Biography
Beatrice Galilee is an internationally recognized architecture curator, author and design advisor. She is founder and executive director of The World Around, a New York-based nonprofit platform dedicated to visionary global design and architecture. She is the author of Radical Architecture of the Future, published by Phaidon in 2021, and between 2014-2019 served as the first curator of contemporary architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked on collections, exhibitions and commissions including collaborations with artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Cornelia Parker and Adrián Villar Rojas.
Between 2009–2013, Beatrice Galilee served as chief curator of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale; co-curator of 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, co-curator of 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. In collaboration with Aberrant Architecture, she launched and co-directed The Gopher Hole, an experimental exhibition and project space in East London.
Beatrice's writing career began in 2001 as a contributor to Building Design, and she continues work in architectural publishing, with essays, reviews, journals and newspapers including Wallpaper*, Elle Decor, Icon, Domus and many more.
Beatrice Galilee Advisory
With global experience of design, architecture, publishing, communications and brand-building, Beatrice Galilee Advisory LLC provides cultural, design and architectural advisory support to architects, designers, developers and institutions including:
- Architect & design team selection and advisory
- Competition and award submission strategy
- Narrative development, research and brand positioning
- Creative and cultural partnerships with brands
- Curatorial work including commissions, installations, site-specific work, narrative and monographic exhibitions
- Publishing, essays and editorial strategy
- Public speaking and event moderation
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