Maria José Marques da Silva

Maria José Marques da Silva (1914–1996) was a Portuguese architect who, like her celebrated father, designed buildings in her native city of Porto.

Together they opened their own business,[2] designing a number of buildings and participating in the urban planning of the city while completing works initiated by Marques de Silva.

After the couple turned to farming in Barcelos in the 1970s, Maria José Marques da Silva continued to participate in the management of the Association of Portuguese Architects, organising their 40th Congress in 1986.

[7] The Foundation, based in the architect's own Residence-Atelier and next to the Lopes Martins family mansion, also occupying a pavilion in the large garden, houses the literary, artistic, architectural and town planning collection of the architects Maria José Marques da Silva and David Moreira da Silva.

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