Miguel Cabral
Senior Architect · Urban Designer · Partner
OA member nbr 7915
Graduated in Architecture in 1998 from the Faculty of Architecture in Porto University (FAUP), Portugal. Erasmus Scholarship at Facoltá di Architettura di Ferrara, Italy, in 1998.
Master Degree in Transportation Design at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Turin, Italy in 2003. Design development of an urban vehicle for public presentation at Geneva Motor Show 2004. Professional internship as Automotive designer at Centro Stile — IDEA3, Turin, Italy in 2003.
Committed to a career as an architect, over more than 20 years and until 2020 he worked at MVCC Arquitectos and oversaw a considerable amount of complex design and implementation projects, both in Portugal and abroad, namely in Asia.
Led cross-functional teams across commercial, industrial, residential, educational, health-care, hotel and urban development sectors, from inception through completion — including collaboration with Balmond Studio (London) on iconic buildings and urban interventions.
In 2021, with Teresa Corujo, he founded URBAN Arquitectura e Planeamento, Lda.
