Maria E. Pérez Benavides is a Columbia GSAPP M. Arch student expected to graduate in Spring 2021. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Northeastern University. Currently, she is working at the GSAPP Housing Lab developing solutions for affordable, resilient, and adaptive housing. The Lab is a locus for testing and demonstrating methods of practice-based scholarship and pedagogy.

She has worked at Future Expansion Architects, Anmahian Winton Architects, and Handel Architects.

contact: mep2207@columbia.edu