Andreia Garcia

Andreia Garcia is an architect, curator, researcher, editor and professor, with a PhD from Lisbon School of Architecture.
She was a professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, in Guimarães, and at the Architectural Association, in London. She is Vice President of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Beira Interior. As Assistant Professor at UBI, Andreia teaches Architectural Design at the 5th year of the MA in Architecture, and focus on this rural region of Portugal which is deeply affected by water scarcity and highly intensive agriculture, fires and desertification - underlining the importance of territorial policies and on the recovery of the ecological corridors, through socio-economic dynamics of co-existence and a more sustainable future.
She is the founder and curator of Galeria de Arquitectura, in Porto, an independent space dedicated to reflection and debate on Architecture, City and Territory.
She is the founder of the Architectural Affairs studio, and her professional work has been distinguished several times, i.e. nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award'22.
She is the Director of the Art(e)Facts Knowledge Biennial, in Fundão, which promotes the co-creation between contemporary artists, architects and designers with artisans from the Beira Interior region, while proposing knowledge alliances between humans and non-humans in order to save the future.
In 2023, Andreia was the curator of the Portuguese representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2023, Fertile Futures. A proposal that commissions young architects, in collaboration with specialists from other fields of knowledge, to present propositional models for a more sustainable, healthy and equitable tomorrow, in non-hierarchical cooperation between disciplines, generations and species, defending the pertinence of Architecture’s contribution to the redesign of a decarbonised, decolonised and collaborative tomorrow.