Julianna Cano is a designer, researcher and lecturer based in New York.

She has worked for many notable architects including Snøhetta, Neil Denari, and UNStudio. As a Designer at Snøhetta for nearly five years, she contributed to several cultural and institutional projects including the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library that opened in July 2026, and the UCSF Barbara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building currently in construction. Most recently she led the design for a mixed-use development project, Sweetbird North in the heart of the design district in Miami.

Currently, she a Project Designer at Office JDY in Dumbo, Brooklyn where she is working on international retail and local high-end residential development projects.

She holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she received the Faculty Prize in 2021. Her thesis titled Spectral Minutiae: Delirious Central Park, interrogated the 19th century public park typology and examined society’s outmoded relationship with nature through the lens of the classical garden folly.

Her manifesto, Straddling the Boundary: A Tiny Manifesto, published in the 2022 international conference ACADIA Hybrids & Haecceities, coined the term permeable boundaries as fleeting micro-conditions where dichotomies ranging from the geopolitical to the ideological violently collide. Julianna’s own work is centered around activating these sticky yet timely collisions through the inversion of conventional design processes and production of tiny architectural devices.