Teresa Madeira da Silva is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte and an Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte.
She is currently Director of the PhD Programme in Urban Studies at Iscte (a joint doctoral programme between Iscte-IUL and FCSH-UNL) (2019–2026). She teaches the course Theories in Urban Studies and the Multidisciplinary Seminar in Urban Studies within the PhD in Urban Studies, as well as the Final Architecture Project course (which she coordinates) in the Integrated Master’s Degree in Architecture at Iscte.

She served as Director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte and as Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (Dec 2022–Dec 2025).

She was a member of the research teams of three projects: UrbanoScenes. Post-colonial imaginaries of urbanisation in prospective research. Portugal and Angola, coordinated by Simone Tulumello (2022–2025); CLI-CC.HE – Climate change, cities, communities and health equity, an Erasmus+ project, coordinated by Rosalba D’Onofrio (Università di Camerino) (2022–2024); and Grandes Trabalhos. Architectural and urban operations after the 1998 Lisbon International Exhibition, coordinated by Paulo Tormenta Pinto (2018–2022).

She has published several articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals (seven indexed in Web of Science or Scopus). She has published three e-books (2018/2019) and coordinated the editing of three additional volumes of a pedagogical nature (2021/2022), published by the Iscte Repository. She has published 15 book chapters and several papers in conference proceedings, and has presented 57 communications at scientific meetings. She coordinated a research project for the Institute for Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU), which resulted in a service provision contract between Iscte and IHRU (2011).

She coordinated the Summer School Sufficiency Strategies in Urban Architecture, at the invitation of Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD) (2015); the Specialisation Seminar Designing in Times of Scarcity: Temporary Occupation of Vacant Spaces (2014); and the workshop Collective Housing in Tamera Solar Village with TUD (2012). She collaborates in international networks, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation portal Heritage of Portuguese Influence, the Permanent Secretariat of CIHEL – International Congress on Housing in the Lusophone Space, and, since 2025, Network H – Network for Housing Studies.

She has taught approximately 70 Master’s and PhD-level courses. She has served as examiner/member of examination boards in several PhD, Master’s, and Integrated Master’s degree examinations. She has supervised three completed PhD theses, six completed Master’s dissertations, and 31 Final Architecture Projects (FAP) within the Integrated Master’s in Architecture (12 design projects and 19 theoretical components). She has supervised six professional internships accredited by the Order of Architects (four completed). She currently supervises five PhD theses and 17 Final Architecture Projects.

She was ECTS coordinator of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (DAU) (2014–2022), a member of the Pedagogical Committee of ISTA (School of Technologies and Architecture) (2013–2016), and a member of the Scientific Committee of the DAU (2013–2016). She served as Director of the Master’s Programme in Urban Studies (2015–2016), and as coordinator of the 2nd year (2017–2019), 3rd year (2011–2014), and 5th year (2014–2016 and 2020–2021) of the Integrated Master’s in Architecture (MIA) at Iscte-IUL. She was Ombudsperson for Trainee Architects at the Order of Architects between 2014 and 2016.

She has several years of professional experience as an architect and, in 1991, received the Valmor and Municipal Architecture Award 1989 (co-authored). Her work focuses on architecture and urbanism, and her scientific interests include housing; housing programmes; architectural design education and methodologies; architectural design; urban and building rehabilitation; cities and climate change; urban studies; and urbanism of Portuguese origin.