Architect Ana Tostões, a guest lecturer on FAUP's Doctorate Programme in Architecture, will be honoured in Paris on 18 September by the French Academy of Architecture with the Medal of Criticism and Publications - Academy of Architecture Prize 1965.

This honour is ‘awarded to personalities who have contributed to the enrichment of the architectural debate through their writings, publications or achievements’.

The Academy of Architecture (Académie d'Architecture, in the original) is a French scientific society whose aim is to promote the quality of architecture and spatial planning and their teaching, the search for environmental improvement, the publication of opinions on architectural and urban planning issues, the research and conservation of architectural archives and the organisation of conferences and exhibitions, explains AICA.

Ana Tostões is an architect, architecture critic and historian and has been president of SP/AICA since 2021. She is also a full professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon. Between 2010 and 2021, she was president of Docomomo International, a foundation that deals with modern architecture in the world, a mandate during which she moved from a mostly European organisation to a global dimension, coordinating more than 70 countries on five continents. Since 2023, Ana Tostões has been in charge of Docomomo Portugal and is the editor of the Docomomo Journal.

She is also a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland, the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona and the University of Navarre, as well as the University of Porto.

His field of research is the history of modern architecture and urbanism, topics on which he has published books and scientific articles, curated exhibitions, participated in juries, scientific committees and given lectures at European, American and Asian universities.

She published ‘Idade Maior, Cultura e Tecnologia na Arquitetura Moderna Portuguesa’ (Major Age, Culture and Technology in Portuguese Modern Architecture) (Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, 2015), which won the X Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Prize, and edited ‘Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique’ (Modern Architecture in Africa: Angola and Mozambique), which won the Gulbenkian Prize from the Portuguese Academy of History (2014).

She is also the researcher responsible for the projects ‘Curar e Cuidar’, ‘A Monumentalidade Critica de Álvaro Siza’ and ‘Siza Barroco’.

She recently published the books ‘Cure & Care, architecture and health’ (2020), ‘Lisboa Moderna’ (2021) and ‘A Monumentalidade Crítica de Álvaro Siza’ (2023).