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Maria José Marques da Silva

In her will, she provided funding for the University of Porto to establish the José Marques da Silva Institute.

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In 1943, she became the first woman to graduate as an architect from the Porto School of Fine Arts.

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José Marques da Silva

The estate of Marques da Silva was bequeathed to the University of Porto by Maria José Marques da Silva (1914–1994) and David Moreira da Silva (1909–2002), his daughter and son-in-law, themselves also architects, through the creation of the Marques da Silva Institute.