Bruni, F. Carlotta: - Italian architect born and raised in Milan where she completed her master degree in Architecture at the Politecnico de Milano. She has been working in Macau since 1996, at the beginning as collaborator of MV Lda, since 2006 as partner of VLB Lda. and recently in 2010, as manager partner of LBA, Architecture and Planning Ltd in collaboration with Rui Leão. She earned her PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia.

During her 25 years of practice she designed a wide range of projects in terms of scale as well as program, from planning projects, infrastructure designs, social housing to Interior Design projects, besides her design work she has been in charge of large project teams and coordinated complex construction sites.

She is the winner of the ARCASIA Gold Medal 2006 for Architecture, of the Unesco heritage awards 2012, and of UIA 100 architects of the year 2017, 2018 and 2019. Her work in the field of architecture has been amply published internationally (AD-Architectural Design of London, INTERNI, Architectura e Vida). Her works in the fields of design, architecture and urban design have been exhibited at Salone Satellite of Milan's Salone del Mobile, Experimenta Design /Lisbon Biennale, IDExpo, Concepta, Architecture Triennale (Lisboa), Portugal-live 2005, Tenth International architecture of the Venice Biennale and at the 7th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo..