Andreia Garcia (Guimarães, 1985) is an architect, curator, editor, researcher and university professor. Her interests focus on the contemporary practice of architecture in an era marked by strong technological advances and an imminent ecological crisis. At the University of Beira Interior (UBI), she is Assistant Professor in Architecture courses, in Project field: Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture; and PhD in Architecture, at the Faculty of Engineering, of which she is Vice-President. She is an integrated member of the architecture, urbanism and design research center (CIAUD-UBI). She has been a Studio Tutor at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, invited Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Minho (EAUM) in Guimarães, and has also been invited to teach at architecture schools in Madrid, Valladolid, London, São Paulo, Jordan, Vilnius and Georgia. Her PhD in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (FAUL, 2015) was awarded Professor Manuel Tainha Prize for the best PhD in Architecture thesis in the 2014/2015, and was book published in 2016 under the title "Scenic Space, Architecture and the City". Her research, witnessed in the publication of which she is the author (Shaping Shape) ¿ selected in the context of the FAD Iberian Awards, Spain (2020), in the category of Thought and Criticism. She is the author of the collection 'Sebentas de Projecto' (No. 1 Eduardo Souto de Moura, No. 2 Carla Juaçaba, No. 3 Siza Vieira). She published the book 40 dias / 40 days, which critically revisits a research project that began with a series of gatherings that she coordinated, called "Desde Casa" (From Home), where she talks to forty architects about discovering and exploring other paths and meanings for understanding human's relationship with the world and the role of architecture in mediating it. In recent years, she has consolidate her independent practice in architecture, and her professional work has been honoured on several occasions: shortlisted for the FAD Awards, Spain (2018, 2019 and 2020); winner of the Leonardo Prize, Belarus (2019); finalist for the BIGMAT Prize, France (2019); shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards, UK (2019); honourable mention in the Hauser Awards, Germany (2020); nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize (2022); and published in books and international specialist magazines such as: Phaidon, Prestel, Hauser, Dezeen, Domus, Designboom, Archdaily, among others. Andreia Garcia was nominated by competition as the curator of the Official Representation of Portugal at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2023 - entitled Fertile Futures. Discussing and proposing strategies for the management, reservois and transformation of fresh water, and contributing to a common and global discussion, Fertile Futures problematised the scarcity of this resource, starting from Portuguese territory in multiple hydrogeographies from north to south, from the Azores to Madeira. A proposal that commissioned young architects, in collaboration with experts 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 relevance of architecture's contribution to redesigning a decarbonised, decolonised and collaborative tomorrow, in direct response to the commissioner Lesley Lokko's call. Following this exhibition, considered a research project, she has already published two books Fertile Futures Vol. I and Vol. II with contributions from several guest authors such as: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Emanuele Coccia, Ifor Duncan, Ameneh Solati, Luca Astorri, Margarida Waco, Marina Otero Verzier, Álvaro Domingues, among others.