Architect and urbanist (1989) by the FAU-USP, master (1997) in Urban Environmental Structures by the same faculty and PhD (2002) in Design and Computation by MIT. Since 2004, she has been an exclusive professor of the FEC-Unicamp. In FEC-Unicamp, Gabriela created the Automation and Prototyping Laboratory for Architecture and Construction - LAPAC (2006) and the Center for Urbanization Studies for Knowledge and Innovation - CEUCI (2022), of which he is director. She was advisor to the Dean of Undergraduate Studies (2009-13) and Associate Director of the Museum of Exploratory Sciences (2015-18). She completed a postdoctoral degree at FA-ULisboa (2010) and was a visiting researcher at the Department of Architecture at MIT (2018). She was deputy director of international relations of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi) and president of the CAAD Futures Foundation. She received the Arturo Montagú award from SIGraDi and the Zeferino Vaz award from Unicamp for her academic career. Since 2017 she has been a professor at the Department of Architecture and Construction at FECFAU-Unicamp. She is a member of the Working Group for the implementation of the International Hub for Sustainable Development (HIDS) of Unicamp.

Professor in Architecture & Urbanism at Iscte Lisbon University, at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism. She is a Senior Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL where she coordinated the research teams for Project MEMO - Evolution of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Metabolism. Lessons towards a Sustainable Urban Future (financed by the Portuguese Science Foundation - PTDC/EMS-ENE/2197/2012); and Project SPLACH Spatial Planning for Change (financed by the Program PAC 2020 with the University of Porto and University of Aveiro). She was the Vice Director for the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at ISCTE-IUL (2013- 2016) and the ERASMUS Coordinator for the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (2002- 2016). She was a member of the General Council of ISCTE-IUL and of ISCTE Scientific Council. She was a co-founder of the Portuguese-language Network on Urban Morphology (PNUM - a regional Network of ISUF), and its president between 2015 and 2018. Her current research interests are related to the study of Urban Form, Ecological Urbanism and Urban Sustainability. Teresa was awarded Women in Science 2019, for the field of Architecture, by Ciência Viva (http://www.cienciaviva.pt/mulheresnaciencia/index.asp). Her latest book 'Atlas of the Food System. Challenges for a Sustainable transition of the Lisbon Region' was published by Springer, which aims to expand our understandings about the powerful relations between food systems and urban form and therefore better inform future urban planning and architectural policies and practices within the built environment.

Having completed his doctoral degree on urbanism at TU Delft, the Netherlands, in 2013, he has been lecturing at METU Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning as an assistant professor. His publications include the guest editorial for the journal of Built Environment (2011, 2022) and several articles, including those in the Journal of Urban Design (2010, 2022), Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (2011), Urban Design International (2012, 2020), Urban Morphology (2017), and Habitat International (2023). His main research interests are physical planning and design, urban morphology, urban design theory and methodology, and parametric urbanism. Instructing at Master of Urban Design Studio at METU, he currently teaches ‘Creative Thinking for Planners’, ‘Parametric Urban Design’, and ‘Collective Housing Planning and Design’ courses. In the body of TEPAV (The Economic Research Foundation of Turkey), he consulted for the strategic vision project for the Gaza urban strip, which was proposed to both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities in January 2016. Since his return to Turkey in 2014, he has been a jury member in a series of national and international design competitions. Within different design teams, he has had award-winning projects within recent national and international competitions, including Konyaaltı Waterfront (2015), Antalya and Taksim, İstanbul (2020).

Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon (USA), where he teaches design and courses in architectural and urban theory, vernacular architecture, and the cultural and geographic influences on architecture and cities. He is the author of several books: The Culture of Building (Oxford); Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life (Routledge); and Working Cities: Architecture, Place and Production (Routledge). He is the co-author, with Christopher Alexander and others, of The Production of Houses (Oxford). And he is the editor of two compendia: Early and Unpublished Writings of Christopher Alexander: Thinking, Building, Writing (Routledge) and Critical and Primary Sources in Vernacular Architecture (4 volumes, Bloomsbury). He is the recipient of the Distinguished Professor award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and The Culture of Building received the PROSE award in 2000 for “Best Book in Architecture and Urban Studies” from the Association of American Publishers. He has devoted his career to the development of a broad, humanistic approach to the understanding of architecture, settlements and cities. He sees the built environment as a whole, transcending boundaries between cultures, between the vernacular and buildings designed by architects, between historical epochs, between different methodologies and different schools of thought. He has been a member of ISUF since its meeting in Florence in 1989.