Marysol Rivas Brito
Marysol Rivas Brito is a Brazilian architect and urbanist, currently pursuing a Master Degree in Architecture II at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Born in São Paulo, where she received her Bachelor degree in Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo (FAUUSP), she also studied one year at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). Her Bachelor thesis was a research and design proposal about the correlations between music and architecture.
During her studies at Harvard, Marysol was granted with the Yucatán Initiative Fellowship and the Harvard-Brazil Research Fund. Currently she is working as Research Assistant for the Harvard Mellon Initiative, as a Teaching Assistant at the GSD, is a part of the directive of the Latin GSD, and is developing her thesis about the built environment at the Brazilian Amazon.