“The collaboration between Manuel Graça Dias and Egas José Vieira begins in 1990, with the creation of the Contemporânea studio, is clearly marked by the project for the Portugal´s Pavilion at Expo'92 in Seville.
They are the authors of a prolific set of projects, diverse in scale, typology and language and distributed throughout the national territory in an unlikely Lisbon / Chaves axis.
Each project is a new project, without the repetition of formulas or successes, in a particularly poetic vision of making a city. ”

João Cruz in: Portuguese Architects