Giovanna Borasi studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Her exhibitions and publications have drawn particular attention to alternative ways of practicing and evaluating architecture, and the influence of social and political issues on urbanism and the built environment. After working as an editor for Lotus International (1998–2005) and Lotus Navigator (2000–04), Borasi was appointed Deputy Editor in Chief of Abitare (2011–13). Before joining the CCA, she co-curated House Sweet Home, Different Ways to Live at Spazio Ventisette, Milan (2000), and collaborated with Mirko Zardini on two others: Asfalto: Il carattere della città at the Milan Triennale (2003) and Notizie dall’Interno for the Italian Pavilion in the 9th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2004). Borasi worked as Curator for Contemporary Architecture at CCA (2005–10), and in 2014 was named Chief Curator. Her exhibition and publication projects include Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow: Gilles Clement / Philippe Rahm (2006), four projects co-curated with Mirko Zardini, 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas (2007), Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture (2011), and Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli (2010), as well as her projects Some Ideas of Living in London and Tokyo: Ryue Nishizawa and Stephen Taylor (2008), Journeys: How Travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment (2011), The Other Architect / Another Way of Building Architecture (2016), Besides History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen (2017), and Scripts for a new world. Film Storyboards by Alessandro Poli (2019). In 2015, her Out of the Box: Ábalos & Herreros picked up and expanded the provocative 'out of the box' exhibition concept in a new direction, inviting three teams of architects to consider this archive from their quite different points of view in a series of three small exhibitions presented in sequence. In 2018, Borasi initiated a series of short documentary films about future urban challenges with What It Takes to Make a Home, which focuses on homelessness; it will première at the Architecture and Design Film Festival, New York, in October 2019. Borasi has published widely in journals such as ARCH+, Domus, 2G, Cartha, Harvard Design Magazine, e-flux, and PLOT.
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