Scenographies of Power: From the state of exception to the space of exception

Maite Borjabad is a Spanish architect, curator and researcher who currently works between New York and Chicago and whose practice emerges at the intersection of architecture and diverse forms of artistic spatial practice. Trained as an architect at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2013), she graduated from Columbia University with a M.S. in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (2014-2016). Since January 2017, she is the curator of contemporary architecture at the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is working on two major exhibitions that will open this fall, at the same time that she is responsible for growing the collection of contemporary architecture at the museum. She has developed her activity as independent curator, conducting exhibitions, researches, symposia and events of diverse nature collaborating with institutions in New York such as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015, 2016), New Museum Inc. (2015), Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery - Columbia University (2014-2015) and Emily Harvey Foundation (2015 - present) where she is currently curating a project on architecture and performance. As a scholar she has been involved with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2014), Barnard College - Columbia University (2015) and currently combines her work at the Art Institute of Chicago with her teaching activity as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Advance Design Studio at the "Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation - GSAPP“ at Columbia University.