# Spaceworkers

> Spaceworkers is an internationally awarded architecture and design studio based in Paredes, Portugal, with studios also in Lisbon and Viana do Castelo. Founded in 2007 by Rui Dinis and Henrique Marques, the practice is known for restrained, precise architecture shaped by context, material and use — "the quiet side of exceptional architecture."

## About the studio
- [About](https://spaceworkers.pt/about/): Philosophy, team and history — architecture shaped by context, time and emotion.
- [Process](https://spaceworkers.pt/process/): How the studio reads place, people and programme before the first line is drawn.
- [Contacts](https://spaceworkers.pt/contacts/): Studios in Paredes, Lisbon and Viana do Castelo. Phone +351 255 781 150, info@spaceworkers.pt.

## Work
- [Our Work](https://spaceworkers.pt/our-work/): Full portfolio — houses, public buildings and cultural spaces across Portugal.
- [Pavilion in the Garden](https://spaceworkers.pt/project/pavilion-in-the-garden/): A pavilion in Paredes shaped by purity and simplicity, in dialogue with garden and light. Architecture MasterPrize 2024.
- [Hans Isler Housing Complex](https://spaceworkers.pt/project/hans-isler-housing-complex/): A housing complex in Lousada shaped by urban connections and intentional voids.
- [Sambade House](https://spaceworkers.pt/project/sambade-house/): A raw concrete house in Penafiel set into a terraced rural landscape.
- [Interpretation Centre of Romanesque](https://spaceworkers.pt/project/interpretation-centre-of-romanesque/): A public building in Lousada reinterpreting Romanesque memory through volume, light and materiality.

## Insights
- [Insights](https://spaceworkers.pt/insights/): Studio news, lectures and international awards.
- [Architecture MasterPrize 2025](https://spaceworkers.pt/architecture-masterprize-2025/): Vila do Bispo Museum – Barn of History wins in the Cultural Architecture category.

## Work with the studio
- [Start a Project](https://spaceworkers.pt/start-a-project/): Brief the studio on a new project.
- [Join Us](https://spaceworkers.pt/join-us/): Careers and studio culture.

## Legal
- [Privacy Policy](https://spaceworkers.pt/privacy-policy/)