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.
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
AWARDS
Selected Awards featuring projects developed by Estúdio Flume, where Marina worked as part of the team:
2025 · Winner & Special Distinction, IAB/MA Award, Buildings Category (work developed for the Ammodo Architecture Award) awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗
2024 · Winner, Simon Architecture Prize, 5th Edition · Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2024 · Winner, APCA Award, Environmental Resilience in Architecture 2024 · Recognition, Ammodo Architecture Award, Social Engagement awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2024 · 2nd Place, Oscar Niemeyer Prize 05 · Red de Bienales de América Latina awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2023 · Winner, IAB Award, State Stage (IAB/MA) and National Stage · IAB Brasil awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2023 · Winner, 9th Tomie Ohtake AkzoNobel Architecture Award awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2020 · Arcanjo Culture Award, Visual Arts Category · Teatro Sérgio Cardoso & Secretaria da Cultura (featuring the team for scenography at architect studio Carmela Rocha) ↗ .
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NOMINATIONS & SHORTLISTS
Selected Nominations & Shortlists featuring projects developed by Estúdio Flume,, where Marina worked as part of the team.
2025 · Shortlisted, Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award, 7th Edition awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2024 · Nominated, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize · IIT College of Architecture, Chicago awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2024 · Finalist, XXIV Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito (BAQ) awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
2022 · Nominated, Swiss Architectural Award · Fondazione Teatro dell'Architettura, Mendrisio awarded to Estúdio Flume ↗ .
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Exhibitions featuring projects developed by
Estúdio Flume,, where Marina worked as part of the team.
2026 · Chicago Architecture Biennial (during preliminary proposal) · work by Estúdio Flume ↗ ·
2025 · Invited Laureate, Biennale d'Architecture et de Paysage d'Île-de-France (BAP!) · Versailles · work by Estúdio Flume →catalog
2023 · 9th Tomie Ohtake AkzoNobel Architecture Award — Selected Works, Instituto Tomie Ohtake · São Paulo (May–July 2023) · work by Estúdio Flume →catalog
2019 · Todo Dia / Everyday, 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo · CCSP and Sesc 24 de Maio · work by Estúdio Flume→catalog
PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH
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Entre
Landscape as the Spatialization of Time: The Case of Guarapiranga. Graduation thesis, Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, 2021. Advisor: Carolina Tonetti.
The research investigates the Guarapiranga reservoir as a landscape shaped by overlapping temporalities, reading territory not as a fixed image, but as a spatial expression of ecological, infrastructural, social, and political time.
Arquitetura de muitas mãos
Architecture of Many Hands: Notes on Participation, Exchange, and Authorship in Projects with Community Groups.Postgraduate monograph, Architecture, Education and Society, Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, 2025. Advisors: Carol Tonetti and Maira Rios.
The research discusses participatory design as a pedagogical practice, examining how knowledge is exchanged throughout different stages of architectural design and construction. Through three case studies developed with community groups, the work reflects on listening, mediation, self-construction, and collective authorship, drawing on Paulo Freire, Jacques Rancière, Jorge Larrosa, Vera Pallamin, and Donna Haraway. Rather than understanding the architect as a central author, the monograph frames architectural practice as a field of shared learning, where technical knowledge, situated experience, and community intelligence are continuously negotiated.
PRESS
Selected publications featuring projects developed by Estúdio Flume, where Marina 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-BoschMarch
2023 · Cultured Magazine, "Young Architects 2023"→: "Architecture Studio Estudio Flume Builds Community Before Anything Else" · by Emma Leigh MacDonaldFebruary (print and online)
2023 · Wallpaper*→, "Palm Court" · by Ellie StathakiJuly issue 2023 · Revista Projeto→, Edição Especial Espaços de Ensino, "Escola Rural Bom Jesus" · November
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