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Giovanna Borasi

Giovanna Borasi is an architect, editor, and curator. She joined the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in 2005 and has been the director of the CCA since January 2020. Borasi’s work explores alternative ways of practicing and evaluating architecture, considering the impact of contemporary environmental, political, and social issues on urbanism and the built environment. She studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, worked as an editor of Lotus International (1998–2005) and Lotus Navigator (2000–04) and was the deputy editor in chief of Abitare (2011–13). One of Borasi’s latest curatorial projects is a three-part documentary film series that reconsiders architecture’s relationship to and understanding of home and homelessness, living alone, and the elderly. The first film What It Takes to Make a Home (2019) screened at film festivals and institutions worldwide.

Books by Giovanna Borasi

Who's Next

Homelessness, Architecture and Cities

edited by Daniel Talesnik & Andres Lepik
introduction by Leilani Farha
text by Binyamin Appelbaum, Juliane Bischoff, João Bittar Fiammenghi, Giovanna Borasi, Helena Čapková, James Carse, Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Alejandra Celedon, Clara Chahin Werneck, Tatiana Efrussi, Maria Esnaola Cano, Fraya Frehse, Jocelyn Froimovich, Erez Golani Solomon, Samia Henni, Aya Maceda, David Madden, Don Mitchell, Stephen Przybylinski, Trude Renwick, Valentina Rozas-Krause, Aditya Sawant, Luisa Schneider, Nicolas Stutzin, Elena Vogman & Zairong Xiang

Perspectives de vie à Londres et Tokyo

by (author) Stephen Taylor & Ryue Nishizawa
edited by Giovanna Borasi

Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo

by (author) Stephen Taylor & Ryue Nishizawa
edited by Giovanna Borasi

Désolé, plus d'essence

L'Innovation architecturale en réponse à la crise pétrolière de 1973

edited by Giovanna Borasi & Mirko Zardini

Sorry, Out of Gas

Architecture's Response to the 1973 Oil Crisis

edited by Giovanna Borasi & Mirko Zardini

Trajets

Comment la mobilité des fruits, des idées et des architectures recompose notres environnement

edited by Giovanna Borasi

Journeys

How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment

edited by Giovanna Borasi