Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio is a Puerto Rican architect, scholar-activist, co-founder/director of taller Creando Sin Encargos (tCSE), adjunct professor and Ph.D. candidate in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She completed a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies and is working in a certificate in Latin American Studies from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Her scholarship addresses the relationship between architecture, education, media, and territory, focusing on pedagogical experiments of architecture in Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a Master in Design Studies (MDes) in History and Theory of Architecture from Harvard GSD, a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MArch) and a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Design (BED) from the Universidad de Puerto Rico’s School of Architecture.
Prior to GSD, Yazmín was the Chair of the department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design (2014-2018) and Assistant Professor (2014-2022) at the Universidad Ana G. Méndez. She has taught at Harvard GSD (2022); New York Institute of Technology (2005-2009); Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico (2010-2014); Elisava Escola Universitària de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona (Smart City Program 2012); Universidad de Puerto Rico (2012-2013); Inter American University of Puerto Rico (2012-2014) where she was a Professor and the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Arts in Design; Design Discovery at Harvard GSD (2005); and Cornell University (2000).
Yazmín is the recipient of the American Association University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year. Her research has been supported by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and she was the recipient of the Harvard Frederick Sheldon Fellowship and the Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowship in 2022, and the Racial, GSD Equity, and Anti-Racism Fund for Archive IN/IN: International Intersectional Feminism in 2023.
