contributed to various national and international periodicals. In 2009 with the design project for a School in Mozambique (Africa), he represented Portugal at the São Paulo Biennial Expo, Brazil.
He taught at the Design Institute of Lisbon and currently teaches at the SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LISBON as Professor Auxiliar (tenure track position). From 1998 to 2009 he has been visiting professor at the COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN / University of Minnesota, for its abroad program – PORT CITIES, and for two years he organized and was the local tutor for the Carleton Azrielli School of Architecture abroad program in Lisbon (2006 and 2007). He has published and presented at various conferences on architecture, urbanism and in other scientific conferences.
He was the editor of two books: (1) Study Trip to Le Corbusier and (2) Study Trip to Mediterranean Architecture in Andaluzia, both published with other faculty and students from the School of Architecture of Lisbon, and wrote a theory/history book on the CONSOLIDATION OF A PRACTICE: Industrial Buildings on Reinforced Concrete on the first and second industrial revolution.
Pedro Belo Ravara was the Vice President of the National Board of the Portuguese Chamber of Architects (OA), for the triennium of 2014/2016, has been member of the Executive Board of the same Order (2011/2013) and from 2012 is being representing the OA in the Architects Council of Europe. From January 2016, he is an elected member of the Executive Board of the Architects Council of Europe, being since then the coordinator for the Responsible Architecture thematic area III for the same Council.
He was also a member of the National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development in Portugal between July 2015 and April 2017.