Carlos Mourão Pereira was born in Lisbon in 1970. He graduated in architecture from the University of Lisbon (FA-UL 1997) and obtained his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Lisbon (IST-UL 2013). He was distinguished with the prizes Comendador Joaquim Matias (1997) and FNSE (2014). He worked from 1991 to 2005 in architecture offices in Lisbon, with Aires Mateus, Carrilho da Graça, Costa Cabral and Gonçalo Byrne, in Zurich, with Toni Geser, and in Genoa, with Renzo Piano.
His architectural practice as an author started in 1998 and is centered on multi-sensoriality. He taught Design Studio in Architecture courses at the University of Lisbon (IST-UL 2003-2008) and the University of Beira Interior (2005-2006), in Portugal, and also in workshops at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAV 2010), in Spain, at the National School of Architecture in Montpellier (ENSAM 2011), in France, and Trakya University (2016), in Turkey.
In 2006, he became blind and maintains his architectural activity in research, teaching, and professional practice. His work has been presented internationally in conferences, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2007 and 2009), at the World Exhibition in Zaragoza (2008), at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London, 2018), and also international exhibitions at the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre in Budapest (2008), and at the Borges Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires (2014).
Currently, he is developing research in architecture with Teresa Heitor and Ann Heylighen at CiTUA-IST (University of Lisbon) and at the group Research[x]Design (University of Leuven).