Menos é Mais Arquitectos is an office created in Porto by Francisco Vieira de Campos (Porto) and Cristina Guedes (Macau) in 1994. The ability to do more with less is their motto, seek to balance the "economy" of means with the "wealth" in the materiality and emotional involvement of the users. His works are a pragmatic response to specific contexts. These principles are visible from the first works to the Recovery Project of Quinta do Vallado; and in the Archipelago Centro de Artes Contemporânea, on the island of São Miguel in Azores (a co-authoring Menos é Mais with JMR).
CG teaches in USI - Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and FAAULP.
FVC teaches at FAUP and Navarra University, in Pamplona.
They were invited to national and international conferences, juries, exhibitions and critics in various faculties as ETH Zurich, TU Wien at the Polytechnic of Lausanne, among others.
Most recently they were awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects becoming International RIBA Fellows. They wan the BIGMAT'17 restauration international Architecture Award and TEKTÓNICA 2017 prize. They received the most prestigious award from the Iberian Peninsula, the FAD Prize in Barcelona and the BIAU award in São Paulo. They were also shortlisted of the RIBA International Prize and the Mies van der Rohe Prize.