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The House of Music ("Casa da Música" in portuguese) is the main concert hall of Oporto (Portugal). It was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, as part of the event Oporto European Capital of Culture in 2001. Revealing all their proficiency and ingenuity in the operated metamorphosis, Rem presented a House of Music that reflects a statement of style, an aesthetic convention, an unmistakable author mark. The building was only completed in 2005, immediately becoming an icon of the city.
The building has brought new challenges to engineering in order to achieve its unique geometric shape. Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic of the New York Times ranked the House of Music as "the most attractive project that the architect has ever built" and as "a building whose intellectual ardor is matched by its sensual beauty." He said "Looking at just the building's original appearance, it turns out that this is one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years".

About author:

José Carlos Costa was born in 12.08.1978 in Braga (Portugal). Being the youngest of a family of 11 brothers, “superfluous” expenses were obviously left behind and, therefore his first priority was to invest in academic training. Despite the long passion for photography, his first camera (a compact) was only acquired at age 20 with the scholarship savings. Despite its obvious limitations this served to irreversibly increase his addiction for photography. In 2009, after finishing his PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, he acquired his first Canon DSLR that allowed him to broaden horizons. Currently the photography occupies almost all his free time, searching for developing his technical and above all his creative aspects. In constant quest for his own style, nature photography, mostly involving his favourite element, water, and long exposure techniques are the base of his work.

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