Filipa Alfaro

Filipa Alfaro’s journey has been between architecture and art.

When her studio work took up a lot of her time but gave her little, her lifelong passion for art led her to a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies. And from then on, she never stopped. Between designing exhibitions, catalogs and production, there are more than seven jobs, including working directly with visual artists.

A journey made without plans, hitched to the music of Patti Smith, Bruno Pernadas, Kamasi Washington, Phillip Glass and Rita Lee.

In this series of interviews, we talk to architects who haven’t followed the traditional path of the profession: with one foot in architecture, their professional activity has found fertile ground in other creative fields. We navigate between expectations and archetypes: we try to understand how a degree in architecture made an alternative career path possible, how this “transition” took place and where this matrix still manifests itself in their daily activity.
We talk in the workspace of each guest, who also chooses the soundtrack, between the music they listen to while working or simply the music they can’t stop listening to.