Andrea Melgarejo de Berry

Biography

Andrea Melgarejo de Berry is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, in Paraguay and master’s degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Her career and educational interests have always been in the exploration of different scales of architecture, seeking to improve livability of communities through the practice of thoughtful design and the making of it. She became a licensed architect in Paraguay in 2008 and founded her own architecture and construction firm in Asunción. She works independently as well as in collaboration with other architects on a variety of building projects ranging in scale from interior design to commercial, residential, and planning design and construction. She also participated in several design competitions and curated numerous exhibitions. Her current work focuses on teaching design classes at the undergraduate and graduate level at the Illinois School of Architecture, as well as practicing architecture designing and building projects in the US and Paraguay.