Padraic Mittag-McNaught

Architect currently living and working in Mexico City, Mexico. Paints, builds cardboard columns, and designs hardware in his free time. Co-founder of VERESTA, Office for Hardware. 



CV

B. 1997
Minneapolis, 
Minnesota
Padraic Mittag-McNaught

@paddydesignsthings
padraicjmm@gmail.com
+1 612 250 3957


EDUCATION

2023  —  2025Yale University School of Architecture 
Masters of Architecture I
               Dean’s Scholarship
               Gertrude B. Class of 1949 Grant
               Building Project Intern Selection (2023)
               H. Feldman Prize Nomination (2024)
    

2016 — 2020St. Olaf College
Bachelor of Arts, Sculpture & Printmaking
               St. Olaf Sustainability Grant (2018)
               Bonde Award for Outstanding Achievement (2020)
               Distinction in Major (2020)    
               Selection for Emerging Artist Residency (2020-2021)



SELECTED EXPERIENCE

2025  — PresentAssociate Architect, Sala Hars
               Mexico City, Mexico    

2023 — 2025
  • Design Assistant, Yale Urban Design Workshop
  •                New Haven, Connecticut, USA

2025


2021 — 2022
  • Architectural Intern, Estudio Pedro Reyes
  •                Mexico City, Mexico

  • Design Intern, Alchemy Architects
  •                St. Paul, Minnesota



SELECTED EXHIBITION

2025
  • Groundwater Earth, Arsenale, Venice Biennale 2025
  •                  Research Assistant 
  •                  c/o Anthony Acciavatti      
  •                  Venice, Italy

  • Building a Planetary Solution Symposium, Yale University
  •                  Research Assistant/Speaker 
  •                  c/o Alan Organschi, BAUHAUS Earth 
  •   New Haven, Connecticut


2024
  • Learning from Berlin (CT), Yale University North Gallery
  •                 Curator, Researcher 
  •                 New Haven, Connecticut

  • Happenings, The Study Gallery
  •                 Paintings featured
  •                 New Haven, Connecticut


2023
  • Artificial Forest, Yale University North Gallery
  •                  Curator, Researcher 
  •                 New Haven, Connecticut


2021
  • Framata, Truckstop Gallery                
  •                Sculpture, prints featured              
  •                Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • Cesura, Northfield Arts Guild                
  •                Sculpture, prints featured              
  •                Northfield, Minnesota