Nuno Pereira Da Cruz
Nuno Cruz joined Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s competition department in 2013, and has since expanded his reach to the Project Development Department leading a team of 30 architects on some of the firm’s most prominent North American projects. Nuno’s creativity, unrelenting attention to detail, and global sensibility has moved a diverse array of projects forward over the last decade. Prior to joining Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Nuno trained and practiced as an architect in North America, Scandinavia, Asia, and Europe.
As a computational design expert, he has coordinated management, training, and implementation of building information modeling and parametric design in diverse building types and scales. As a building envelope specialist, he has pushed forward design-driven innovation, resiliency, creative solutions, and materiality exploration in a multitude of projects.
Nuno is an active leader in the industry, having been an invited architectural critic at the University of Minneapolis and the University of Maryland for several years.