Maria MacDonald (she/her) is a practicing interior architect and Program Director of Interior Architecture at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She specializes in adaptive reuse, preservation, and restoration projects.
With over 25 years of experience, she partners her professional practice with her teaching. Throughout her career, she has been a team leader for many significant community projects. As an educator, her intense focus is on service and community outreach, providing community-based, experiential learning opportunities for her students and the people in the communities where they work.
She is a graduate in both Architecture and Interior Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design where she received the Excellence in Design award for her work on the “Reclamation of Forgotten Spaces.”
Maria is a founding faculty member of Marywood University’s School of Architecture and has served as the Interior Architecture Program Director for the past 15 years. She has steered the program successfully through two full NASAD accreditations.
With her integrative, holistic design approach, she works to strengthen the relationships between the allied design disciplines and the people and environments where we live.
