Samuel graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in 2013. In 2015, he founded his own practice, SUMMARY, at UPTEC, the Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto. He is a member of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at FAUP and, in 2024, was a visiting researcher in the Department of Architecture at TU Delft.

In recent years, SUMMARY has developed projects of varying scales and programmes, always with the underlying mission of exploring the potential of modularity, prefabrication, and their tectonic effect in architecture.