Nuno Almeida
Principal/Director
Nuno Almeida is a European registered architect with over 25 years of international experience. Following experiences in Barcelona, Berlin, and Porto, he worked at UNStudio (Amsterdam) from 1999 to 2014, where he became Associate Director / Senior Architect. In 2015, he returned to Portugal, where he founded OOAU.
In 25 years of practice, Nuno Almeida has amassed extensive experience in leading large-scale international designs of high complexity (not only for their geometrical and design intricacy, but also for their political and strategic sensitivity). He leads large design teams on all phases of the design process and successfully managed bids, approvals, and construction of many designs in different regulatory frameworks such as Singapore, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Brazil and in several European Countries such as the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and his native Portugal.
He plays an active role in both the design creation, optimization, and buildability, and in the management of large multidisciplinary teams and the different stakeholders involved. Besides his involvement in the design, he also manages the contractual, commercial, and financial aspects of the projects.
Besides his design experience, Nuno Almeida has lectured and taught at several universities and congresses, on architecture and urban design, on design parametrization, and consults organizations on how to improve and streamline their decision and work processes and on knowledge sharing methodologies.