Rose Florian is a Black Puerto Rican architect, artist, and independent researcher with nearly a decade of experience across commercial, residential, transportation, healthcare, and urban design projects. Her practice centers on the intersection of race, colonialism, and feminism as a lens to examine the systems that shape our built environment. She believes in the power of design to challenge hierarchy and create space for those who have been historically misrepresented or marginalized.
Rose holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the founder and principal architect of seen space studios, a
design studio born in New York City with roots in the Caribbean interested in the cultural histories of their clients to draw inspiration for their spaces.