Brunno Douat is an architect, curator, and researcher
based in Mexico City. Through design, archival research and sustained
collaborations with communities in Brazil and the Ecuadorian Amazon,
his work traces the silent yet cunning ways in which ancestral forms
of life and identity both negotiate with and inscribe themselves within
the planetary material flows of modernity—giving rise to spaces of
negotiation, recognition and endurance.
Contact
+52 55 9334 0968 brunno@brunnodouat.com
Education
Yale School of Architecture (2021—2023, New Haven)
Master of Environmental Design To Open a Clearing: cultivating spacesof endurance in the Upper Amazon
Advisors: prof. Ana Maria Durán Calisto & prof. Keller Easterling
Universidade Federal do Paraná (2012—2018, Curitiba) Bachelor in Architecture, Urban Design and Planning Advisor: prof. Letícia Nerone Gadens Parsons — The New School of Design (2014–2015, New York)
Visiting student at the M.Arch program
Harvard Extension School —
Graduate School of Design (2015, Cambridge)
Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Work
2024-present Eduardo Kohn McGill University
Department of Anthropology
Research Assistant
2023-2024 MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art 12-month curatorial training in the
Architecture and Design Department
Yale School of Architecture
Teaching Fellow Latin American Modernity: Architecture, Art, and Utopia, with prof. Luis Carranza
2022
Yale Tropical Resources Institute (TRI)
Research Fellow
Award: TRI Endowment Fellowship
Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Research Fellow
Award: Walter McClintock Memorial Fellowship for Graduate Students
Yale School of Architecture Teaching Fellow Senior Research Colloquium, with prof. Marta Caldeira
Teaching Assistant Method and Modernism: Contemporary Approaches to the History of Modern Architecture, with prof. Joan Ockman
2019–2021
Museu Paranaense (Curitiba) Architect, and Exhibition Designer
2019–2021
BOMBUS (Curitiba)
Architect and Designer, co-founder with Ingrid Schmaedecke
2017–2021
ATO1LAB (Curitiba)
Architect and Designer
2015
Chibbernoonie (New York)
Trainee
Exhibitions
[Curatorial Work]
Shortlisted Proposal (2026)
Luxembourg Pavilion at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2027. Curator with George Papam, Joëlle Martin and Mike Tully
Upcoming (2026) Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Researcher
Upcoming (2026) Yale School of Architecture Faculty Exhibition
Yale Architecture Gallery Curatorial Assistant
Upcoming (2026) Dien-Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory a83 Curator
2024 Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Researcher
2023 Surfacing — The Civilised Agroecological Forests of Amazonia Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 The Laboratory of the Future Researcher
2022 SOS Brutalism
Yale Architecture Gallery Curatorial Assistant
Brunno Douat is an architect, curator, and researche based in Mexico City. Through design, archival research and sustained collaborations with communities in Brazil and the Ecuadorian Amazon his work traces the silent yet cunning ways in which ancestral forms of life and identity both negotiate with and inscribe themselves within the planetary material flows of modernity—giving rise to spaces of negotiation, recognition and endurance.
Yale School of Architecture (2021—2023, New Haven)
Master of Environmental Design To Open a Clearing: Cultivating Spaces of Endurance in the Upper Amazon
Advisors: Ana Maria Durán Calisto and Keller Easterling
Universidade Federal do Paraná (2012—2018, Curitiba) Bachelor in Architecture, Urban Design and Planning Advisor: prof. Letícia Nerone Gadens Parsons — The New School of Design (2014–2015, New York)
Visiting student at the M.Arch program
Harvard Extension School —
Graduate School of Design (2015, Cambridge)
Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Work
2024-present Eduardo Kohn
McGill University Department of Anthropology
Research Assistant
2023-2024 MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art 12-month curatorial training in the Architecture and Design Department
Yale School of Architecture
Teaching Fellow Latin American Modernity: Architecture, Art, and Utopia, with prof. Luis Carranza
2022
Yale Tropical Resources Institute (TRI)
Research Fellow
Award: TRI Endowment Fellowship
Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Research Fellow
Award: Walter McClintock Memorial Fellowship for Graduate Students
Yale School of Architecture Teaching Fellow Senior Research Colloquium, with prof. Marta Caldeira
Teaching Assistant Method and Modernism: Contemporary Approaches to the History of Modern Architecture, with prof. Joan Ockman
2019–2021
Museu Paranaense (Curitiba) Architect, and Exhibition Designer
2019–2021
BOMBUS (Curitiba)
Architect and Designer, co-founder with Ingrid Schmaedecke
2017–2021
ATO1LAB (Curitiba)
Architect and Designer
2015
Chibbernoonie (New York)
Trainee
Exhibitions
[Curatorial Work]
Shortlisted Proposal (2026) Luxembourg Pavilion at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2027. Curator with George Papam, Joëlle Martin and Mike Tully
Upcoming (2026) Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Researcher
Upcoming (2026) Yale School of Architecture Faculty Exhibition Yale Architecture Gallery Curatorial Assistant
Upcoming (2026) Dien-Dien: To Feel the Other and Weave a Territory a83 Curator
2024 Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Researcher
2023 Surfacing — The Civilised Agroecological Forests of Amazonia Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 The Laboratory of the Future Researcher
2022 SOS Brutalism Yale Architecture Gallery Curatorial Assistant