About

Dan Handel is a curator and writer whose work focuses on research-based projects with special attention to underexplored ideas, figures, and practices that shape contemporary built environments.

He was the inaugural Young Curator at the at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, has developed exhibitions for the Venice Biennale and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and was curator of architecture and design at the Israel Museum. More recently, he curated the exhibition The Design of Carpets that Design Us at the CCA.

Handel holds an MArch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a PhD from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

His writing has appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, e-flux Architecture, Thresholds, Frame, San Rocco, Pin-Up, Bracket, and the Journal of Landscape Architecture (JOLA), among others. He is the editor of the publications Aircraft Carrier (Hajte Cantz, 2012), Yasky and Co. (Tel Aviv Museum. 2016), and Manifest, a journal of the Americas

He is the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation for Manifest (2012, 2014, 2022) and Carpet Space (2019).