Isabella Leite Trindade is a Ph.D. architect, interior designer, and educator whose research focuses on architectural history, theory, and criticism with a particular emphasis on mid-century modern architecture and interiors in the years following World War II. Her interdisciplinary analysis emphasizes cultural influences from Europe and North America in the making of buildings and interiors in Brazil. In addition to receiving a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), she holds a M.Arch from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), a Postgraduate Coursework (Cours d'Études Approfondies en Architecture-CEAA) - Architecture, City, Heritage and Development: Disruptions and Continuities from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux (France), and a B. Arch from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil).
Currently, Trindade is a full-time professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, where she has also been active as a critic and researcher, and has taught a range of courses on the history and theory of Architecture, Interiors and Furniture, and Design Studio. Her research interests include modern architecture, contemporary architecture, Latin America architecture, and architecture theory.