PROFILE

ReD is a Research and Design Office in Architecture and Digital Technology established as a company in 2007 by architects Marta Male-Alemany and José Pedro Sousa , after 3 years of intensive collaboration. Operating internationally from Barcelona and Porto, ReD merges research and design endeavors both in academic and professional practice. Specialized in the implementation of advanced digital CAD/CAE/CAM technologies in architecture, ReD is committed to explore the new design possibilities that emerge from the cultural and technological context of today’s digital era.
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mission
With this agenda, ReD considers each design project as an opportunity for unique and customized architectural solutions, responding to economic, environmental, symbolic and functional goals. Free from standard modes of design and production, ReD’s projects are characterized by their innovative and unique aesthetic, spatial, structural and material qualities, which have been recognized in many international publications, conferences, exhibitions and distinctions. Without refusing the value of speculative digital explorations, the studio is deeply involved in the physical manifestation of its designs and technological investigations. This concern distinguishes ReD from many other emerging digital practices, and makes it a previleged partner to entail professional and industrial collaborations. Using extensivelly electronic communication, ReD is an open architectural practice that has the ability to organize multidisciplinary teams of specialists to face any design challenge, in any part of the world.
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work
With built projects in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria and USA, ReD works are regularly presented in international conferences, exhibitions and publications. Recent projects include the “Habitar Portugal 03-05” exhibition design for the 2006 Venice Architectural Biennale (invited by the Ordem dos Arquitectos Portugueses and the Instituto das Artes), a design consultancy for the catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, for the scenography of their new show called “Imperium”, and the exhibition design “Urban Implosions - Horror Vacui” for the 2007 Lisbon Architecture Triennale (invited by the NAi / Netherlands Architecture Institute).
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recognition
In 2006 ReD won the international digital architecture award FEIDAD 2005, and the ephemeral architecture award OutrosMercadus. In 2007 ReD was distinguished with a NEOTEC grant to develop an entrepreneurial project with a technological base with the support of the portuguese Agência da Inovação.
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