Danniely Staback Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican academic, designer and licensed architect in Massachusetts. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture (‘13), where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.
She was admitted to MIT SA+P for a master’s in architecture as a Graduate Fellow, and specialized as fab-lab monitor and teaching assistant for multiple courses. After graduating (‘18), she served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for graduate and undergraduate studios and workshops for the Department of Architecture.
She has been involved in various design-build projects, the most notable of which were a housing initiative in Rwanda and a post-hurricane reconstruction effort in Puerto Rico that she continues to develop. She received the Marjorie Pierce / Dean William Emerson Fellowship Award, the Schlossman Research Travel Award for her thesis, and the Alpha Rho Chi medal for leadership and merit. She also completed the Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program.
Her research centers on the critical embrace of fabrication and design technologies as vehicles for both cultural awareness and creative expansion of the modern and the vernacular. Her teaching seeks to problematize 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 collective fulfillment.
She has accrued a broad range of experience through her work at Muuaaa Design Studio, Díaz Paunetto Arquitectos, Block Research Group, Snøhetta, MIT, Kennedy & Violich Architecture in Boston (working on the Hayden Library Renovation and Courtyard), and most recently as an architect at Studio Enée for IBA's Multipurpose Community Arts Center, also in Boston. She is an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union and the RISD Department of Architecture, and has previously taught at the University of Illinois School of Architecture. She is part of ResilientSEE-PR, the Voluntariado de Ingenieros y Profesionales de Puerto Rico, and sits on the advisory board of PRoTECHOS.
dannielystaback@gmail.com //