Gabriela de Matos is an architect and urban planner. Born in Vale do Rio Doce in Minas Gerais, she creates multidisciplinary projects with the aim of promoting and highlighting Brazilian architectural and urban culture from a race and gender perspective. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of PUC Minas in 2010 and in 2016 she specialized in sustainability and management of the built environment at UFMG. Master's student at Diversitas - Center for the Study of Diversities, Intolerances and Conflicts of USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH), currently teaching undergraduate classes in architecture and urbanism at the Escola da Cidade.
She directs the Architecture Studio – Gabriela de Matos, created in 2014. She is vice president of the Institute of Architects of Brazil in the department of São Paulo. She is the founder of the Arquitetas Negras project, which maps the production of black Brazilian architects. She investigates the architecture produced in Africa and its diaspora with a focus on Brazil. Among others, she proposes actions that promote the debate on gender and race in architecture as a way of giving visibility to the issue. She is the publisher of the book Arquitetas negras vol.1, which integrates important collections such as the Washington Library (United States) and winner of the IAB-SP Award in the Best Architecture Publications category.
She was a collaborator of the Rebel Architette collective in 2019 (Italy). She participated as a speaker at the UIA – International Union of Architects in 2021. In the 2021 edition of the CASACOR exhibition, she signed the welcoming atmosphere, entitled Espaço Agô. She was awarded Architect of the Year 2020 by IAB RJ. She was a jury member of the Ibero-American Architecture Biennial 2022.
She directs the Architecture Studio – Gabriela de Matos, created in 2014. She is vice president of the Institute of Architects of Brazil in the department of São Paulo. She is the founder of the Arquitetas Negras project, which maps the production of black Brazilian architects. She investigates the architecture produced in Africa and its diaspora with a focus on Brazil. Among others, she proposes actions that promote the debate on gender and race in architecture as a way of giving visibility to the issue. She is the publisher of the book Arquitetas negras vol.1, which integrates important collections such as the Washington Library (United States) and winner of the IAB-SP Award in the Best Architecture Publications category.
She was a collaborator of the Rebel Architette collective in 2019 (Italy). She participated as a speaker at the UIA – International Union of Architects in 2021. In the 2021 edition of the CASACOR exhibition, she signed the welcoming atmosphere, entitled Espaço Agô. She was awarded Architect of the Year 2020 by IAB RJ. She was a jury member of the Ibero-American Architecture Biennial 2022.
![Brazil pavilion, Terra [Earth]. Photograph by Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia](/sites/default/files/styles/card_article_image_big/public/lead-images/metalocus_brazil-pavilion-earth_venice-architecture-biennale-2023_18_2p.webp?itok=9qBHW9hw "Brazil pavilion, Terra [Earth]. Photograph by Matteo de Mayda. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia")
