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Claudia D'Auria is an architectural designer and artist. She is a participating member of Virocode, a collaborative practice that explores the balance between the inorganic and the organic through an artmaking practice that seeks to capture and reveal blossoming inorganic life.

Her research and design work has focused on the application of biomaterials and regenerative design processes. Her project in collaboration with Terreform One has been published in DesignBoom, received support from the National Endowment of the Art, and won awards such as Green Good Design and Fast Company.

She has exhibited artwork at MOMA in New York City, MOMA PS1 in Queens, New York, YoungArts Jewel Box Gallery in Miami, Florida, and Box Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Claudia graduated with a BArch degree from The Cooper Union in New York and was a resident artist at AZ West studio in Joshua Tree where she completed a thesis on the cultural impact of the colonial myth of 'wilderness.' Claudia has worked for the Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time, Imagination of Space House on Governors Island, and Eric Forman Studio.