Filipe Mónica (Lisbon, 1972) is an architect who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1996. Between 1996 and 2001, he collaborated with Gonçalo Byrne and Aires Mateus, working as a project coordinator on several projects that were widely published and awarded at both national and international levels. In 1998, he established his own award-winning architectural practice. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Project Design studio at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and at Universidade Lusófona (2014–2015), and as an advisor to the Competitions Department of the Portuguese Order of Architects – Southern Regional Section (OASRS, 2010–2014). He participated as a curator, author, and researcher in the exhibition Arquitetura em Concurso: Um Percurso Crítico pela Modernidade Portuguesa (Architecture in Competition: A Critical Path through Portuguese Modernity) (CCB, 2016), as well as in the eponymous publication (Dafne, 2016). A recipient of a research grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and ISCTE, he completed his PhD in 2025 with unanimous distinction. His doctoral dissertation is titled Seleção Natural: O Concurso de Arquitetura e o Caso de Sagres de 1954 (Natural Selection: The Architecture Competition and the Sagres Case of 1954). Since 2016 he has been an Associated Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory.