Profile
Alicia Moreira is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator who, through small-scale projects with large-scale entanglements, studies architecture’s role in questions of property, collectivity, and alternate forms of domesticity. The latter is the focus of her Wortham Fellowship research, Low Resolution, which explores the latent potentials of ownership ambiguity in Houston, where use and representation misalign. Her work has been featured in publications such as Log, AN Interior, and Room One Thousand.
Moreira won the Branner and Beckerman Travel Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, for her master’s research project, Territorial Tendencies, and was awarded the Watson Best Project Prize for her thesis project, Other Sand Stories. She took part in ETH Zurich’s 2024 in:dépendence residency in Furka Pass, Switzerland, where she built the installation Misregistration on the Rhône Glacier.
Currently affiliated with The Open Workshop, Moreira has also practiced at NEMESTUDIO, collaborating on projects including CS2 House (Denver, 2024) and Six Hundred, an ADU proposal that explored alternative property models, material supply chains, and disassembly and was included in the Small Infrastructures exhibition at Harvard and UC Berkeley in 2022.
Moreira has taught previously at the California College of the Arts, UC Berkeley, and the University of San Francisco.