Archinect - Features 2024-12-03T13:50:20-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150185912/curating-development-carson-chan-on-forming-community-through-building-groups Curating Development: Carson Chan on Forming Community Through Building Groups Nicholas Korody 2020-03-01T07:00:00-05:00 >2020-03-01T03:04:43-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8f/8f1a367ab15876fb5b048c942160a87b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Although trained as an architect, <a href="http://www.carsonchan.net/" target="_blank">Carson Chan</a> is mostly known for his work as a curator and writer. In 2006, after working for <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/704/barkow-leibinger" target="_blank">Barkow Leibinger Architects</a> and the Neue Nationalgalerie's architecture exhibitions department in Berlin, he founded <a href="http://www.carsonchan.net/program.html" target="_blank">PROGRAM</a>, a non-commercial initiative for art and architecture collaborations. Since then, he has worked on more than thirty international exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture, notably including the 4th Marrakech Biennale in 2012 and the Biennial of the Americas in Denver in 2013. Meanwhile, Chan has written for a wide range of publications across the fields of art, architecture, and contemporary culture, and serves as the Editor-at-Large of <a href="https://032c.com/" target="_blank"><em>032c</em></a><em></em>&mdash;all while pursuing his doctorate in architecture at <a href="https://archinect.com/princetonsoa" target="_blank">Princeton University</a>, researching the rise of environmentalism and aquarium architecture in postwar United States.</p>