Andreia Garcia is an architect, curator, editor, researcher and university professor. Her work develops from an architectural practice that expands into interdisciplinary exchange with complementary fields, particularly contemporary art, articulating research with design practice, curatorial work and publishing. Her interests focus on architecture within a context marked by rapid technological advances and an ecological crisis, exploring forms of mediation between territory and its resources. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Professor Manuel Tainha Prize, granted to the best PhD thesis in Architecture of 2014/2015, and was published as a book in 2016 under the title Scenic Space, Architecture and City.
In 2016 she founded the studio Architectural Affairs. As an architect, her work has been selected for the FAD Awards (2018, 2019 and 2020), Dezeen Awards (2019), BigMAT Award (2019), HAUSER Award (2020), and the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award (2022).
She is a professor at the University of Minho, where she teaches in the field of Architecture and directs the PhD programme in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Art and Design. Previously, she served as Vice-President of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Beira Interior, where she taught in the Department of Architecture. Since 2025 she has been a visiting full professor in the Master’s programme in Spatial Design at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She has also served as a visiting assistant professor at the Architectural Association (AA) in London.
In parallel, she has been invited to deliver lectures and teaching sessions at several international institutions, including the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid – Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM), the University of Valladolid (UVa), Escola da Cidade in São Paulo (Brazil), the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania), the School of Architecture in Amman (Jordan), and the University of Georgia, among others.
In 2016 she co-founded Galeria de Arquitectura, an independent space dedicated to critical reflection on Architecture, the City and the Territory, based in Porto. Alongside this, she has developed an independent curatorial practice in both national and international contexts. She curated Smaller Cities (Guimarães European Capital of Culture, 2012), Projecto Memória (Centenary of Theatro Circo, Braga, 2015), Shaping Shape (Architecture Programme of the Maia Contemporary Art Biennial, 2017), Rhythm of Distances: Propositions for the Repetition (Galeria Vertical, 2017), Endless Space: Propositions for the Continuous (Galeria Vertical, 2017), Double Exposure (Roca Gallery, 2019), the Maia Contemporary Art Biennial (2019), Contemporâneos Extemporâneos (Galeria Fernando Santos, 2021), and Anuário (Porto, 2020). She conceived the Maia Architecture Month and curated its first two editions: João Álvaro Rocha (MAM, 2018) and Fast Forward (MAM, 2019). She also conceived and directed the Art(e)Facts Knowledge Biennial in Fundão in 2021.
In 2023 she was the curator of the Official Portuguese Representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, with the project Fertile Futures, dedicated to the scarcity and management of freshwater in the Portuguese territory. In 2025 she curated the exhibition The Future is Now for the Portugal Pavilion at Expo Osaka, and Portugal’s representation at the London Design Biennale with the exhibition Metabolisms of Repair. She is currently preparing the curatorship of the Tirana Architecture Triennale 2027, entitled Architectures of the Invisible.