Sonia Sobrino Ralston
2025-2026 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Sonia Sobrino Ralston is a designer, researcher, and educator. She is currently the Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Educated as a landscape architect and architect, her projects examine the ways that plants and information systems collide and the broader ramifications this has socially, politically, and spatially. Sonia has taught interdisciplinary studios and seminars on environmental topics at the graduate and undergraduate level at Northeastern University as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Landscape Architecture and Art + Design, and as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sonia holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, a Master of Architecture with a certificate in Media + Modernity from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in architecture, urban studies, and human geography from the University of Toronto. She was awarded the Architectural League Prize in 2024 as part of the design and editorial collective Office Party, and she served as the assistant curator for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale. Her writing has been published in Building Metabolism (2025), Architecture and Progress (2025), cover me softly (2024), Avery Review (2023), CARTHA Magazine (2020), and Urban Transformations (2017), among others. Her design work—which currently takes the form of digital media and installation—has been exhibited internationally, including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2025), the Beta – Timișoara Architecture Biennial (2024), the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University (2024), Data Through Design (2024), the Harvard Arts First Festival (2022), and the São Paulo Architecture Triennale (2019).