Alina Paias is a spatial designer, writer, curator, and researcher investigating the systems of architecture production by engaging with a broad range of philosophies. She received her education from the University of São Paulo and the Delft University of Technology, and has worked on the curation, design and production of exhibitions and interior projects in the Americas and in Europe for several arts and architecture institutions.
She was one of the curators for the 2024 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the solo curator for Taking More Than What’s There to Give at VI PER Gallery, in Prague, and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and a member of the 2025 cohort of the Bauhaus Lab programme in Global Modernism Studies at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. She is a 2023 LINA Fellow and a 2025-26 recipient of the Talent Development Grant by the Creative Industries Fund NL. She is a member of the Editorial Team for Footprint, the Delft Architecture Theory Journal. She is currently working on Centering Designing Otherwise.