Maria Gabriela Carucci

Gaby is a Venezuelan born architect, researcher and designer currently pursuing a Master of Science in Architecture Studies and Urbanism. Her work is driven by a passion for history and heritage, data narratives and multimedia storytelling.

She believes the intersection of research and design has a crucial part to play in making people aware of the autonomy and agency they can hold in a space, and their responsibility to the environment around them. Lately she has been exploring ways to reframe the anthropogenic narratives that exist in both urban and non-urban landscapes through a series of different mediators, a few of which are pigeons, barricades, flocks of sheep and herds of goats, and volcanoes. 

After graduating from RISD in 2018 with a dual Bachelor degree in Architecture and Fine Arts -with a Concentration in Sustainability Studies- she moved to New York City, where she developed her professional career and worked with different architecture firms. During her time at MIT she has been working with the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and the Civic Data Design Lab, among other collaborations.