Prof. Dr. Bárbara Rangel is an architect and a researcher at the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) of the Faculty of Architecture and Construct of the Faculty of Engineering, both at the University of Porto in Portugal. She has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) since 2013 and a researcher on the same faculty. She is responsible for DIG@feup, a laboratory dedicated to 3D printing for construction. She received an academic training degree in architecture from the FAUP (1996); a master's degree in building construction from the FEUP (2003); and a PhD in civil engineering from the FEUP (2013). Her main research interests and skills are design theory in architecture, constructive materiality in architecture, integrated project design, 3D and 4D printing for construction, industrial design, and evolutionary housing.