Steel Talks are a series of conferences promoted under the project Portugal Steel, registered trademark of CMM, and are directed to all the actors and professionals of the sector, in a broad view of the same. Steel Talks respond to the fundamentals of the Portugal Steel brand, which is based on the promotion and dissemination of the potential of steel construction and the future of the design and manufacture of steel structures, and this event clearly takes on the special theme of architecture and construction Sought to discuss issues such as the potentialities and contribution of steel construction to modern architecture, and how the cities of the future could be outlined in this model.

Manuel Aires Mateus was born in Lisbon in 1963 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture /U.T.L. In 1986. He began collaborating with Gonçalo Byrne in 1983 and began developing projects with his brother Francisco in 1988. Aires Mateus was at that time made up of the two brothers, despite occupying a space inside the studio of the Architect Gonçalo Byrne. The growing scale of projects has enabled them to establish an autonomous space to respond to work requests. Since that time the size and quantity of work has been prolific resulting in several national and international architecture awards. The visibility of their work made them invited to lecture and teach in various institutions. Among them are the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, the Accademia de Arquitectura de Mendrisio and others in Portugal. The structure currently covers two offices, both in Lisbon, having established several partnerships with local workshops for international projects.