Rute Morais Peixoto is a licensed OASRN architect from Porto (PT), based in Helsinki (FI).
She has a Master degree from the Faculty of Architecture of Porto (2015), having also studied in the Fakulteta za Arhitekturo in Ljubljana. Her thesis obtained distinction of excellence.
Rute worked with Eduardo Souto de Moura, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Fala Atelier and Eero Lundén. She was a summer school teacher at FAUP in 2012 and currently teaches building design at Aalto University.
Rute's practice is highly focused on the sensorial and perceptive experience. She enjoys working closely with clients and partners to deliver personalized and unique designs.
Her multidisciplinary approach includes building design, interior design, furniture design, illustration and music, having composed and performed songs to be featured in indie video games.
experience
09.22 - present
01.22 - present
06.19 - sabbatical
07.18 - present
06.16 - 06.18
08.15 - 05.16
01.14 - 07.15
02.14 - 03.14
07.12 - 08.12
aalto university, teacher
state artist grantee
lundén architecture company
morais peixoto atelier
fala atelier
aarp
souto moura arquitectos
álvaro siza vieira arquitecto
faculty of architecture of porto, teacher
awards & exhibitions
2022
2021
2017
2017
2015
2014
2013
2001
artist working grant, 3 years
arts promotion centre finland (taike)
artist working grant, 1 year
arts promotion centre finland (taike)
conference “portugal versus the rest of the world”, zagreb (HR)
in dizajn - festival modernog doma
interview “the architecture of live uncertainty”
serralves foundation + são paulo biennial
lecture about master’s thesis for the “scientific session - dissertations of excellence”
science and technology week 2015
collective exhibition “architectural video games”, ljubljana (SI)
dessa gallery, bikofe, university of ljubljana
1st prize “logo for the urbanism department”
with Lovro Jelenko, Monika Šafářová, Ricardo Tomé
faculty of architecture of ljubljana
academic merit scholarship
belmiro de azevedo foundation