Lucas De Mello Reitz
- Associate Lecturer
- Interior Design MA
Lucas Reitz (he/him) is an architect, multimedia researcher and educator whose practice interweaves photography, archive-building, and spatial pedagogy to construct queer and critical perspectives in architecture.
He holds a degree in Architecture from UDESC-Brazil and Universidad de Sevilla, a MPhil in Urbanism, History and Architecture of the City from UFSC, with further studies in Curating Public Art at HDK-Valand in Sweden.
In 2021, Lucas founded muq, a transdisciplinary platform dedicated to curation, pedagogy, and archives experimentation. Through muq and his independent practice, his photography, editorial content, and scholarly texts have been featured in leading platforms such as OASE, Celeste, Vitruvius, Failed Architecture, ArchDaily, and Dezeen, and at institutions including La Escuela_MALBA+Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Centro Cultural Marieta and The Wrong Biennale.
As an educator, Lucas has taught across architecture programs at the State and Federal Universities of Santa Catarina in Brazil, and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Belgium. He is engaged in collective advocacy as a member of Architecture Bicha, a Brazilian queer architecture collective, and a titular member of the Brazilian Institute of Architects (IAB), serving as 2025’s IAB/SC Awards Manager.
He is a two-time recipient of the Elisabete Anderle Award—honored both for the cultural curation project Paralela, and for Paisagem Tendencia, a multimedia research project and short film analysing the visual contradictions of Brazil’s skyscraper capital, Balneário Camboriú. Recently, he received an Honourable Mention in the national competition for CAU-Brazil’s new visual identity.