Giovanna Borasi^IT/QC

Giovanna Borasi joined the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2005 as Associate Director of Programs and has held subsequent positions as Curator of Contemporary Architecture (2011-13) and Chief Curator (2014-20) before becoming Director and Chief Curator in 2020. In this role, she oversees the CCA’s curatorial trajectories and processes of institutional revaluation.
Borasi’s work explores ways of doing architecture that challenge the conventional definition of the architect and that lie at the heart of the dialectic between societal and architectural change. She studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano (1996), worked as an editor of Lotus International (1998–2005) and Lotus Navigator (2000– 2004), and was Deputy Editor in Chief of Abitare (2011–2013). Among her recent major projects as a curator are the CCA exhibition and book A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention (2021), and a three-part documentary film series, What It Takes to Make a Home (2019), When We Live Alone (2021), and Where We Grow Older (2023), observing contemporary architecture’s reckoning with salient demographic changes. She regularly contributes to international architectural publications, workshops, university courses, committees, and symposia.