Danniely Staback Rodríguez

Danniely Staback Rodríguez is a designer, academic, and architect from Puerto Rico, licensed in Massachusetts. 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.

Staback obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico. She was admitted to MIT for a M.Arch degree as a Graduate Fellow and later became a Teaching Fellow. She has accrued a broad range of experience through her practice, research, and teaching at MIT, UIUC, RISD, the Cooper Union, the BAC, Block Research Group, Snøhetta, KVA MATx, and currently as a project architect at Studio Enée. She is also part of ResilientSEE-PR and the Voluntariado de Ingenieros y Profesionales de Puerto Rico, and she serves on the advisory board of PRoTECHOS.