Danniely Staback Rodríguez

Danniely Staback Rodríguez is a designer and architect based in Rhode Island, with independent collaborations and built projects in Mexico and Puerto Rico. Her teaching centers on the critical deployment of fabrication and digital design technologies as vehicles for the collective exploration of the modern and the vernacular. Her research focuses on the consequences of the built object and its transcendence in our social interactions as it folds in production chains, exchanges of value and the promise of our shared fulfillment. In the wake of the climate crisis, she has been involved in disaster responses, reconstruction, and education efforts centered in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, lecturing in various symposiums and conferences.

Staback Rodríguez received her Bachelor’s in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico, and her Masters in Architecture from MIT, where she received the Alpha Rho Chi medal and served as a teaching fellow. She was also recipient of the Fountainebleu Schools Award and the Schlossman Research Award.

Danniely has taught design studios and seminars at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the Cooper Union, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and others. She is a licensed architect in the state of Massachusetts, and has led cultural and institutional, award-winning projects as Senior Architect at STUDIO ENÉE. Previously, she also worked at Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Snohetta and Diaz Paunetto Arquitectos. She is part of ResilientSEE-PR and the Voluntariado de Ingenieros y Profesionales de Puerto Rico, and she serves on the advisory board of PRoTECHOS.