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18-01-2026
Very honoured to be the winner of the 2025 DigitalFUTURES Portuguese Award. Online presentation.
Chair amd moderation: Agelica Ponzio (Rio De janeiro); Daniel Silva (Lisbon); Maria Mahmoud (Miami)
This prestigious award recognises an exceptional architect, designer or researcher from a Portuguese speaking country who has made significant, innovative, and impactful contributions to architecture, design and research.

 
12-12-2025
Y2 End-of-term project reviews in Bio-ID, London UK. 
Critics: Brenda Parker, Anete Salmane, Marcos Cruz
Students: Emily Salvi, Erfan Abu-Mukh, Afshan Tanweer, Polina Papazova, Ann Samuel Ann, Ananya Baruah, Lucas McCarron, Clara Schmelter de Escobar, Chloe Helene Perez, Zere Mamadil, Abdalaziz Alradi, Demetri Stratigos, Pin-Hsi Sun, Juana Valentina Corredor Rodriguez, Jessica Lelah, Qiang Hao, Caelen Parsons, Lyan Junpeng

Table with samples, prototypes, bioreactors and testing devices 
Photo credits: Marcos Cruz


03-11-2025
Workshop and Cal-Char wall construction at DigitalFUTURES conference awarded Best Ecological Contribution at the 10th Cross-Strait Youth Maker Competition, Shanghai 2025.
Coompetition jury:Nic Dingwen Bao (RMIT University); Chao Yan (Tongji University); Kostas Grigoriadis (Bartlett UCL); Doris Sung (Univerity of Southern California); Tiffany Cheng (Cornell University) 



28-09-2025
Opening of the Building with the Blue Biomass exhibition at the Arup gallery, London UK.
Curators: Marcos Cruz, Brenda Parker with Emily Walport and Claudia Palcova
Exhibitors: Paul Nicholas, Metter Ramsgard Thomsen, Nadja Gaudilliere-Jami (CITA / KADK); Tim Schork, Muge F L A Teixeira (QUT); Anders Egede Daugaard (DUT); Ben Hankamer, Frederico F L A Teixeira (UQ); Lasse Lind (3XN); Peter Vangsbo (Arup Copenhagen); Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz, Parntar Tamuli, Ella Heatherington; Rita Morais (Bio-ID / UCL)
Speakers: Mark Maslin (UCL); Jane Withers (Jane Withers Studio); Ed Clarke (Arup); Paul Nicholas (Building with the Blue Biomass - PI)
 
Arup team with exhibition participants Nadja Gudillière-Jami, Anders Daugaard, Marcos Cruz, Brenda Parker, Ben Hankamer, Peter Vangsbo, Paul Nicholas

Speakers: Mark Maslin, Paul Nicholas, Ed Clarke, Jane Withers, Peter Vangsbo
Photo credits: Rita Morais


06-07-2025
Keynote lecture Designs for the Biocene at DigitalFUTURES conference at CAUP/Tongji University, Shanghai PRChina.
Keynote speakers: Achim Menges (ICD/University of Stuttgart); Kostas Grigoriadis (Bartlett/UCL); Hernan Diaz Alonso (SciArc); Shajay Booshan (ZHA/AADRL); Weixin Huang (Tsinghua University); Weiguo Xu (Tsinghua University); Norman Hack (TU Braunschweig); Gangyi Tan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology); Hank Haeusler (Arch_Manu/UNSW Sydney); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett/UCL)
Host: Philip Yuan

Experimental prototype: Cal-Char wall
Photo credits: Wanda Yu-Ying Hu
Philip Yuan and Marcos Cruz
 Students with Jingyuan Meng at the production site 
Photo credits: Jingyuan Meng
 
 
01-07-2025
Final project reviews of the C-Biom.A group at IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Critics: Martyn Dade-Robertson, Amparo Monfort, Areti Markopoulou, Estefania Mejia, Nuria Conde Pueyo, Fiona Demeur, Ricardo Mayor, Marcos Cruz
Students: Thipnatcha Trivatevorakul, Vivek Venkateshappa, Devanshi Jagota, Govind Chitrath, Aayushi Vasnik, Delia Maguire
 
Photo credits: Marcos Cruz
 
 
17/18-06-2025
External Examiner of the undergradute programme at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Programme Director: Margaret Mulcahy


28-02-2025
External Examiner at the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL), London UK.
Programme Director: Theodore Spyropoulous
Studio Leaders: Patrick Schumacher (founder); Shajay Bhooshan; Pierandrea Angius; Theodore Spyropoulous
Examiners: Winka Dubbeldam; Marcos Cruz