PhD Architect by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP). Neiva is a practitioner architect (since 2007) and an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, where she completed her PhD with the thesis entitled “Exhibiting Portuguese Architecture. Twentieth-century Curatorial Strategies”.
She has almost a decade of teaching experience, as a lecturer on “History of Ancient and Medieval Architecture” at FAUP (2012-2019). Besides she was an invited lecturer at Technical University of Munich (2019), teaching the seminar “Exhibiting through Space. Immersive Design in Architecture Exhibitions”, and currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Theory 1 – “General Theory of Space Organization” at FAUP.
Neiva is also a founding member of the research group “Narratives of the Educational Project in Architecture”, of FAUP research centre CEAU, within which she co-organized some academic events such as “Ludic Architecture - IV International Meeting on Educational Devices and Spaces in Architecture” (2017) and the “International Conference Cycle Context (s) in Contemporary Architecture: 5 Continents” (2018-2019), and participated as author and speaker at international congresses and conferences.
She coordinated the Department of Communication and Culture from FAUP between 2014 and 2016. She curated the exhibitions “Porto - The City, the School and the masters” for UABB 2015 (SZ) Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture (Shenzhen, 2015), “Lo studio Ginoulhiac - 10 Anni. 10 Case. 10 Temi di Architettura” (Bergamo and Porto, 2019) and she was also co-author of the exhibition project for the art collective exhibition "Vicente. O Mito em Lisboa" (Lisbon, 2019).
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