Recommendation letter I’m honored to inform you that the applicant Ema Castro Alves was my student in the subject “Projecto 4” during the academic year of 2008/2009 in “Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto” (FAUP), Portugal. Besides her humans skills, she proved to be remarkably efficient, adding a great amount of accuracy, sensitivity, effort and persistence in her developed work. Therefore, I’m strongly legitimated to affirm that she fulfills all the required skills to be successful at any work she challenges herself to accomplish. Accordingly, without hesitation, I recommend her acceptance. Porto, 13th of January 2012

Nuno Brandão Costa (Architect, assistant teacher in “Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP)” - Portugal, invited teacher in “Escuela Superior Técnica de Arquitectura da Universidade de Navarra” - Spain)