Ana da Costa

Ana Cottinelli Telmo Monteiro da Costa was born in Lisbon in 1960.

She graduated in architecture from ESBAL in 1983. In 1985 she was awarded a “Master of Architecture” by the College of Environmental Design of California, Berkeley.

In 1987 she completed the Marketing Fundamentals course at the School of Business Administration of the University of California Extension in San Francisco.

Between 1983 and 1985 she was a “teaching Assistant” in the first year of the architecture course at the College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, where she received the “Distinguished teaching Assistant” award.

During the years she lived in California (1983 to 1989) she worked with the architecture practice Sandy & Babcock in San Francisco and later as lead architect at Bluepeter Design in San Francisco, where she was responsible for several projects, notably the first exhibition stands for PIXAR and for NEXT computers. She was also marketing director of that practice until 1988.

In 1989 she returned to Portugal, where she set up her own studio. That same year she was invited to be a teaching assistant on the Design Project module of the architecture course at Universidade Lusíada in Lisbon.

In 1990 she joined Atelier Daciano Da Costa, where she developed numerous joint projects, such as the interiors of the Centro Cultural de Belém, the Cimpor Centre in Maputo, the design and street furniture for the Alto do Lumiar Central Axis and the furniture for the Casa da Música in Porto.

During those years she combined professional practice with teaching, as a visiting assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, on the first and second year Design Project module, where she taught until 1999.

From 2005 she has led Atelier Daciano Da Costa, and is the author of numerous projects, among them the new Terreiro do Paço interchange.

In 2011 she began working in Brazil, where she designed the interiors of Odebrecht's new headquarters and of other corporate and residential buildings.