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.

Irina received her B.A. from Princeton University and her M. Arch. from Columbia University. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in Barcelona, Spain. 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.