MAXXI Architecture and Contemporary Design Director
Lorenza Baroncelli is an Italian architect. She is Director of the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Design at MAXXI in Rome and teaches in the Master of Art Management at Luiss Business School. She served as Artistic Director of Triennale di Milano (2018–2022), leading major institutional, curatorial, and fundraising initiatives, including the launch of the Italian Design Museum and the XXII International Exhibition Broken Nature.
From 2015 to 2018, she was City Councilor for Urban Regeneration in Mantua, overseeing strategic urban and cultural development projects. Between 2015 and 2016, she was Associate for Special Projects at Serpentine Galleries in London, coordinating the architecture program. In 2014, she co-curated the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale with Hans Ulrich Obrist. She has also collaborated with Stefano Boeri and co-directed Giancarlo Mazzanti’s studio in Colombia. Her writings appear in leading international publications such as Domus Magazine, Abitare, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times.
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