About:
Marina Lickel works at the intersection of climate, territory, and collective practice, across program design, sustainability strategy, and architectural research. 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 worked across diverse regions in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon. She holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism and a postgraduate qualification in Architecture, Education and Society, both from Escola da Cidade, São Paulo. Now based in Amsterdam, she works across program design, sustainability strategy, and grant development, while pursuing an MSc in Sustainability Management at Rotterdam School of Management.
AWARDS
2025 · Winner & Special Distinction, IAB/MA Award, Buildings Category (work developed for the Ammodo Architecture Award) ↗ 2024 · Winner, Simon Architecture Prize, 5th Edition · Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona 2024 · Winner, APCA Award, Environmental Resilience in Architecture 2024 · Recognition, Ammodo Architecture Award, Social Engagement 2024 · 2nd Place, Oscar Niemeyer Prize 05 · Red de Bienales de América Latina 2023 · Winner, IAB Award, State Stage (IAB/MA) and National Stage · IAB Brasil 2023 · Winner, 9th Tomie Ohtake AkzoNobel Architecture Award 2021 · Arcanjo Culture Award, Visual Arts Category · Teatro Sérgio Cardoso & Secretaria da Cultura (team with architect Carmela Rocha)
NOMINATIONS & SHORTLISTS
2025 · Shortlisted, Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award, 7th Edition 2024 · Nominated, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize · IIT College of Architecture, Chicago 2024 · Finalist, XXIV Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito (BAQ) 2022 · Nominated, Swiss Architectural Award · Fondazione Teatro dell'Architettura, Mendrisio
EXHIBITIONS
2025 · Invited Laureate, Biennale d'Architecture et de Paysage d'Île-de-France (BAP!) · Versailles →catalog 2026 · Chicago Architecture Biennial — SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, Ecologies capsule · Chicago (September 2025 – February 2026) 2026 · Time Space Existence — Repair, Regenerate, Reuse, European Cultural Centre · Palazzo Mora, Venice (May – November 2026) 2026 · Habitar a Floresta, Official Exhibition at COP30 · Belém 2024 · XXIV Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito (BAQ) · Centro Histórico de Quito →catalog 2023 · 9th Tomie Ohtake AkzoNobel Architecture Award — Selected Works, Instituto Tomie Ohtake · São Paulo (May–July 2023) →catalog 2019 · Todo Dia / Everyday, 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo · CCSP and Sesc 24 de Maio →catalog
PUBLICATIONS
Selected publications featuring projects developed with Estúdio Flume, where I worked as part of the team.
2024 · PLOT Edición Especial Nº 21→, Suelos, Ecologías, Territorios, Comunidades [Soils, Ecologies, Territories, Communities]
Argentina 2024 · The Architectural Review, W Awards Issue→, "Portfolio: Noelia Monteiro, Estúdio Flume" · by Francesco Perrotta-Bosch
March 2023 · Cultured Magazine, "Young Architects 2023"→: "Architecture Studio Estudio Flume Builds Community Before Anything Else" · by Emma Leigh MacDonald
February (print and online) 2023 · Wallpaper*→, "Palm Court" · by Ellie Stathaki
July issue 2023 · Revista Projeto→, Edição Especial Espaços de Ensino, "Escola Rural Bom Jesus" · November
PRESS
2025 · ArchDaily→, "Educational Area of the Exhibition A River Does Not Exist Alone / Estúdio Flume"
October 2024 · ArchDaily→, "Babassu Harvesters Reference Center / Estúdio Flume" ·
December · 2023 · MDC→ · Mínimo Denominador Comum, "Centro de Referência Quebradeiras de Babaçu"
August 2023 · MDC→ · Mínimo Denominador Comum, "Casa do Mel"
August 2023 · Vitruvius→ , "Espaço das Quebradeiras de Babaçu" nº 269.02 · May
EDUCATION
2026–present · MSc in Sustainability Management · Rotterdam School of Management
2022–2025 · Postgraduate in Architecture, Education & Society · Escola da Cidade · São Paulo
2015–2020 · Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism, Socio-environmental Design & Sustainability · Escola da Cidade · São Paulo
TEACHING
2022–2024 · Assistant Professor · Vertical Studio · Escola da Cidade · São Paulo Course coordination, project mentorship, and academic evaluation within an interdisciplinary collective design atelier. Led initiatives connecting 100+ students with public elementary schools in São Paulo through applied projects across eight partner schools.
LECTURES
2022–2025 · Invited lectures on participatory design, territorial practices, and socio-environmental development · Escola da Cidade (postgraduate) and Universidade Paulista
2022–2025 · "Architecture of Many Hands" — postgraduate contributions on curriculum development and co-design methodologies · Escola da Cidade
2022–2025 · Speculative urban research on coastal sedimentation in Paraty, Brazil — design project projecting 200-year shoreline scenarios