Isabel Vincke is a Portuguese architect based in Porto. She started studing architecture in ESAP, in Porto and finished her bachelor in 2009. Afterwards, she went to Cottbus, Germany to do her master in the BTU-Cottbus, Germany.




In 2011 she volunteered with an ONG in Tiraque, Bolivia. Inspired by this experience, she decided to do her master project on this cause, allowing local people to use her project and build it. In 2012 she finished her master with Honors.

During her master at the BTU-Cottbus she worked as an Assistant Teacher (2010-2011) participating in a project on the evolution of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, called „Bauphasen und Bauverlauf der romanischen Kathedrale von Santiago de Compostela“.

In 2012 she coordinated and organized a workshop between ESAP-Porto and BTU-Cottbus: "the outside is always an inside", the meaning of architecture and the plasticity implied in different materialities.

During 2012-2013 Isabel worked at OODA, an Porto based architectural office, entering competitions such as the "Bavarian History Museum in Regensburg, Deutschland", the "Central Mosque of Pristhina, Kosovo" and the FIRST PRIZE awarded project “House for the Future in Porto”.

She also collaborated at aNC Arquitetos, an Porto based architectural office, working on the execution project "Comunitary Center in Maia, Portugal" in 2012.

In 2013 she moved to São Paulo, Brasil, to work with Paulo Mendes da Rocha at Metro Arquitetos, on the competition for the new “Axel-Springer Campus in Berlin”.

Afterwards Isabel returned to Berlin where she worked at J.Mayer H. Architekten participating in different projects and competitions such as the “RKM Düsseldorf – Residential Skyscraper” and the FIRST PRIZE awarded project “Volt Berlin”. (2013-2014)

Isabel came back to Portugal in 2014 to work at ANARCHLAB, an Porto based architectural office, where she took part on several rehabilitation projects in the historic center of Porto.

In 2014 she founded Isabel Vincke Arquitetura.