Beatrice Galilee

Beatrice Galilee serves as an Advisor to Georgetown on design and architectural matters.  She is a London-born curator, writer and cultural advisor who is internationally recognized for her expertise in global contemporary architecture and design. Ms. Galilee 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. Currently living in New York, Ms Galilee is co-founder and executive director of The World Around, a new platform for contemporary design and architecture that is in residence at the Guggenheim Museum. Beatrice is a visiting professor at Pratt Institute where she lectures on curating.

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.

Between 2006-2009 she served the award-winning architecture editor of Icon Magazine, one of Europe’s leading publications in architecture and design, and is a respected critic: her reviews, profiles and features on contemporary design have been published in a number of international magazines and books as well as daily newspapers.  Ms. Galilee earned her BSc in Architecture from the University of Bath, MA in Architectural History from University College London and PhD in Architecture from the Royal College of Art.