Jose Luis de Ancêde Aroso Marques was born in Porto, May 12, 1986. He attended a professional art school (Escola artística e profissional Árvore, EAPA) between 2002 and 2005. Graduated in 2005 as architect assistant, he scores 20 in the final test of technical-constructive nature and finishes with an average of 15,7 score. In 2007, after a few months living in Holland, joins the University of Arts (Escola superior artística do Porto, ESAP) with the intention to study architecture, until this moment. In this period of learning, Luis Ancêde conducted academic projects as planning of public space, single-family housing, bi-familiar housing, collective housing, ribbon-housing and public architecture.