Gabriela de Matos

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Gabriela de Matos
Born Minas Gerais   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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  • Golden Lion for Best National Participation (2023)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Gabriela de Matos is a Brazilian architect. She analyzes the impacts of architecture and urban design on structural racism and sexism within the context of the African diaspora. [1]

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Early life and education

Gabriela de Matos was born in Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais. [2] In 2010, she earned a bachelor's degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. She later specialized in Construction Management and Real Estate Assessment before completing a master's degree at the University of São Paulo. [3]

Career

In 2014, she founded her own architecture firm, Estúdio de Arquitetura – Gabriela de Matos. In 2018, she launched Projeto ArquitetasNegras (Black Female Architects Project), a catalog of Black Brazilian female architects. [4] As part of this initiative, she wrote and published the project's namesake magazine, [5] which won the IAB-SP award for Best Architecture Publication in 2019. [6]

From 2020 to 2023, she was a professor of architecture and urbanism at São Paulo's Escola da Cidade. Between 2020 and 2022, she served as vice president of the São Paulo department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-SP). [6]

In 2022, the São Paulo Biennial Foundation announced De Matos and Paulo Tavares as curators of the Brazilian Pavilion for the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture. [7] That same year, she was appointed as a juror for the 2022 Ibero-American Architecture Biennale.

In 2023, their pavilion, Terra, was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. [2]

Her work "investigates structural racism and its implications in urban planning and architecture produced in the African diaspora in Brazil." [8]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Escritório de Arquitetura Gab de Matos".
  2. 1 2 3 Letier Pinto, Tatiana (2023-10-18). "A conversation with Paulo Tavares and Gabriela de Matos, curators of the Brazil pavilion and winners of a Golden Lion". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  3. ↑ "Arquivos Gabriela de Matos" [Archives Gabriela de Matos]. artebrasileiros (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  4. ↑ "Projeto Arquitetas Negras: uma experiência de representatividade na arquitetura e no urbanismo" [Projeto Arquitetas Negras: An Experience of Representation in Architecture and Urbanism]. Secretaria Municipal do Verde e do Meio Ambiente (in Portuguese). 2019-10-17. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  5. ↑ "Mulheres Negras na Arquitetura: Pioneirismo e Contemporaneidade" [Black Women in Architecture: Pioneering Work and Contemporary Perspectives]. ArchDaily (in Portuguese). 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  6. 1 2 Baratto, Romullo (2020-12-23). "Gabriela de Matos é eleita Arquiteta do Ano pelo IAB-RJ" [Gabriela de Matos Is Elected Architect of the Year by IAB-RJ.]. ArchDaily Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  7. 1 2 "Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares Will Be the Curators of the Brazil Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023". ArchDaily. 2022-12-29. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  8. ↑ Cruttenden, Harry (2024-05-27). "Mae-ling Lokko, Deborah Spencer and Gabriela de Matos announced as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges". Dezeen. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
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