Laura del Pino Noriega

Laura del Pino is an architect, educator, and researcher whose work focuses on ecological design, housing, and the relationship between architecture and environmental systems. She holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP, awarded through the Caja España Scholarship, and a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Valladolid in Spain. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the New York Institute of Technology and Kean University’s Michael Graves School of Public Architecture, and a Visiting Lecturer at Wenzhou-Kean University in China. She previously co-taught the collective housing studio at Pratt Institute and has served there as a visiting critic since 2017. She spent fourteen years as a Senior Design Associate at CAZA Architects, where her work on healthcare, public, and community-based projects in the United States and internationally received recognition including multiple Architizer A+Awards, the AR Emerging Architecture Award, and the S.Arch Awards. Her research and teaching explore metabolism, waste, and material cycles in contemporary housing and landscapes through design studios, theory courses, and international design-build workshops and conferences.