Critic

Marta Caldeira is an architect and historian. Her academic research investigates modern discourses of architecture and the city, with a particular focus on historical contexts of political transition. Before teaching at Yale, Caldeira worked for Peter Eisenman in New York and for Gonçalo Byrne in Lisbon and taught at Columbia University. Her writings have appeared in European Architectural History Network Newsletter, Log, Festival dell’Architettura Magazine, Jornal Arquitectos, Il Progetto, and Metamorfosi, as well as recent anthologies on modern and contemporary architecture. Her academic research has been supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Fulbright Commission, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and awards by the Society of Architectural Historians and the Buell Center at Columbia University. Caldeira received a professional diploma in architecture from Faculdade de Arquitetura at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal, and an M.S.A.A.D. and a Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Columbia University.