Kate Goodwin is an independent architecture curator, critic and educator. She works with architects, artists and cultural institutions on experience and place making. She is a founder of the platform ‘Architecture Amplified’, a member of the Tin Sheds Gallery Advisory Board, Adjunct Professor and former Professor of Practice (2020-23) at the University of Sydney. She is a recipient of a Byera Hadley Travel Fellowship, studying the architecture of Aboriginal art centres in the Northern Territory.
For 17 years as Heinz Curator and Head of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, she directed the public-facing activities that promote a broad engagement with architecture. She has commissioned artists and architects, directed arts festivals and curated numerous exhibitions including the ground-breaking Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined (2014), Inside Heatherwick Studio (2015-2016), and Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings (2018). She was a member of the Golden Lion Jury for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and awarded a RIBA Honorary Fellowship in 2016.
