Maite Borjabad López-Pastor
Maite Borjabad López-Pastor is the Neville Bryan Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her recent exhibitions include My Building, Your Design: Seven Portraits by David Hartt (2018), Designs for Different Futures, co-curated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center (2019–2021) and Past Forward (2017–ongoing) with Alison Fisher and Zoë Ryan. Her work has led to milestone acquisitions for Architecture & Design, such as Andrés Jaque’s PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (2019). Upcoming projects include an exhibition with artist duo Basel and Ruanne (July 2021).
Before joining the Art Institute in 2017, Maite worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. As an independent curator she has developed projects with diverse institutions, including the exhibition and book Scenographies of Power: From the State of Exception to the Spaces of Exception (2017) at La Casa Encendida (Madrid).
She is currently a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and has previously taught at Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Maite’s writing has appeared in renowned journals including Harvard Design Magazine, and her work has been celebrated in major media such as the New York Times, PIN-UP Magazine, Domus, Artforum, La Tempestad, and El Cultural. She holds bachelor’s master’s degrees in architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a master’s degree in critical, curatorial and conceptual practices in architecture from Columbia University.
