Zara Ferreira (b. Lisbon, 1988) is an architect and researcher. She holds an Integrated Master’s degree in Architecture (2012) and a PhD in Architecture (2026), both from Técnico – University of Lisbon (IST). Her doctoral thesis, "Habitações para o maior número em Lisboa: Olivais e Telheiras. Transformação do espaço doméstico e dos modos de habitar (1960s–2020s)", awarded with Distinction and Honour, investigates how domestic space in large-scale housing estates has been transformed over time, and how architectural design has accommodated or resisted changing forms of occupation, comfort, family life, and everyday use, in close relation to housing policies and community dynamics. Her Master’s thesis, "O Moderno e o Clima da África Lusófona. Arquitectura escolar em Moçambique: o programa de Fernando Mesquita (1955–1975)", awarded 19/20, studied the relationship between modern architecture, climate, and educational programmes in Mozambique during the late colonial period, with particular attention to the adaptation of school buildings to tropical conditions. Her work focuses on housing, domestic space, and the transformation of architecture over time, with particular attention to the relationships between design, use, public policies, heritage, and everyday life. Modern Movement architecture, especially from the post-war period, has been one of the main contexts of this research, including housing, educational buildings, and processes of transformation and reuse. In those fields, she has been a fellow and/or researcher in several research projects, including "EWV_Exchanging World Visions: Modern Architecture in Lusophone Africa (1943–1974) Looking Through Brazilian Experience Established Since the 1930s" (2011–2013), "Reuse of Modernist Buildings. Design Tools for Sustainable Transformations" (2016–2019), "Modern ASEAN Architecture" (2017–2019), and "reHAB – Habitat Regeneration as a Cradle for Resilient Healthy Communities" (2024). She has co-edited 4 books, published around 60 texts in books, conference proceedings, scientific journals, magazines, and online platforms, carried out peer review for 5 scientific journals, and served on the scientific committees of 6 international conferences. She has lectured occasionally in master’s and doctoral programmes (Lisboa, Porto, Paris) and is a member of external evaluation committees for study programmes in the field of Architecture (A3ES). From 2014 to 2018, she was Secretary-General of Docomomo International, an NGO dedicated to the documentation and conservation of Modern Movement architecture in more than 70 countries. In this capacity, she organized conferences, seminars, and student workshops (Seoul, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Tokyo, Valencia); served as a tutor in urban workshops (Seoul, Kuwait City); and co-edited 10 issues of the "Docomomo Journal", the only international journal regularly dedicated to this field. She is currently Secretary-General of Docomomo Portugal and an active member of the Docomomo International Specialist Committees on Interior Design and Urbanism & Landscape. Alongside her academic and institutional work, she occasionally writes theatre reviews for "Umbigo" and "Brotéria" and conducts guided tours of modern neighbourhoods in Lisbon.