Ingrid Schmaedecke (she/her) is a Brazilian architect and designer based in New York City. She has extensive experience in wayfinding, interior, exhibit and book design, and has worked in projects for private clients and cultural institutions in Brazil, Europe, Asia, and the United States.


Work

currently at 2x4 (New York, US)
Isometric Studio (New York, US)
Museu Paranaense (Curitiba, BR)
Ato1Lab (Curitiba, BR)
N8Studio (Curitiba, BR)
Estúdio Leandro Garcia (Curitiba, BR)
VMX Architects (Amsterdam, NL)


Education

Graphic Design MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), 2023
Architecture & Urban Design/Planning BA at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), 2017
Interior Architecture BA at Royal Academy of Art, the Hague (KABK), as an exchange student, 2013–14


Teaching

Instructor Experience in Space (Parsons, 2024)
Instructor Typography Elective (RISD, 2023)
TA Exhibit Design (RISD, Doug Scott, 2023)
TA Graduate Typography 3 (RISD, Doug Scott, 2022)
TA Design Studio 2 (RISD, Aasawari Kulkarni, 2022)
Instructor Trajectory & Tragedy: an academic catharsis through Hejduk’s Nine Square Problem (with Brunno Douat at PUC Joinville, Brazil, 2018)
TA Architectural Design, (UFPR, Sergio Tavares & Marina Oba, 2017)