He received his professional degrees from the FAULisbon, Politecnico Milano and Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He currently teaches architectural design at Kuwait University and Northeastern University. Ricardo is co-author of the projects “CasaGranturismo” and “Resilient Coastal Environments” for the urban and landscape renewal of Portuguese and Croatian coasts. He has also co-authored a survey of Portuguese contemporary architecture “Habitar Portugal 2006/2009” and two volumes on “Modern Architecture Kuwait.". Ricardo is currently working on a forthcoming publication by Actar on "Pan-Arab Architecture" and developing museum exhibition projects in Tehran and Abu Dhabi.