Elias Redstone is Senior Curator at The Architecture Foundation (AF), a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture. Achievements in this position include launching the AF’s international programme, re-instating the exhibition programme in London and delivering collaborative projects with partners including Barbican, Southbank Centre, Tate Modern and Design Museum. He initiated and curated two temporary galleries for the AF (Yard Gallery, 2005-2007; Closet Gallery, 2008) and the south London hub of the London Festival of Architecture hub in 2008. His first installation, Hairywood by 6a Architects and Eley Kishimoto, won a D&AD yellow pencil and was reconstructed in Covent Garden piazza in 2008. International projects include participation in the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, in collaboration with MoMA, and a series of exchange programmes between emerging architects in the UK and abroad.
Elias is a committee member of the London Festival of Architecture and currently acts as Consultant Curator for the International Architecture Showcase in 2010. He co-founded the online London Architecture Diary and writes the London Underground column for the New York Times style blog. In 2008 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research the new generation of architects working in Latin America.
This website presents a selection of cross-disciplinary exhibitions along with other projects that critically explore architecture and the built environment. He has also produced several events for The Architecture Foundation including lectures by emerging and internationally-renowned architects, the first public presentation of the London 2012 masterplan and a debate with London's mayoral candidates in 2004.
Elias received a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research the new generation of architects in Latin America.
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