Francisco Braga

I am an artist, architect and drawing teacher whose practice expands across an interdisciplinary field of references. I hold a master’s degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, where all members of our team also studied, both of the other members working as practicing architects. Alongside architecture, my background has been rooted in the arts, - from studying Fine Arts in Porto to developing a personal practice that includes painting, drawing, tattooing, photography, video, and music.

During my exchange program in Norway, I worked with Oslo Architecture Triennale and also began teaching drawing workshops with the National Museum of Norway, a project that continues today and marked the beginning of my interest in co-participatory artistic processes. I now lead the creative direction of our emerging art and architecture collective (CAALM), where we develop site-specific projects at the intersection of community, territory, and material memory. One of our current works 'do Mar' translates local drawings into ceramic wall pieces along the Portuguese coast, involving municipalities and their communities in the creation of lasting poetic art-installations.

My master’s thesis Light Shadows of Serenity received the highest distinction and was nominated among the finalists for the Archiprix Best Portuguese Architecture Thesis of 2025, and it became a starting point for other aforementioned projects such as the 'Câmara Serena'.

My main interests lie in practices such as being in nature, reading, biking, listening to full-albums as well as appreciating the act of not doing anything. I am currently based in Copenhagen, working independently as a freelance artist and tattooist, while traveling both to Oslo and Porto according to the project's needs.
I seek to continue expanding my interdisciplinary practice and network across borders, even more so when applied for the betterment of the common-good.