Ignacio G. Galán is an architect, historian, and educator at Barnard College, Columbia University. His work is concerned with the ways in which architecture participates in the articulation of societies—attending to questions of residence, nationalism, migration, and disability cultures.
His scholarship has been published in JSAH, JDH, JAE, and modernism+modernity and the volumes Italian Imprints and Architectures of Care, amongst others. He is a co-editor of the volumes Radical Pedagogies (2022) and After Belonging (2016) and his monograph Furnishing Fascism is forthcoming (University of Minnesota Press).
His work has been exhibited at the international selection of the Venice Biennale (2014 and 2021) and the Center for Architecture (2022) amongst other venues; has been featured in major platforms including Architectural Record and Domus; has received awards by ACSA, Dezeen, and AN; and is part of the permanent collection of the Pompidou Center.
Galán spent his time at MacDowell reading and writing about architecture, kinship, care, and belonging. He worked on the introduction for a forthcoming book, Architecture's Kinships, to be published by ACTAR in 2025. Some of his collaborative projects to be included in this book, along with commissioned essays, comprise "Your Restroom is a Battleground," which was developed for the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021) and has been recently shown in the exhibitions "Wet Dreams" (Centro Centro, Madrid, 2024) and "Entourage" (MAK Center, Los Angeles, 2024); as well as "Aging Against the Machine," which was developed for the exhibition "Reset: Towards a New Commons" (Center for Architecture, New York, 2022) and recently received the Faculty Design Award by the ACSA (2024).
