Personal Presentation

Carolina Leite was born in Oporto, Portugal, in 1988. Has a Master degree in architecture from the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP -2012), having studied at the Facoltà di Architettura della Università di Roma Tre under the Erasmus program (2010).

In Oporto, she worked with CCCB and Álvaro Siza architects and in Berlin with Hoidn Wang Partner.

Together with Wilfried Wang she curated the "Eileen Gray, total Work of Art: E.1027, 1:1" exhibition held at FAUP (2019), at the Basque Institute of Architecture in San Sebastián (2021), at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC, 2021) in Lisbon, and during Milan Design Week (2022).

She is a Phd student and researcher at the Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU-FAUP), ATPH group. She was awarded a FCT scholarship to developed her Phd Thesis on the subject “Porto, 1900-1950 : city, dwelling, middle-housing” advised by Professor Manuel Mendes and Nuno Valentim as co-adviser

Together with Ricardo Mendes she is cofounder of Krafna, an architectural collective based in Oporto.