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 spaces of 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

2022-2024
a83
Curatorial Assistant and Writer

2023
Yale Architecture Gallery
Exhibition Assistant

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.

CV

Projects

brunno@brunnodouat.com

(Upcoming)
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa



July 05, 2026 – January 02, 2027
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art

Architects of Liberation is organized by Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, and Ikem Stanley Okoye, guest curator and associate professor at the University of Delaware; with Mallory Cohen, curatorial associate in the Department of Architecture and Design.

Collaborated as a researcher during the exhibition’s development and contributed as a commissioned writer to the exhibition catalogue.

For more information visit: 
https://press.moma.org/exhibition/architects-of-liberation-modernism-in-western-africa/

Image: Children outside Bolgatanga Library, Ghana. December 1967. Photograph: Willis E. Bell. J. Max Bond Jr. papers, 1955–2009, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. © Mmofra Foundation.