︎︎︎Manuel Bouzas
Architecture & Ecologies
MB—AE is a design practice based in Galicia, Spain. It explores the intersection of architecture and ecology through urban installations and design research. Its work examines the relationship between the materials we build with and the territories from which they emerge, with a special focus on timber and forests. Its projects have received support from private and public institutions, including the MITMA Ministry of the Government of Spain, Harvard GSD, Villa Medici—The French Academy in Rome, CHANEL, Arquia Foundation, and AC/E Spanish Cultural Action, among others.
︎︎︎Contact
E: info@mb-ae.es
IG: @manuelbouzas_
W: www.mb-ae.es
︎︎︎Bio
Manuel Bouzas is a Spanish architect, researcher, and educator. He is currently based in Galicia, Spain, and Ithaca, New York, where he teaches at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Manuel is the co-curator of Internalities, the 2025 Spanish Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. His work explores the intersection of architecture and ecology through urban installations and design research. Some of his recent built works include Cabane 7L at Villa Medici—The French Academy in Rome (2024), and the Mediterranean Pavilion at the TAC! Festival in Valencia (2023). Manuel participated in the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023 and 2018, as well as in the Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial in 2021. He has been recognized with the Renzo Piano World Tour Award in 2022, the La Caixa Fellowship in 2021, and the COAM Emerging Award in 2020. Manuel holds an MArch with distinction from ETSAM (UPM) and a Master of Design Studies from Harvard GSD, where he also served as a Teaching Fellow in the Undergraduate Architecture program.
︎︎︎Awards
- 2024, Cornell AAP Design Teaching Fellowship
- 2023, TAC! Festival (1st Prize)
- 2022, Renzo Piano World Tour Award
- 2021, La Caixa Foundation Fellowship
- 2021, 15th BEAU Master’s Thesis Award
- 2020, COAM Emerging Award
- 2017, Concéntrico 03 Festival (1st Prize)
- 2017, SERP Fellowship (UPM—TITECH)
︎︎︎Exhibitions
- 2025, Internalities, 19th Venice Architecture Biennale
- 2024, Forest Futures, Harvard GSD
- 2023, Foodscape, 18th Venice Architecture Biennale
- 2023, COAM Awards: 50th edition, Madrid
- 2022, Ecosistemas.Zip, Sala Amadís, Madrid
- 2022, 15th BEAU Spanish Arch & Urb Biennial, Valladolid
- 2018, Becoming, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale