Maria Gabriela Carucci

Maria Gabriela Carucci is an architect, researcher, and designer at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) at MIT, where she explores the intersection of urbanism, social and environmental narratives. Her work examines how landscapes—both natural and constructed—mediate histories of extraction, displacement, and resilience through data storytelling and multimedia design. She has contributed to the LCAU’s 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale proposal, the lab’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition, and the Civic Data Design Lab’s migration-focused research.

Her recent personal projects investigate pigeons as urban informants, barricades as ephemeral architectures, pastoral animals as territorial agents, and volcanic geographies as sites of ecological and political flux. 

Gaby’s past experience includes work with professional architecture and research studios in the U.S., Venezuela, Panama and Italy. Her work has been exhibited at MIT’s Wiesner Student Gallery and the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures Biennial in Venice, and she has served as a guest critic at MIT, RISD, Pratt, Boston University, and Syracuse University.

She holds a Master of Science in Architecture Studies in Urbanism (SMArchS) from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture and Fine Arts from RISD. Her research has been recognized with the MIT Arthur Rotch Prize, Council for the Arts at MIT Grants, and the RISD Architecture Studies Travel Award. Her writing and work has been featured in Princeton’s Pidgin Press, MIT’s Out of Frame (OOF) Journal and Brown University’s Urban Journal.