Brian Butterfield is a Senior Exhibition Designer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was Director of Exhibitions at The Yale School of Architecture. He organized the exhibitions Palladio Virtuel (Graham Foundation grant) and Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture (Turner Foundation grant), and the installation of The Piranesi Variations at the Venice Architecture Biennale of 2012 (Graham Foundation grant).
Before founding MAKE | WORK, he worked at Della Valle Bernheimer Architects of Brooklyn, New York, on residential projects, including two that won AIA NY honors. He teaches furniture design and fabrication at Yale. He earned architecture degrees from Washington University in St. Louis (bachelor's, 2004) and the Yale School of Architecture (master's, 2011).