Gabriel Weber

Gabriel Weber (Rio de Janeiro, 1997) is a valedictorian graduate and FCT research fellow at the University of Porto’s Doctoral Programme in Architecture. His thesis project, An Atlantic Third Margin: The Aguda Mosques of the Bight of Benin 1835–1935, awarded the Portuguese Order of Architetes Prize 2024, examines post-slavery architecture through fieldwork in Nigeria and Benin, where he conducted metric surveys of eighteen Agudá buildings with the support of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments of Nigeria, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the École du Patrimoine Africain, and Aguda families and Muslim communities. He is also the author of 474 – JacaréCopacabana, first featured in The Funambulist and later published as books in Spain (Manual de prácticas del autobús – 474 Jacaré Copacabana, No Libros, 2024) and in Brazil (474 – Jacaré Copacabana, Sob Influência, 2025).