Danniely Staback Rodriguez

Danniely Staback Rodríguez is a designer, academic and architect 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’s School of Architecture. She was admitted to MIT for a MArch degree as a graduate fellow and later became a teaching fellow. She has accrued a broad range of experience through her professional work at Muuaaa Design Studio, Díaz Paunetto Arquitectos, Block Research Group, Snøhetta, KVA MATx and currently as a project architect at Studio Enée. She has taught at different levels at MIT, UIUC, the Boston Architectural College, the Cooper Union and most recently at Columbia University’s GSAPP. In 2024, she was a nominee for the Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching at RISD and received a Faculty Development Fund grant. 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.