Andreia Garcia is an architect, curator, researcher, editor and professor with a PhD from the Lisbon School of Architecture.
She is the founder of the Architectural Affairs studio and Director of the Art(e)Facts Knowledge Biennial, in Fundão, which promotes 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. Her studio work has been distinguished several times and nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award (2022).
In 2023, Andreia was the curator of the Portuguese representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2023, Fertile Futures. This involved a proposal that commissioned young architects in collaboration with specialists from other fields of knowledge to present 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.