Marina Lickel

Marina Lickel is an architect working across design, research, and program strategy at the intersection of climate, territory, and collective practice. She holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism and a postgraduate qualification in Architecture, Education and Society from Escola da Cidade, São Paulo. Her work engages architecture as an open-ended process, developed through participatory frameworks and long-term collaboration with communities. Over more than six years with Estúdio Flume, she has worked across diverse regions in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon.
 

Her work has received the Simon Architecture Prize by Fundació Mies van der Rohe in 2024, the Tomie Ohtake AkzoNobel Architecture Award in 2023, and the IAB National Award in 2023, and has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize and the Swiss Architectural Award. It has been presented at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2025, the Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage de Versailles in 2025, and the São Paulo Architecture Biennale in 2019. Now based in Amsterdam, she works across program design, sustainability strategy, and grant development. She is currently developing her work through the MSc in Sustainability Management at Rotterdam School of Management.