Nuno Rosado was born in 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal. He graduated in 2001 from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, having attended one year at the Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Saint-Luc de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium. In 2003, he completed a postgraduate degree in Information Technologies in Architecture at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in Germany. In 2008, he concluded the Design Laboratory Research program at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he obtained a Master of Architecture (MArch) degree in Architecture and Urbanism.

Between 2001 and 2008, he was part of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, contributing to several international projects. Notably, he was involved in the design and construction phases of the Casa da Música in Porto. In 2008, he founded the practice Impromptu Arquitectos. In 2013, the practice evolved through its association with Mese Architects, leading to the creation of ADAPT Arquitetos, a structure he co-founded and currently leads.

Selahattin Tüysüz completed his secondary education at Le Lycée de Saint-Benoît. In 2002, he began his architectural studies at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. In 2004, he undertook an internship in Paris at Dominique Perrault Architecture. In 2005, he attended the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, joining the studio of Peter Cook. In 2006, he worked at CEA in Istanbul as Project Director. He also participated in the Master Class Plastic-Opacity at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, led by Hanif Kara.

In 2008, he obtained his MArch degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, as part of the Design Research Laboratory (DRL) program. In the same year, he joined Zaha Hadid Architects, contributing to several international projects while simultaneously maintaining independent professional practice. In 2011, he founded the practice Mese Architects. In 2013, he co-founded ADAPT Arquitetos.