Gabriel Kozlowski

Gabriel Kozlowski is an architect and curator, founding partner of POLES / Political Ecology of Space, a studio for architecture and urbanism based in Rio de Janeiro. He has participated in the curatorial process of several large-scale exhibits, including as head of design and construction for the 2025 Venice Biennale: Intelligens. Natural, Artificial, Collective; assistant curator for the 2021 Venice Biennale: How Will We Live Together?; co-curator of the Brazilian pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale: Freespace; and design curator for the 3rd Biennial Exhibit of the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism: Housing+. Gabriel’s books are Tomorrow Anew (Gryphus, 2023), The World as an Architectural Project (MIT Press, 2020); 8 Reactions for Afterwards (RioBooks, 2019); and Walls of Air (Bienal de São Paulo, 2018). Gabriel runs the podcast Urban Nature, where renowned guests discuss topics around the intersection between humans and the natural environment. At MIT, he held teaching and research positions at the School of Architecture and Planning; the Center for Advanced Urbanism; and the SENSEable City Lab. At Harvard, he is a PhD candidate writing about the history of the urbanization of the Amazon region.