Luís Carlos Bucha (Lisbon, 1992) is a Lisbon-born Portuguese qualified architect since 2019, a PhD student in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at Lusíada University, Lisbon [FAA-ULL], and a research fellow at the Research Centre in Territory, Architecture and Design (CITAD) at Lusíada University, Lisbon. In 2023, Luís was granted a PhD research scholarship and began working at CITAD. At this research centre and within the Architecture and Urbanism Research Group, Luís is a member of several research projects, such as "Architecture and Transdisciplinarity [ArT]"; "Meta-Baroque: Towards an Architecture of a Future [metA]"; "Mapping the Architectural Inter-Relationships between Portugal and Japan in an International Context [JAPOm]"; and also "Filming Álvaro Siza [FILMs]".

As a PhD student, his research aligns with the inter- and transdisciplinarity of architecture, with a particular interest in understanding the transversal and interconnected nature of architecture, cognitive neuroscience and philosophy, through phenomena such as empathy, embodiment and emotion. Luís holds an M.Arch degree in Architecture from the Lusíada University, Lisbon (2018).