Cynthia Carbajal

Design Intern

Cynthia Carbajal is a Design Intern at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP. At [bc], she supports the organization’s efforts through mapping and visual storytelling, contributing to projects that respond to issues of equity.
As part of her undergraduate experience, Cynthia collaborated with neighbors along the Santa Fe Trail in Dallas to design and build an installation that responded to the layered history of the site and reflected community voices. She has also spent time in Fairview, Alaska, working alongside community members to better understand the ongoing housing crisis and its impact on residents. These conversations shaped a proposal for a workforce development center that connects housing affordability with local labor and materials. In parallel, her honors thesis explored storytelling in architecture, combining research on film and the built environment to examine how design can convey social dynamics and lived experience through form, sequence, and spatial composition.

Across her work, Cynthia is drawn to architecture as a political tool to uplift communities and amplify the stories that shape people and place. She holds an Honors Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington and will begin the Master of Architecture program at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2025.