Maria Tavares [Lisbon, 1970] is an architect who has been practicing since 1994 and is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Lusíada University [FAA/UL], where she has been teaching since 2003. She is a research associate at Design, Architecture and Territory Research Centre [CITAD], ULL, and collaborates with the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism [CEAU], FAUP in the Atlas da Casa group [AdC]. Currently, Maria teaches architectural design studio at the integrated master´s degree and is responsible for the Phenomenology of Architecture seminar of the UL Doctoral Programme. Maria holds a Degree in Architecture [1994], a Master Degree in Residential Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon [FA-UTL/2003] and a PhD in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto [FAUP/2016]. The research focuses on the study of subsidized residential architecture in Portugal, mainly in the second half of the twentieth century, and on the impact that is has had on the transformation of the national panorama. The research also includes understanding the architecture produced by and for the "Habitações Económicas - Federação de Caixas de Previdência" [HE] during its 26 years of activity as a federation of housing promotion, as well as the modes of action of its main actors in a poor country. The PhD thesis was awarded with distinction, and all the mapping and research carried out on the activity of these 26 years of architectural production was duly directed towards editorial projects, at the invitation of the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation, among others, and an I&D project of the Foundation for Science and Technology, in which Maria participated as a researcher. Her area of interest is residential architecture, affordable housing, multi-family housing in urban and rural contexts, and public housing policies.