Alexandra Areia

Alexandra Areia, Architect, Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA-CET, ISCTE-IUL, currently working on the research project Middle Class Mass Housing (MCMH). PhD from ISCTE-IUL in 2019, with a thesis on the communication of architecture through film media (analysing the specific case of Manuel Graça Dias and his RTP television program in the 1990s); Master by the Metropolis program of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) in 2007; Studied at École Nationale Superieure d’Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine (ENSAPVS) in 2002-03; Graduated in architecture by Minho University (UM) in 2004. Member of the Friendly Fire collective since 2010, Programmer of Arquiteturas Film Festival in 2014-16, Editor at the Jornal Arquitectos (J-A) in 2016-18. In 2019, wrote for Porto Brutalista (Circo de Ideias) and co-edited A Map of Lisbon in Cinema (Dafne Editora and Lisbon Municipal Archive – Videoteca).