Irina Verona, AIA

Principal

Irina Verona is a founding principal of Verona Carpenter Architects and has practiced architecture in New York since 1998. She helps lead the firm with a belief that architecture is critical to creating a physically and socially sustainable future, and she is an adept leader of complex projects across typologies -- including education, workplace, and cultural projects. Irina loves using the drawing process to test solutions to difficult design problems at the detail and big-picture scales. She sees teaching as a critical part of architecture practice and has led design studios and seminars for the last fifteen years at Barnard + Columbia Colleges Architecture Program, including her recent seminar Environments for Inclusion. She won a 2022 grant to study the history and legacy of the inclusive classroom movement. Irina is a founding editor of Praxis: a Journal of Writing and Building and serves on the board of the Chen Dance Center in New York.