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 new vernaculars. Her recent research looked at the potentials of mixed reality for the collective act of designing, developing and making in architecture. 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 (‘13), and her Masters in Architecture from MIT (‘18), where she received the Alpha Rho Chi medal and served as a teaching fellow. She was the recipient of the Fountainebleu Schools Award and the Schlossman Research Award. She was also honored by the Boston Society for Architecture with the Flansburgh Young Designers Award in 2025.

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, the Boston Architectural College, and others. At MIT Architecture, she has recently taught Creative Computation and Design Across Scales and Disciplines, for both graduate and undergraduate students.

She is a licensed architect in the state of Massachusetts, and has led cultural and institutional, award-winning projects in her on-going role as Senior Architect at STUDIO ENÉE (most notably IBA La CASA). Previously, she also worked at Kennedy & Violich Architecture (Hayden Library and Courtyard), Snohetta, Muuaaa Design Studio and Díaz Paunetto Arquitectos. 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