Marina Correia

Marina Correia is a practicing architect and professor of design, history, and theory. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from The City University of New York in 2006, a Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2013 and a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Sao Paulo in 2018. As part of her doctoral research, she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 2018. She also studied at the School of Philosophy of the University of Sao Paulo (2000-03) and at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo (2000). Prior to Barnard, she taught at The City College of New York, Columbia University, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Harvard GSD, RISD, Pratt Institute and Cal Poly.

She established her practice—Atelier of Architecture and Urban Design—in 2013, which has been dedicated to public architecture (The National Museum in Rio de Janeiro w/ UNESCO), exhibition design (Lina Bo Bardi’s centennial exhibitions in the Glass House and in Munich), interior design and non-profit partnerships in the United States, Brazil and Europe. Between 2004 and 2013 Marina Correia was a collaborator at multiple architecture firms in the United States, Spain and Brazil, including Isay Weinfeld, SOM San Francisco, Borrell Arquitectes, Corea&Moran, Carlos Brillembourg, 1100: Architect and Simino Architects.

Her publications include the articles Watchful Solitude: John Hejduk and Venice (Drawing Matter 2024), John Hejduk's Bye House: An Object in the Landscape (with Stan Allen, Drawing Matter 2023), Ecological Urbanism in Latin America (co-edited with M. Mostafavi, G. Doherty, A. Duran and L. Valenzuela - Harvard GSD and GG, 2019), The National Museum beyond the Palace (Cultural Preservation Center Magazine of the University of Sao Paulo, 2022) and Tales of Invisibility: Exhibition Design between Architectures (P.M. Bardi Institute, 2022).

Her doctoral dissertation Miniature Volume: John Hejduk and Venice explored through the work of John Hejduk the critical dimension of architecture in the late 20th century, presenting the close relationship between poetic language and the socio-political agenda of this period. Her master design thesis project Territorial Reclaim: Clearing Strategies in Rio de Janeiro investigated education and public infrastructure in the context of pacification (a violent military intervention that occurred in 2010 at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio’s largest informal settlements).

She was the inaugural Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at The City College of New York in the Spring of 2025.

Website: https://www.atelier-architecture.com