Marta Silveira Peixoto is an architect (1985) with a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from PROPAR (2006), the Architecture Research and Graduate Program of UFRGS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is a full professor at the Department of Architecture and at PROPAR, UFRGS, where she teaches Design and History of Architecture. Acted as Visiting Professor at ETSAB, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, and Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the Chair of DOCOMOMO Brazil, secretary of the Interior Design Committee of DOCOMOMO International, and a member of the 20th Century Committee of ICOMOS Brazil. Since 2023 she is the Assistant coordinator of Architecture and Urbanism at CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, a federal agency linked to the Ministry of Education). She has written for architecture magazines and journals and is one of the editors of DOCOMOMO Brazil Magazine; she coordinates research projects and a research group with professors, graduates, and undergraduate students. Since 2019, she has had a federal productivity grant as a researcher. Maintains research activity focused mainly on Interiors, Modern architecture, and Modern Heritage.