Tania Branquinho

Tania Branquinho is an educator, artist, and designer with over 20 years of experience in architecture and interior design. Prior to forming bN-studio, she worked with a number of international architecture studios, including Rafael Viñoly Architects. Her professional experience ranges from art installations to large-scale projects in residential, retail, hospitality, corporate, institutional, and transportation fields.

Her current research examines the physiological, psychological, cultural, historical, and environmental relationships between water, the interior built environment, and wellbeing. Drawing on advances in neuroscience, she explores how interiors can reframe our relationship to water and our understanding of it as a finite natural resource. She also investigates the integration of physical computing in interior environments through the co-developed class “Interactive Installation Design.” Her collaborations with NGOs in Brazil, addressing the housing crisis, inclusivity, and urban agriculture, continue to shape the attention to equity she brings to all of her research.

Outside of research and practice, Tania is a surfer whose time in the water informs her work. She is a member of Making Waves Coalition, supporting stewardship of the ocean and the environment, and a Glider with The Ocean Is Female, a surf therapy organization whose focus on water and wellbeing parallels her research.

Tania is a recipient of the American Institute of Architects Eleanor Allwork Scholarship and was awarded the Pratt Institute Award of Excellence.

B.F.A. Interior Design, New York School of Interior Design; M.Arch., Pratt Institute.