Gabriela
Ramos Figueroa

Architecture & Real Estate Development

Bridging design and development — moving between a proforma and a set of drawings without losing sight of either.

Columbia MSRED Columbia M.Arch

About

Design fluency meets
financial precision

I'm a recent Columbia graduate with a dual Master of Science in Real Estate Development and Master of Architecture. My work sits at the intersection of design and development — I pair predevelopment analysis with architectural thinking, moving between a proforma and a set of drawings without losing sight of either.

At AMPOPS, I lead predevelopment analysis for residential and mixed-use projects across New York City, producing feasibility packages with zoning studies, financial modeling, and test-fit programming for projects from 4,000 to 40,000 GSF.

My capstone project, TerraNueva, won the Columbia MSRED competition — a $456.3M, 517-unit affordable housing development on Inwood's waterfront, presented to a jury including Fifth Avenue Committee, Alloy Development, LISC, and NYC Planning Commission.

Bilingual

English & Spanish

NYC

Based in New York

Gabriela Ramos Figueroa

Expertise

Skills & Capabilities

Architecture & Design

  • Autodesk Revit (Certified)
  • AutoCAD (Certified)
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • BIM Coordination
  • Construction Documents
  • Massing & Test-Fits

Real Estate & Finance

  • Financial Modeling & Proformas
  • NYC Zoning Resolution
  • LIHTC / Affordable Housing
  • Market Analysis & Comps
  • Argus Enterprise
  • CoStar / CompStak / ACRIS

Experience

Resume

Columbia graduate with hands-on experience across NYC architecture practice and affordable housing development.

Education

Columbia University

Dec 2025

New York, NY

  • Master of Science in Real Estate Development
  • Master of Architecture

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Dec 2020

Milwaukee, WI

  • Bachelor of Science in Architecture

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Architectural Designer

AMPOPS

New York, NY · May 2024 – Present

Boutique design-build practice. Leading DD on a 57-unit mixed-use building in Brooklyn (R6/C2-4 overlay) with FRESH grocery, and produced DD through 40% CD on a 121,000 SF K–8 school in the Bronx with Perkins Eastman. Delivered 12 zoning + feasibility packages (six commissioned) and CDs for 16 active projects.

TerraNueva — Capstone Winner

Columbia MSRED

New York, NY · Jan 2025 – May 2025

Led zoning, massing, unit mix, and renderings for a 517-unit, 100% affordable mixed-use development on Inwood's waterfront. $456.3M TDC, fully publicly financed via 4% LIHTC, SLIHC, HFA, HPD/HDC ELLA, HCR, and NYSERDA.

Teaching Assistant, Core I Mentor

Columbia GSAPP

New York, NY · Sep 2023 – Dec 2023

Mentored first-semester M.Arch students through design development, coordinated studio reviews, and curated the end-of-semester project exhibition.

Architectural Intern

The Design and Build Group

Wayne, NJ · Apr 2021 – Apr 2022

Prepared full construction drawing sets and code-compliance packages for five residential renovation projects — kitchen expansions, additions, and ADA-compliant upgrades — and produced as-built drawings from field measurements.

Get in Touch

Let's connect

I'm open to opportunities in real estate development and architecture. Let's talk about how design and finance come together to build better cities.

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