Beatrice Galilee is founder and executive director of The World Around, a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to impactful 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.
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. Between 2010-2012 she launched and co-directed The Gopher Hole, an experimental exhibition and project space in London.
With global experience of design, architecture, publishing, communications and brand-building, Beatrice 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 direction
- Curatorial work including commissions, installations, site-specific work, narrative and monographic exhibitions
- Publishing, essays and editorial strategy