João Soares is an architect graduated from the Porto Faculty of Architecture (1998), João Soares holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the Istituto Universitario di Venezia.
He is Tenure Associate Professor at Évora University (where he teaches since 2004), and Director of the PhD Program in Architecture at that institution.
He coordinates the Architecture Research Line of the Centre for Art History and Artistic Research at Évora University.

He has curated, with M. d’Alfonso, A. Madureira and A. Tavares the exhibition Disegnare nelle Città, commissioned by Álvaro Siza with photographs by the Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico (shown in São Paulo, Milan, Naples, and Porto between 2003 and 2006).

He was the Scientific Coordinator of the first two editions of the International Seminar Time in Architecture Évora Univ. (2009 and 2010).
He translates architecture books and essays (Franco la Cecla’s Against Architecture - ed. Caleidoscópio, 2011).

From the work with photographers and architects has long produced a reflection on the relevance of a peripatetic approach on the making and thinking of architecture and territory - reflection that has been systematized on essays.