Jorge Bartolo

Jorge Bartolo was born in Coimbra, Portugal in 1968. He graduated in Architecture from Escola Universitaria das Artes de Coimbra in 1995. He established himself with two designs for a Fire Station and a Nautic Club. In 2000, he started a collaboration with the Saint Gobain Group by designing and renovating industrial buildings exploring new techniques merging the principles of the history of industrial architecture.. He went on with private housing and historical centers building renewal. Further collaborations began in this period with projects for Portuguese Municipal and Port Authorities, Portuguese Civil Protection Authority (SNBPC) and the National Forest Agency (AFN), regarding Urban Planning and strategy, Waterfront Design, and Theme Parks. In 2015 Jorge Bartolo worked on a project for a low budget GYM using light steel frame structure and cork as final outer cladding as a design process. It was followed by using the building method as a set of new building designs for commercial, sportive and housing. In 2018 he sets a series lectures in a Summer Academy at RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts, regarding “container hotel design”. He is a member of Portuguese Architects Association and RETE - Association for Collaboration between Ports and Cities. Jorge Bartolo currently has offices in Figueira da Foz and Porto.