Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli ( born May 13, 1963 in Sassari, Sardinia) is an Italian architect and museum curator.

Life

Antonelli graduated in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1990 with the title from Laurea. You have not worked as an architect but has curated several exhibitions in the sequence with the subject of design in Italy, France and Japan. During her studies, she worked in the Italian magazine Domus. She was also editor of Abitare in design at the magazine.

Antonelli was until 1994 a lecturer in Theory and History of Design at the University of California, Los Angeles before it was in February 1994 as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ) in New York City. Since 2007 she has been Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA.

Antonelli is also responsible for the purchases of the MoMA in design and has initiated purchases of creations by designers such as Richard Sapper, Dieter Rams, Ingo Maurer, Philippe Starck, Kenji Ekuan or of posters by graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister for the museum.

For various magazines such as Harper 's Bazaar, Metropolis, Metropolitan Home, The Harvard Design Review, etc. Antonelli writes articles about design. She is married and lives in New York.

Curated Exhibitions (selection)

Teaching

In the years 2002-2007 Antonelli taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Theory and History of Design. Since 2009 she has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Awards

• 2010: Lucky Strike Designer Award from the Raymond Loewy Foundation -

Publications

• 2005: Safe: Design Takes on Risk. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, ISBN 0-87070-580-6.

• 2008: Editor Andrew yarn, with Udo Kultermann: World's Fairs 1933-2005: architecture, design, graphics. German publishing house, Munich, ISBN 978-3-421-03696-4.