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BIOGRAPHY

Master in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (MIARQ-FAUP, 2012), with the dissertation entitled “A place for Dance” - within the scope of the relationship between Architecture, Scenography and Dance.

Between 2013 and 2014, she did an internship under the guidance of the architect João Mendes Ribeiro.

From 2014 to 2019, she worked at the office CPrata Arquitectos, in Porto.

Over the years she has developed her own architectural practice.

At the same time, she develops her activity as a painter, having participated in several individual and collective exhibitions. She is represented in the Manuel Cargaleiro Foundation’s Collection.

She works, as a teacher and in choreographic creation projects, with Companhia Instável and with Escola de Dança Ginasiano, where she trained as a dancer.

In 2020 she begins her studies at the PhD Program in Architecture at FAUP. She is currently developing her research on the artistic practice as part of an architectural creative process.

She is a researcher at the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), belonging to the Theory and Design Practices research group (T2P).

Photograph by João Cutileiro
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