Maria r.Perbellini

Co-Founder Pongratz Perbellini Architects

Dean and Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology

NYC, USA

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Geographical scope: 

NYC, USA, Global

Climate Action:

Maria Perbellini is the Dean of the School of Architecture and Design (SoAD) at the New York Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder of Pongratz Perbellini Architects, an award-winning firm internationally recognized and widely published.Under her leadership, SoAD has been at the forefront of public interest and community design, working on multi-scalar projects and climate-responsive proposals to engage marginalized communities and vulnerable environments affected by natural disasters, social and economic inequities.

Examples include: The Italian Virtual Pavilion; the R-Cubed, Best Practices for Community-based and Multidisciplinary, Comprehensive Disaster Response; Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers; Modular Infrastructure Construction in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; Building Resilient Communities in Harlem, NY; Emergency Cores post-hurricane recovery, Puerto Rico; Refugee Housing in Germany;  and Hurricane Sandy Displaced Housing in NYC, among other initiatives. She has focused on collaborations and partnerships: Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Bari, IUAV, PUC Rio, UIC Barcelona, Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York, Consulate General of Denmark in New York, Institute for Future Human Habitat-Tsinghua Shenzhen IGS (in progress), ENEL, Peccioli Research Center, New York City, AIANY Planning and Urban Design, among others). https://blogs.nyit.edu/spotlight_on_urban_design

View all Fall 2020 lectures & events.

(https://www.nyit.edu/files/architecture/SOAD_2021_SpringLecturesAndEvents.pdf).