ABOUT VICTOR
Victor Sant’Anna was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design where he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree and was awarded the Henry Adams Metal from the AIA. In 1999 he graduated with distinction from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with a Masters in Architecture and Urban Design. The following year he spent in Spain on a Fulbright Scholarship.
He has practiced architecture at the office of Machado and Silvetti as part of the project team for the Scully Dormitory and the Master Plan for Princeton University. He has also worked for Office dA on the Infrastructure for the Tropics project in Miami, Florida. In Washington he practiced architecture at Shalom Baranes Associates, working on The Odyssey residential tower and The Woodward and Lothrop Building as well as Schlesinger Associates on the Three Tree Flats and Jacobsen Architecture. He is licensed in Maryland, Virginia and The District of Columbia. Victor Sant’Anna has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Catholic University of America and Lecturer at Northeastern University, as well as a teacher at the Graduate School of Design Career Discovery program.
Sant’Anna Associates was formed in the Spring of 2007. Project highlights include the renovation and expansion of a seven unit building at 3310 Mount Vernon Avenue in the Delray district of Alexandria, Virginia; space planning for The Nature Conservancy headquarters, providing a new lobby, gallery and outdoor amenities; design of Laurel Park, Chevy Chase, Maryland, providing new pathways, pedestrian bridge and small playground adjacent to Town Hall. Sant’Anna Associates has also provided planning services for The Conservation Fund and the town of Vienna, Maryland. To date, the firm has completed over twenty small to medium residential projects, including full renovations and expansions in Tenleytown, Adams Morgan and Georgetown. Sant’Anna Associates has also provided design services for two low income housing tax credit applications, the first for Riverdale Woods Apartment, a 142 unit age-inplace residential building, and the second at Capitol Heights, a multi-block, mixed use proposal along Southern Avenue in Prince Georges County, Maryland. He currently lives in Tarrytown, New York with wife Sara Elliott and his children Oscar and Gustavo. He is a member of the AIA and licensed in New York, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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