You definitely need to have a rigorous mind because precision is very important. But you also need to be sensitive to aesthetics. Everything around me needs to be beautiful – the workshop, even the pen I use needs to be beautiful. Only then I can work.

It is crucial and one of my key assets because I am always a step ahead in terms of innovation. I experiment with different materials. I also invest in machines, but they are old machines that I restore and use according to my needs.

I am really self-taught. However, my first employer in Switzerland taught me rigour. Then my architect friend Antonio Portugal, no longer with us, helped me sharpen my aesthetic eye in the early days by showing me around buildings in Porto.

Well, they are all unique with a focus on details and aesthetic beauty. I am happy to see my models in an artistic environment like they were in the Physics of Portuguese Heritage/ Architecture and Memory exhibition presented at Lisbon’s Popular Art Museum.