California: Designing Freedom

About Brendan McGetrickJustin McGuirk

Justin McGuirk is a writer and curator based in London. He is the chief curator at the Design Museum and the head of Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. He has been the director of Strelka Press the design critic of The Guardian and the editor of Icon magazine. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank. His book Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture is published by Verso. Brendan McGetrick is an independent writer editor and designer. His work has appeared in publications in over twenty countries including Wired Art Review Domus and Vogue Nippon. His projects include the books MAD Dinner (Actar) Urban China: Work In Progress (Timezone 8) and Who is Architecture? (Domus/Timezone 8). In 2011 he curated Unnamed Design a component of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale in collaboration with Ai Weiwei. In 2014 he co-curated Fair Enough in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. From 2002 to 2006 he was head writer at the research studio AMO.