British writer and curator Justin McGuirk – a regular columnist for Dezeen – is joining London’s Design and style Museum as chief curator this month.
McGuirk will put in location the exhibition programme set to run soon after the museum relocates to west London next 12 months.
“The submit will see McGuirk shape the museum’s imaginative articles across every single department as a member of its exhibitions group,” explained a statement from the Design Museum.
“He will play a important part in the but to be announced opening programme for the Style Museum’s new residence in Kensington, due to open in late 2016.”
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The museum has also appointed Tom Wilson as head of collection and study, who will start in September to lead the advancement and implementation of the collection, library and archive for the new museum.
Based mostly in London, McGuirk is former editor of Icon magazine and director of Strelka Press. In 2012 he was element of the crew that won the Golden Lion for the greatest undertaking at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Earlier this yr, he spoke out about the need for a new generation of critics and curators when he was named head of the creating and curating programme at Layout Academy Eindhoven.
At the moment based mostly on Shad Thames, the Style Museum is set to move into its new area in the former Commonwealth Institute constructing next year.
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The refurbishment by John Pawson involves galleries for long lasting and temporary exhibition spaces, an auditorium and a library beneath the hyperbolic paraboloid roof construction of the 1960s creating.
Its present Thames-side property, which is now hosting this year’s Designs of the Year exhibition, has been bought by Zaha Hadid Architects to residence architecture shows and the London studio’s assortment of models.
