Bárbara Silva
Bárbara Silva
Associate Members
Collaborator of the Architectural Studies Group | ArchMedium Cluster
0000-0002-6753-0925
Bárbara Silva (Coimbra, 1977) is an architect, graduated from the University of Coimbra (2003). She holds a PhD in Theory and Practice of Design from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2016). Currently, after living for some time in Madrid, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, she resides in Lisbon, where she develops work that combines teaching, curating, and publishing.
In 2010, she founded the NOTE Architecture Gallery in Lisbon (www.note.org.pt), a cultural platform dedicated to the dissemination and debate of architecture through exhibitions, lectures, and publications. Since 2019, she has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (DA/UAL).
She was a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (2019); professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at PUC – Rio de Janeiro (2017–2019); visiting professor at Escola da Cidade – Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo (2010–2011); assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid – ETSAM (2009–2010, 2011–2012); and at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero (2008).
She has edited several books and exhibition catalogues, such as: “The Substance of Things” by José Adrião Arquitectos (2023); “Architecture: How Do We Learn?” (2022); “All Directions” by Ricardo Carvalho Arquitectos (2022); “Blue Notebooks” by Eduardo Souto de Moura (2019); “Study for Some Project” by Carla Juaçaba (2018); “Architectanic, the Days of the Troika” by Jorge Figueira (2016); “Modern Masterpieces Revisited” by Luís Santiago Baptista (2016); “Homeland, News from Portugal – Archive 2014”; “Working Drawings” by Ricardo Bak Gordon (2014); “PROAP: Landscape Architecture” (2010).
She worked with the architect João Pedro Falcão de Campos, Lisbon, and with Mansilla & Tuñón, Madrid.