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CURRICULUM VITAE - Mário Guedes de Sampaio, Architect (mgs) Registered Architect - Ordem dos Arquitectos Portugueses associate member - American Institute of Architects Avenida Pio XII 94 P-11C 28036 Madrid ES www.mario-sampaio.blogspot.com mariosampaio108@gmail.com Born in Lisboa 1959, graduated estoril german elementary school, graduated high school Escola Salesiana Estoril, 1976 1982 graduated ‘cum laude’ Bsc Architecture, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westburry, N.Y. Recipient of tuition grants for academic achievement, Dean’s and President’s lists for top class academic standings Recipient of an AIA `special honor` award for a junior year academic planning/architectural design ´Waters Edge´ competition (LILCO) During the junior and senior years at College, (worked in association with a teacher and together) designed over eighteen single family residences in NY, most of which were built, published (NYTimes), and some awarded for design excellence Other interests: history, astronomy, music, photography, travelling, gastronomy sailing and contemplation - Robert A.M. Stern Architects, New York, N.Y. – Assistant Project Architect - 1982/83 Design Development of Residential, Institutional and Commercial projects including design competitions@fast-tracking pace Built my first self sufficient beach resort house on an island (100m2) - Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA), Estoril, Lisbon. – Technical Director - 1983/86 Master Plan conception, development, execution and implementation, including FIA techspecs/technical facilities and infra-structures, operational zoning/credential system, paddock area lay-out, access roads and walkways, pedestrian circulation/access to grandstands, public/commercial services and sanitary facilities; vehicular/public transport/access to parking lots. chief security officer at F1 Portugal GP (Estoril) and Brasil F1 GP (Rio de Janeiro) - Ziegler Kirven Parrish Architects (ZKPA), Los Angeles, CA. – Project Architect - 1984/88 U.S. Marine Corps Naval Base in Twenty Nine Palms, California. Project comprising several new buildings budgeted at over US$ 12 million, including ’clean rooms,’ ‘radio frequency shielding,’ ammunitions bunkers and other high-tech sophisticated and complex infrastructures Implementation of the ‘Ready-Check’ system to control/coordinate and assure compatibility of A&E projects - Anthony Machado Designer/Erika Brunson Interiors (AM/EB), Los Angeles, CA. – Project Architect - 1987/88 HRH Saud bin Faisal Rhyiad Palace S.A. – Construction Documents and Project Construction Manual for the new Palace Interiors Project Int´l Tender Package - Atlantic Company Turismo e Urbanizaçäo (ACTUSA), S.A. Lisbon. – Technical Director - 1988/92 Conception, development, coordination and execution of a large scale touristic and residential development project for 18,000 beds at ‘Herdade da Comporta’, a 2500 acre estate located an hour south of Lisbon, owned by the Espírito Santo Group (GES). The property is a young pine forest sitting on a soft rolling primary/secondary sand dune with a one mile beach front. Multi-disciplinary team leader and technical supervisor and coordinator; legal approvals/permits in record time. - Founding Partner of MGS in Lisbon. – 1990/2010 MGS Architects was a small architectural design office; the practice designed over two hundred and fifty projects ranging from large scale industrial and pharmaceutical laboratories (approved by the FDA), with ‘low tech’ and passive solar and natural lighting design solutions; to large scale multi use projects, and housing, supermarkets, restaurants and sport and fitness facilities; to single family residences; located in Europe, Asia and North America. In the past, MGS has also been responsible for the design of five major facilities for the practice at all levels of competition sailing; this has brought to the practice solid knowledge of Yacht Club design and successfull management implementation systems. Since 2010, the office is online wherever we happen to be, not anymore at a specific physical location. This allows total freedom and flexibility to respond to our clients’ needs and the projects’ requirements. Working in distinct geographic locations cultures and procedures has enriched our ´glocal` capacity Introduction to MGS Architects The office consists of three groups: design, presentation and production, linked, coordinated and delivered via the web In Portugal MGS has been responsible, on several residencial projects, for project management, administration and construction, to ensure high quality standards, and a full implementation of, and compliance to, the design. This has included architecture, engineering, feng shui, interior design and decoration and also landscaping, exterior pools and garden design. The result has been translated into more value to the client, for considerably lower costs; total transparency, and efficient end result. The process consists of listening attentively to our clients’ requirements, adding value through sound design implementation excellent design adds substantial quality of life to people and our experience is that it doesn´t necessarily have to cost more (mgs) - Senior Executive International Consultant – WCL London 2011/2019 World Class Learning´s k-12 academic syllabus is a global reference and leading science based curriculum distributed in c. fifteen hundred institutions around the globe. The group also owned/managed c. one hundred schools globally; the position consisted of a myriad of activities ranging from heavy traveling schedules being present as ´inhouse school building doctor´ (compliance with osha regulations etc) to negotiating amiccable solutions to continuing problems related to construction/legal issues, to the maintenance expansion and conception of additions and new buildings for k-12 schools; in north america europe middle and far east (The k-12 school designed for Benihajer in Doha Qatar is presented on the blog above); to the contact/negotiation of new acquisitions of old/credible schools located globally ranging (at the time) from lisbon to hong kong and south and north america nzl/australia

18 May 2023

 this agricultural farm produces hundreds of tons of fruit every year

we were asked to desing the masterplan main house stables and farm buildings






7 Sept 2022

 2018 - preliminary study - reuse of an industrial building into residential/comercial court-yard





 2020 - multi-use 5 level urban residential building






 1993 - earth sheltered/passive solar single family house