Architect, architecture historian and chair of Docomomo International. She is associate professor at IST-UTL Lisboa, where she is in charge of the architectural history and theory disciplines. Her research field is the history of architecture and the city of the twentieth century, in which she develops an operative view oriented towards the conservation of modern architecture, focusing especially on post-war architectural culture and relations between Iberian, African and American modernity. On these topics she has published books and scientific articles and curate several exhibitions. In 2006 the President of the Portuguese Republic awarded her the honorary title of Commander of the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique in recognition of her contribution to the dissemination of knowledge about architecture.