Veronica Rosado Perez

Veronica Rosado Perez was born and raised in Rincon, Puerto Rico. At the age of 17 she moved to San Juan to do a bachelor’s degree in environmental design, with a minor in Audiovisual Communications. During her years in college, she worked on several design projects with student led organizations, small companies and startups ranging from graphic design to architecture to videography to research. As she was growing professionally, quickly after graduation she became a designer at MUUAAA Design Studio, a small design agency where she worked on several small construction projects and the Puerto Rico Pavillion for the London Design Biennale. Living in San Juan for 8 years, and working in Santurce for about two years, increased her interest in the urban quality of life, accessibility to the city and public space. These experiences led her to become interested in an interdisciplinary approach to architecture involving people-oriented design and planning. While her main interests have been around the relationship between humans, ecology and design, her latest research through the architecture thesis has focused on the rehabilitation, reusing and recycling of building materials and components through the processes of material mining, disassembling, and repairing. At UPenn, she completed a dual degree in Architecture and City Planning from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. She has received several recognitions for her academic work, among them the Atkin Fellowship, the Walter R. Leach II fellowship, and the Will Morris Mehlhorn Prize. Recent publications including her work are “Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing” and “Pressing Matters”.