Mónica Pacheco PhD, is an architect (Fa-UTL, Lisbon) with a MA in Housing and Urbanism (Architectural Association, London). She worked in architectural offices in Portugal and the Netherlands collaborating in projects such as the Institutsgebaude für Oper und Orchester in Graz, Ponte Parodi in Genoa (UnStudio), and Casa da Música in Oporto (OMA). She is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE-IUL, where she teaches since 2004. Mónica joined the Architectural Association Visiting Teachers Programme in 2015, and has been invited for lectures, reviews, workshops and juris in  Boston, Londres, Zurique, Milão, Salerno, Antuérpia, Hasselt, Detmold and Sighișoara. Her research focus is on urban and architectural education; its role in (re)theorizing discourses and agendas; its impact in (re)shaping the profession; and its physical and geographical translations. She has chaired sessions (e.g. All Ireland Architecture Research Group); presented and published papers and book chapters and was guest editor of the Journal of the Association for Architectural Education (AAE), “Charrete”, in the issue “Global Practices, Transnational Pedagogies”4(2). Member and researcher of DINÂMIA-CET, she participated in the international project “Housing for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda, Macau”, in the organization of the international congress “Optimistic Suburbia” and coordinated the workshop and exhibition with the same name (2014-16). More recently she was evolved with “Coast to Coast: late infrastructural development in former Portuguese Africa (Angola and Mozambique): Historical-critical analysis and post-colonial assessment” and currently in “Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia”, both funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She was part of the Cost Action 18137 European Middle-Class Mass Housing. In 2016 she started developing an investigation as Visiting Research Fellow at the Bartlett-UCL on the history of the Department of Development and Tropical Studies at the Architectural Association. Through the analysis of its heritage and transnational network of expertise in the “global south”, her research concerns a critical reading of the pre-established systems of knowledge transfer in postcolonial architecture.