Meet The British Notable Curating Architecture And Design At The Met This Spring

A big name in architecture and design is filling a new position at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Beatrice Galillee will be the new curator of architecture and design at The Met, according to Dezeen.

The British curator studied architecture at Bath University and History of Architecture MSc at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where she specialized in city-wide projects and media.

She is a talent with a long list of accolades.

Galilee is currenlty the Chief Curator of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale titled Close, Closer and was a co-curator at the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. She also headed experimental performance design projects Hacked and Afrofuture at Milan Design Week and the co-founder and director of The Gopher Hole, an exhibition and project space in London.

When she wasn't occupied with the above, she lectured at Central Saint Martins at University of Arts London.

Galilee will assume her position as the Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design, named after the museum's chairman, this spring and be part of the expansion that will see the institute move into the building currently occupied by The Whitney.

"This is a new position at the Museum, and a timely appointment that will enhance a vital area of scholarship as we build the collection and plan our programming for the Breuer project," department chairman Sheena Wagstaff said. "We are thrilled to welcome a curator with a reputation for her innovative approach as well as a comprehensive knowledge of the field."

Galilee also served as the Architecture Editor of Icon Magazine from 2006-2009 and is well published internationally on architecture and design.

"Beatrice Galilee will join the staff of our department of modern and contemporary art as it expands to embrace a more global program and mandate," museum director Thomas P. Campbell said. "She brings to the position her strong international experience in the presentation and study of architecture and design-related work."