Giovanna Borasi
Giovanna Borasi is an architect, editor, and curator, and Director and Chief Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), a position she has held since 2020. She joined the CCA in 2005 as Associate Director of Programs and subsequently served as Curator of Contemporary Architecture (2011–2013) and Chief Curator (2014–2020). In her current role, she oversees the CCA’s curatorial trajectories and processes of institutional re-evaluation.
Her work explores ways of practicing architecture that challenge conventional definitions of the architect and of practice, engaging the dialectic between societal and architectural change. Borasi studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, graduating in 1996. She worked as an editor at Lotus International (1998–2005) and Lotus Navigator (2000–2004), and later as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Abitare (2011–2013).
Recent major curatorial projects at the CCA include the exhibition and book A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention (2021); the documentary trilogy What It Takes to Make a Home (2019), When We Live Alone (2021), and Where We Grow Older (2023); and “The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect”, an exhibition and book examining the principles underlying Álvaro Siza’s approach to urban design. Borasi regularly contributes to international architectural publications, workshops, university courses, committees, and symposia.
