Our approach
Linea Atelier, founded by architects Sara Baldassi and Daniel A. Robles, boasts over 20 years of experience in architecture and lighting design. Our mission is to create value through architecture, generating order, balance, emotion, beauty, and a sense of belonging. We provide unique, pragmatic design solutions that bridge aesthetics and technical reasoning, resulting in spaces tailored to each client's specific needs while being sensitive to their context, environment, culture, and society.
We customize architectural solutions for each project's unique challenges. By listening, analyzing, and thoroughly evaluating client expectations and site context, we establish a solid foundation for our design strategies. We define space clearly and prioritize quality, resulting in a timeless, elegant aesthetic.
The team
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Arch. Daniel A. Robles
AIA, CAAPPR
Born in California, Daniel completed his architectural studies at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Daniel is a licensed architect with Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico and has vast experience working on governmental and public projects as he served the Municipality of Bayamon for over 10 years as an architect and designer.
He is an active member or the CAAPPR community and offers conferences about licensing process to young architects in training.
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Arch. LD. Sara Baldassi
ASSOC. IALD, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATE AIA, OAR
Born in Rome, Sara received her architecture degree from the Universitá degli Studi di Roma and her Master's degree in Lighting Design & LED Technology from the Polytechnic University of Milano. She worked in firms both in Italy and New York before returning to Puerto Rico to manage architectural and lighting design projects both internationally and nationally.
Passionate about finishes, millwork, and details, Sara is a board-certified architect in Italy, as well as a trained lighting designer and part of the professional directory of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) .
She is also a professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture where she teaches the Lighting Design course.
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Marcos Santana
JUNIOR ARCHITECT
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
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Frances Morales
OFFICE MANAGER
“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”.
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Nicolás Machado Núñez
LIGHTING DESIGNER
“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.”