NAYELI HENRIQUEZ

Latin-american designer with an academic background in architcture.

Based in Brooklyn, New York.
Originally from Arlington, Texas.

[nayelighenriquez@gmail.com]

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RESUME

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor’s of Architecture
2018 - 2023

Uplift Summit International Preparatory
Graduated Suma Cum Laude
2014 - 2018

Employment

Pink Sparrow
Designer
2024 - Present
Junior Designer
2023-2024

Fisher Marantz Stone
Lighting Design Intern
2022

WCGS Architects
Architectural Design Intern
2021

RPI School of Architecture Website Team
Student Team Leader
2022 - 2023
Website Editor
2021-2022

Research + Teaching

Modular Minimum Home
Undergraduate Research Project
2022

Course Assistant
Integrated Design Studio
Professor Florencia Vetcher
2022

Course Assistant
Architectural Case Studies
Professor Gustavo Crembil
2021

Skills

Modeling Software - Rhino 3D, Autodesk [Revit, AutoCAD, Maya], Grasshopper

Graphic Representation - Autodesk [Revit, AutoCAD], Adobe Suite [Illustrator, InDesign]

Rendering Software - Vray, Enscape, Adobe Suite [Photoshop]

Languages - English, Spanish

Last Updated 25.11.12

SELECTED WORK

5. City of Lost Ecologies: Greetings from Las Vegas

Student Work
Professor: Chirs Perry
Architectural Thesis
Spring 2023

This project imagines a possible future for Las Vegas, Nevada by responding to the increasingly dire challenges of climate change in ways simultaneously extrapolative and fantastical, utopian and dystopian. Rooted in self-sustaining technologies and the noble aspiration of revealing newly promising opportunities for the built environment, the project nevertheless remains paradoxically fantastical in its own skepticism.

This project imagines a possible future for Las Vegas, Nevada by responding to the increasingly dire challenges of climate change in ways simultaneously extrapolative and fantastical, utopian and dystopian. Rooted in self-sustaining technologies and the noble aspiration of revealing newly promising opportunities for the built environment, the project nevertheless remains paradoxically fantastical in its own skepticism. To this extent, and in terms of questions related to the figurative ground of architecture, the proposal not only draws upon science fiction as an extra-architectural influence in re-imagining Las Vegas but Derrida’s theory of hauntology as well. As such, the project preserves the city’s current culture of escapism while radically re-imagining it for a not-too-distant future.

[Full Thesis Presentation]