PAOLA ANTONELLI

Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in February 1994 and is a Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. Her first acclaimed exhibition for MoMA, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995), was followed by Thresholds: Contemporary Design from the Netherlands (1996), Achille Castiglioni: Design! (1997- 98), Projects 66: Campana/Ingo Maurer (1999), Open Ends, and Matter (September 2000 - February 2001). Her most recent exhibition, Workspheres (2/8-4/22/2001) was devoted to the design of the workplace of the near future.

The recipient of a Master's degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1990, Paola Antonelli has curated several architecture and design exhibitions in Italy, France, and Japan. She has been a Contributing Editor for Domus magazine (1987-91) and the Design Editor of Abitare' (1992-94). She has also contributed articles to several publications, among them Metropolis, the Harvard Design Review, I.D. magazine, Paper, Metropolitan Home, Harper's Bazaar and Nest.

From 1991 to 1993, Paola Antonelli was a Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she taught design history and theory. In the Spring of 2003, she will teach a course of Design Theory at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has lectured on design and architecture in Europe and the United States and has served on several international architecture and design juries.

Paola Antonelli's goal is to promote design's understanding, until its influence on society and on progress is fully acknowledged. She is currently working on an exhibition entitled Safe; on the next edition of the International Design Conference in Aspen (August 20-23, 2003), similarly entitled Safe: Design Takes on Risk; on a book about foods from all over the world as examples of outstanding design; on a television program on design; and on trying to get a Boeing 747 into the collection of The Museum of Modern Art.