Gab Brioso is an architect and digital designer whose practice operates between art and design, using spatial thinking to question how technologies shape meaning, behavior, and experience.

Trained in architecture, he works across digital and physical media, often misusing tools, systems, and interfaces to resist predictability and the increasing sterility of contemporary space, especially within digital environments optimized for frictionless interaction. Central to his work is an attraction to weird, exaggerated, and irregular forms. For Gab, form is performative rather than resolved. Its nooks, crannies, and inconsistencies invite exploration, misuse, and multiple interpretations. These formal gestures introduce friction and pause, encouraging people to navigate objects and spaces actively rather than consume them passively.

Alongside this formal inquiry, Gab is interested in how large-scale contemporary conditions, such as hyperconnectivity, digital disinformation, and online intimacy, can be consolidated into tangible artefacts without flattening their complexity. These works function as navigational tools for engaging an increasingly ultra-specific world.

Gab teaches design theory and studio courses in Manila and has exhibited locally and internationally, including at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and Art Fair Philippines. Recent works were presented under Kakakompyuter Mo Yan! at DEMO 2024 in New York and Art Fair Philippines 2025.

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Exhibitions

2025-2026
Studies of the Future
Center for Campus Exhibitions (DLS-CSB)
2025
Art Fair Philippines 2025
Kakakompyuter Mo ‘Yan
2024
The Authenticity Zero
Art Camp, Manila
2024
The Otherness
Grey Space, Manila
2024
DEMO 2024
Kakakompyuter Mo ‘Yan, New York
2024
Art in the Park
The Authenticity Zero Collective - Makati
2023
Distrito
Philippine Women’s University
2023
Art Fair Philippines 2023
Anakbanwa
2022
Anakbanwa Creative Residency Exhibition
Anakbanwa
2022
Real Things in Real Time
Backroom Creative Space, Manila

2022
Sub Liminal
Philippine Women’s University
2022
Ephemera
Philippine Women’s University
2021
Counter-Narratives
Artists 4 Digital Rights Network
2021
St. Lazarus Trilogy
Center for Campus Art (DLS-CSB)
2020-2021
The Authenticity Zero Objects
Art in the Park Online
2019
The Authenticity Zero Collective Launching
The Gateway Gallery, Cubao
2019
10 Years of Benilde Architecture
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
2016
PO.RE - Portfolio Review
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
2016
Architecture = Durable - Manila World Fair 2025
Center for Campus Art (DLS-CSB)
2015
Oxymoron of Patterns
Cultural Center of the Philippines

Pedagogy

2025-Present
Multispace Architecture
De La Salle University
2024-2025
Emergent Architecture (Digital Theory)
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
2023-present
Architectural Design Studio
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
2023-2024
Information Architecture and Digital Product Design
Ateneo de Manila University
2022
Theory of Architecture
Asia Pacific College
2021-2022
Architectural Philosophy (Digital Theory)
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
2021-Present
design foundation
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde

Lectures and Presentations

2025
In Pursuit of the Gesamtkunstwerk
UXPH 2025
2024
The Spatial Digital - Augmented Reality Technology
West Visayas State University
2023
The Spatial Digital - Augmented Reality Technology
West Visayas State University
2022
Visual Rhetorics
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
2021
Object-Oriented Ontology
Soapbox - De La Salle College of St. Benilde
2021
Non-Relational Aesthetics
Center for Campus Art (DLS-CSB), The Authenticity Zero
2019
Architecture and Its Dialectics with History
Intramuros Administration
2017
Design Exploration research
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde

Professional Positions

2025-Present
Globe Telecom
Omnichannel Design Lead
2025-Present
De La Salle University
Professional Lecturer
2021-2025
Make Technology
Senior Interaction Designer
2021-2025
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
Part-Time Faculty
2023-2024
Ateneo de Manila University
Part-Time Faculty
2022
Asia Pacific College
Part-Time Faculty
2021
Dottystyle Creatives
Digital Designer
2021
h1 aRCHITECTURE
Designer / Design Researcher
2021
Joey Yupangco + Associati
Part-time Designer / Design Researcher

Education

2021-2023
Philippine Women’s University
Masters in Fine Arts and Design
2020
Zuitt Code
Post-Graduate Course in Web Design and Development
2012-2017
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Cum Laude
2015
The Brown Bauhaus - Alternative School of Design
METAARCH - Advanced Design Poetics Course
2008-2012
Paranaque Science High School
Secondary Education

Workshops and Community Engagements

2023
Immersive Technologies Today
St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
2022
Anakbanwa Creative Residency Program
Dagupan, Pangasinan
2022
Digital Affordances: A Primer on Interaction Design and Augmented Reality
Anakbanwa Creative Residency Program

Research and Publications

2022-2023
The Post-human Aesthetics of the Digital Disinformation Hyperobject: An Exploration on Art and Design’s Stakes in Addressing Digital Disinformation in the Philippines
Brioso, Gabriel. 2022. "The Disinformation Hyperobject: Art and Design’s Stakes in Demystifying Disinformation in the Philippines." MFAD Research Paper., Philippine Women’s University, 2022.
2022
The Disinformation Hyperobject: Art and Design’s Stakes in Demystifying Disinformation in the Philippines
Brioso, Gabriel. 2022. "The Disinformation Hyperobject: Art and Design’s Stakes in Demystifying Disinformation in the Philippines." MFAD Research Paper., Philippine Women’s University, 2022.
2022
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Future of Art and Design and its Zeitgeist
Brioso, Gabriel. 2022. "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Future of Art and Design and its Zeitgeist." MFAD Research Paper., Philippine Women’s University, 2022.
2021
Disinformation Interface - Counter-Narratives
Brioso, Gabriel, "The Disinformation Interface," Augmented Reality Object, 2021, Artists for Digital Rights Network, In Counter-Narratives, by A4DRN, pages 46-63, n.p.: Artists for Digital Rights Network, 2021.
2018
Evening Permutations
Brioso, Gabriel, "Evening Permutations," Text and Images, 2018, The Authenticity Zero Collective, In Sabi-sabi Architecture Journal, by The Authenticity Zero Collective, n.p.: TAZC, 2019.
2017
20 Echoes and _Silences: An Anti-Traditionalist Design Polemic Against Revivalism in Intramuros
Brioso, Gabriel. 2017. "20 Echoes and _Silences: An Anti-Traditionalist Design Polemic Against Revivalism in Intramuros." BS-Arch Diss., De La Salle - College of St. Benilde, 2017.