Nuno Grande obtained his degree in Architecture at the University of Porto in 1992 and obtained his PhD, in 2009, at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DARQ/FCTUC), where he teaches as Assistant Professor. His PhD thesis is focused on the relationship between culture, city and architecture, and especially on the role of great cultural facilities within the urban regeneration process.

He has been Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, since 2006, at the Urbanistics course, coordinator, since 2010, of the Curatorial Studies Master Course, at Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra. He is a member of the Culture, Cities and Architecture Department at the Social Studies Centre (CES), University of Coimbra, coordinator of the Cultural Department at the Architectural Order, North Section, (OASRN) and a member of the Portuguese Section of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA).

Nuno was the main curator of the Portuguese Exhibition at the 1st Lisbon Architecture Triennale and at the 7th São Paulo Architecture Biennale, both in 2007.

He writes occasionally for architectural publications published in Portugal (JA, Arq/a), Spain (El Croquis, Arquitectura Viva, 2G), Croatia (Oris), France (L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui), Holland (A10) and Japan (A+U). In 2008 he created,  together with Alexandra Grande, a collective architectural design studio - Pedra Líquida (Liquid Stone) - as a complement of his academic and critical work and as a professional co-authorship platform with other studios.